Glåmos is a mountain village in

Røros Røros ( sma, Plaassja, ) is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Røros. Some of the villages in Røros include Brekken, Glåmos, Feragen, Galåa, and Hitterdalen. The minin ...

municipality in

Trøndelag Trøndelag (; sma, Trööndelage) is a county in the central part of Norway. It was created in 1687, then named Trondhjem County ( no, Trondhjems Amt); in 1804 the county was split into Nord-Trøndelag and Sør-Trøndelag by the King of Denmar ...

county,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

. The village is located along the river

Glåma The Glomma, or Glåma, is Norway's longest and most voluminous river. With a total length of , it has a drainage basin that covers fully 13% of Norway's surface area, all in the southern part of the country. Geography At its fullest length, the ...

, just west of the lake

Aursunden Aursunden or Aursund is a lake in the municipality of Røros in Trøndelag county, Norway. The village of Brekken lies along the eastern shore and the village of Glåmos lies along the western shore. There are several inflows to the lake includ ...

, and about north of the town of Røros. It is the location of the

Glåmos Church Glåmos Church ( no, Glåmos kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in the municipality of Røros, Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the village of Glåmos. It is the church for the Glåmos parish which is part of the Gauldal ...

and the

Glåmos Station Glåmos is a mountain village in Røros municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The village is located along the river Glåma, just west of the lake Aursunden, and about north of the town of Røros. It is the location of the Glåmos Churc ...

which sits along the Rørosbanen railway. The village was the

administrative centre An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located. In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, Lu ...

of the old municipality of

Glåmos Glåmos is a mountain village in Røros municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The village is located along the river Glåma, just west of the lake Aursunden, and about north of the town of Røros. It is the location of the Glåmos Churc ...

which existed from 1926 until 1964. In 2001, the village had about 300 residents. The village has several old

copper mine Copper extraction refers to the methods used to obtain copper from its ores. The conversion of copper consists of a series of physical and electrochemical processes. Methods have evolved and vary with country depending on the ore source, loca ...

s located nearby that used to supply the

Røros Copper Works The Røros Copper Works at Røros in Trøndelag, Norway operated from 1644 to 1977. Privileges from the Crown were given in 1647, including rights to forests and water resources within a circle of diameter 90 kilometers. The local farmers were give ...

in the town of Røros.

Name

The first element of the name is the name of the river

and the last element is ''os'' meaning the "starting point of a river". The river Glåma is considered to start near here at the end of the lake

References

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