Aurskog is a former municipality in Akershus

Akershus

- Geography :The county is conventionally divided into the traditional districts Follo and Romerike, which fill the vast part of the county, as well as the small exclave west of Oslo that consists of Asker and Bærum...

 county, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. The administrative centre was Aursmoen

Aursmoen

Aursmoen is a village in the municipality of Aurskog-Høland, Norway. Its population is 2,318....

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Aurskog was the location of the Battle of Toverud. The parish of Urskog was established as a municipality January 1, 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt

Formannskapsdistrikt

Formannskapsdistrikt was the name for a Norwegian local self-government districts put into force in 1838. This system of municipality was created in a bill approved by the Storting and signed into law by King Carl Johan on 14 January 1837...

). On 1 July 1919 the district of Blaker

Blaker

Blaker is a village and a former municipality of Akershus county, Norway.-History:The municipality was established on 1 July 1919, when Aurskog was split in two. At the time of establishment, Blaker had a population of 2,533...

 was separated to form a municipality of its own. The split left Aurskog with a population of 3.102.

On 1 January 1966 Aurskog was merged with Nordre Høland

Nordre Høland

Nordre Høland is a former municipality in Akershus county, Norway.It was created when Høland municipality was split in two on 1 July 1924. At that time Nordre Høland had a population of 3.188....

, Søndre Høland

Søndre Høland

Søndre Høland is a former municipality in Akershus county, Norway.It was created when Høland municipality was split in two on 1 July 1924. At that time Søndre Høland had a population of 2.106....

 and Setskog

Setskog

Setskog is a former municipality in Akershus county, Norway. It bordered Østfold county to the south, Hedmark county to the north and Sweden to the east.It was created by a split from Høland municipality on 1 January 1905...

 to form the new municipality Aurskog-Høland

Aurskog-Høland

Aurskog-Høland is a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. It is part of the Romerike traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Bjørkelangen.- Name :...

. Prior to the merger Aurskog had a population of 3.129.

The name

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old farm Ør (Norse Aurr 'gravel'), since the first church was built here. The last element is skog (Norse skógr) 'wood' - and the meaning of the full name is 'the woods around the farm Aurr'. Until 1918 the name was written "Urskog".