''Øvre Smaalenene'' was a Norwegian newspaper, published in

Askim Askim () is a town and a former municipality in (from January 1, 2020) Indre Østfold Kommune in the former county of Østfold county (from January 1, 2020 a part of Viken county), Norway. The administrative centre of the Askim municipality wa ...

Østfold Østfold is a traditional region, a former county and a current electoral district in southeastern Norway. It borders Akershus and southwestern Sweden (Västra Götaland County and Värmland), while Buskerud and Vestfold are on the other side o ...

county. It was established as ''Askims Avis'' on 7 May 1902, but changed its name to ''Øvre Smaalenene'' (modern: "Upper Østfold") in 1903. The first year it was published by Ole Lingjærde and Fredrik Maseng with a

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affiliation. It was mainly politically independent after that. and in addition to Askim it also covered the municipalities of

Spydeberg Spydeberg was a municipality in former Østfold county, Norway, until December 31. 2019. At January 1. 2020 it became a part of the new and greater municipality named " Indre Østfold Kommune" after the region, together with Askim and Trøgstad an ...

Hobøl Hobøl was a municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Elvestad. Hobøl is situated about southeast of Oslo. The parish of ''Haabøl'' was established as a municipality on 1 Janu ...

and

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. Its circulation was about 3,000 in the interwar period, then 4,933 in 1950, 6,460 in 1970 and 7,061 in 1983. In 1990, it absorbed the somewhat smaller '' Østfold-Posten'', because both newspapers were bought by

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, and the circulation rose to 9,505. In 1997, it merged with the

Mysen Mysen is the administrative center of the municipality of Eidsberg in the county of Østfold in Norway. The town is named after the old farm of Mysen ( Norse ''Mysin'', from ''*Mosvin''), since the town is built on its ground. The first element i ...

-based newspaper ''Indre Smaalenenes Avis'', which continued, from 2003 under the name ''

Smaalenenes Avis ''Smaalenenes Avis'' is a local newspaper published in Askim, Norway. It covers Indre Østfold. It was established in Mysen in 1899 under the name ''Indre Smaalenenes Avis'', and covered the municipalities of Eidsberg, Trøgstad and Marker. A t ...

''. However, the newspaper was moved back to Askim.

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