Until 1 January 2007, Børkop municipality was a municipality (Danish

Danish language

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, kommune) in Vejle County

Vejle County

Vejle Amt is a former county on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula in southern Denmark. The county was abolished effective January 1, 2007, when it was divided between Region Midtjylland and Region of Southern Denmark...

 on the east coast of the Jutland

Jutland

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 peninsula in southeast Denmark

Denmark

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. The municipality covered an area of 103 km², and had a total population of 11,478 (2005). Its last mayor was Leif Skov, a member of the Social Democrats

Social Democrats (Denmark)

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 (Socialdemokraterne) political party

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.

The main town and the site of its municipal council was the town of Børkop, which is located approximately halfway between the cities of Vejle

Vejle

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 and Fredericia

Fredericia

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.

The municipality was created in 1970 due to a kommunalreform ("Municipality Reform") that combined the following parish

Parish

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es: Gauerslund, Gårslev, Skærup, and Smidstrup parishes.

Børkop municipality ceased to exist as the result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipality Reform" of 2007). It was merged with Egtved

Egtved municipality

Until 1 January 2007, Egtved municipality was a municipality in Vejle County on the Jutland peninsula in southeast Denmark. The municipality covered an area of 325 km², and had a total population of 15,302 . Its last mayor was Sonny Berthold, a member of the Venstre political party...

, Give

Give municipality

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, Jelling

Jelling municipality

Until 1 January 2007 Jelling municipality was a municipality in Vejle County on the Jutland peninsula in south-west Denmark. The municipality covered an area of 89 km², and had a total population of 5,697 . Its last mayor was Arne H. Sigtenbjerggaard, a member of the Venstre political party...

, and Vejle

Vejle municipality

Vejle Municipality is a municipality in Region of Southern Denmark on the Jutland peninsula in southeast Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 1,055 km², and has a total population of 106,383...

 municipalities to form a new Vejle municipality. This created a municipality with an area of 1,055 km² and a total population of 82,935 (2005). The new municipality belongs to Region of Southern Denmark.