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Ledøje-Smørum
Until 1 January 2007 Ledøje-Smørum was a municipality ( Danish, '' kommune'') in Copenhagen County on Zealand (''Sjælland'') island in eastern Denmark, then merged into Egedal. The municipality covered an area of and had a total population of 10,525 (2005), northwest of nearby Copenhagen. History The last mayor of Ledøje-Smørum was Jens Jørgen Nygaard, a member of the Conservative People's Party (''Det Konservative Folkeparti'') political party. The main town and the site of its municipal council was the town of Smørum. The municipality had been created in 1970 as the result of a ("Municipality Reform") that merged a number of existing parishes: * Ledøje Parish * Smørum Parish. Ledøje-Smørum municipality ceased to exist as the result of ''Kommunalreformen'' ("The Municipality Reform" of 2007). It was merged with Stenløse and Ølstykke municipalities to form the new Egedal municipality. This created a municipality with an area of and a total population of 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Copenhagen (county)
Copenhagen County () is a former county ('' amt'') on the island of Zealand (''Sjælland'') in eastern Denmark. It covered the municipalities in the metropolitan Copenhagen area, with the exception of Copenhagen and Frederiksberg. Effective January 1, 2007, the county was abolished and merged into Region Hovedstaden (i.e. ''Copenhagen Capital Region''). The county was seated in Glostrup (from 1 January 1993; between 1952 and 1992 the county administration was located on Blegdamsvej in Copenhagen Municipality, which was surrounded by, but not part of the county). List of County Mayors Municipalities (1970-2006) *Albertslund *Ballerup * Brøndby *Dragør *Gentofte *Gladsaxe *Glostrup *Herlev *Hvidovre * Høje-Taastrup *Ishøj *Ledøje-Smørum * Lyngby-Taarbæk *Rødovre *Søllerød *Tårnby * Vallensbæk *Værløse Værløse () is a town in Furesø Municipality in the northwestern outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark. As of 1 January 2025, it has a population of 13,200. Situate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egedal
Egedal Municipality () is a municipality ( Danish, '' kommune'') in Region Hovedstaden in Denmark. It covers an area of with a total population of 45,563 (1. January 2025). History On 1 January 2007 Egedal municipality was created as the result of ''Kommunalreformen'' ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007), consisting of the former municipalities of Ledøje-Smørum (Copenhagen County), Ølstykke (Frederiksborg County), and Stenløse (Frederiksborg County Frederiksborg County () is a former county ( Danish: '' amt'') in the north of the island of Zealand in eastern Denmark. Effective January 1, 2007, the county was abolished and merged into Region Hovedstaden The Capital Region of Denmark (, ...). Settlements Politics Municipal council Egedal's municipal council consists of 21 members, elected every four years. Below are the municipal councils elected since the Municipal Reform of 2007. References * Municipal statisticsNetBorger Kommunefakta delivered froKMDak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egedal Municipality
Egedal Municipality () is a municipality (Danish language, Danish, ''Commune (subnational entity), kommune'') in Region Hovedstaden in Denmark. It covers an area of with a total population of 45,563 (1. January 2025). History On 1 January 2007 Egedal municipality was created as the result of Municipalities of Denmark#Municipal Reform 2007, ''Kommunalreformen'' ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007), consisting of the former municipalities of Ledøje-Smørum (Copenhagen County), Ølstykke Municipality, Ølstykke (Frederiksborg County), and Stenløse Municipality, Stenløse (Frederiksborg County). Settlements Politics Municipal council Egedal's municipal council consists of 21 members, elected every four years. Below are the municipal councils elected since the Municipalities of Denmark#Municipal Reform 2007, Municipal Reform of 2007. References * Municipal statisticsNetBorger Kommunefakta delivered froKMDaka Kommunedata (Municipal Data) * Municipal mergers and neighborsEni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danish Language
Danish (, ; , ) is a North Germanic languages, North Germanic language from the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family spoken by about six million people, principally in and around Denmark. Communities of Danish speakers are also found in Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and the northern Germany, German region of Southern Schleswig, where it has minority language status. Minor Danish-speaking communities are also found in Norway, Sweden, the United States, Canada, Brazil, and Argentina. Along with the other North Germanic languages, Danish is a descendant of Old Norse, the common language of the Germanic peoples who lived in Scandinavia during the Viking Age, Viking Era. Danish, together with Swedish, derives from the ''East Norse'' dialect group, while the Middle Norwegian language (before the influence of Danish) and Bokmål, Norwegian Bokmål are classified as ''West Norse'' along with Faroese language, Faroese and Icelandic language, Icelandic. A more recent c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipalities Of Denmark
Denmark is divided into five regions of Denmark, regions, which contain 98 municipalities (, ; , ). The Capital Region of Denmark, Capital Region has 29 municipalities, Region of Southern Denmark, Southern Denmark 22, Central Denmark Region, Central Denmark 19, Region Zealand, Zealand 17 and North Denmark Region, North Denmark 11. The government intends to merge R. Hovedstaden with R. Sjælland 1 January 2027 to form Region Østdanmark (Region of Eastern Denmark). The regional council will have 47 members, and will be elected Tuesday 18 November 2025 in the ordinary 2025 Danish local elections. This structure was established per an administrative reform (Danish: ''Strukturreformen''; English: (''The'') ''Structural Reform'') of the public sector of Denmark, effective 26 June 2005 (council elections 15 November 2005), which abolished the 13 Counties of Denmark, counties (; singular ) and created five Regions of Denmark, regions (; singular ) which unlike the counties (1970–2006 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zealand (Denmark)
Zealand ( ) is the largest and most populous islands of Denmark, island in Denmark proper (thus excluding Greenland and Disko Island, which are larger in size) at 7,031 km2 (2715 sq. mi.). Zealand had a population of 2,319,705 on 1 January 2020, comprising 40% of the country's population. Zealand is the List of European islands by area, 13th-largest island in Europe by area and the List of European islands by population, 4th most populous. It is connected to Sprogø and Funen by the Great Belt Fixed Link and to Amager by several bridges in Copenhagen. Indirectly, through the island of Amager and the Øresund Bridge, it is also linked to Scania in Sweden. In the south, the Storstrøm Bridge and the Farø Bridges connect it to Falster, and beyond that island to Lolland, from where the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel to Germany is planned. Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, with a population between 1.3 and 1.4 million people in 2020, is located mostly on the eastern shore of Zeala ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denmark
Denmark is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark,, . also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the Autonomous administrative division, autonomous territories of the Faroe Islands and Greenland in the north Atlantic Ocean.* * * Metropolitan Denmark, also called "continental Denmark" or "Denmark proper", consists of the northern Jutland peninsula and an archipelago of 406 islands. It is the southernmost of the Scandinavian countries, lying southwest of Sweden, south of Norway, and north of Germany, with which it shares a short border. Denmark proper is situated between the North Sea to the west and the Baltic Sea to the east.The island of Bornholm is offset to the east of the rest of the country, in the Baltic Sea. The Kingdom of Denmark, including the Faroe Islands and Greenland, has roughly List of islands of Denmark, 1,400 islands greater than in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Copenhagen
Copenhagen ( ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the Urban area of Copenhagen, urban area. The city is situated on the islands of Zealand and Amager, separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the Øresund strait. The Øresund Bridge connects the two cities by rail and road. Originally a Vikings, Viking fishing village established in the 10th century in the vicinity of what is now Gammel Strand, Copenhagen became the capital of Denmark in the early 15th century. During the 16th century, the city served as the ''de facto'' capital of the Kalmar Union and the seat of the Union's monarchy, which governed most of the modern-day Nordic countries, Nordic region as part of a Danish confederation with Sweden and Norway. The city flourished as the cultural and economic centre of Scandinavia during the Renaissance. By the 17th century, it had become a regional centre of power, serving as the heart of the Danish government and Military history ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conservative People's Party (Denmark)
The Conservative People's Party (, DKF), also known as The Conservatives () is a Centre-right politics, centre-right List of political parties in Denmark, political party in Denmark. The party is a member of the International Democracy Union and the European People's Party. History The party was founded in 1916 based mostly on its predecessor, ''Højre'' ("Right") after its downfall, but also on the Free Conservatives and a moderate faction of the liberal party Venstre (Denmark), ''Venstre'' ("Left"). The party was a part of the coalition government during Denmark in World War II, World War II, where the leader John Christmas Møller provided the voice for BBC London's daily radio to Denmark. However, while a number of conservatives participated in the resistance movement, some conservatives were sympathetic to Fascism, fascist ideology, and the Young Conservatives (Denmark), youth wing of the party praised several fascist movements in Europe during the 1930s. Since World Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Politics Of Denmark
The politics of Denmark take place within the framework of a parliamentary representative democracy, a constitutional monarchy and a decentralised unitary state in which the monarch of Denmark, King Frederik X, is the head of state. Denmark is a nation state. Danish politics and governance are characterized by a common striving for broad consensus on important issues, within both the political community and society as a whole. Executive power is exercised by the cabinet of Denmark (commonly known as "the Government", Danish: ), presided over by the Prime Minister () who is first among equals. Legislative power is exercised by the Folketing, the unicameral parliament, and secondarily by the Cabinet, although it is common that members of the Folketing are also members of the Cabinet. Members of the judiciary are nominated by the executive (conventionally by recommendation of the judiciary itself), formally appointed by the monarch and employed until retirement. Denmark ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parish
A parish is a territorial entity in many Christianity, Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest#Christianity, priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or more curates, and who operates from a parish church. Historically, a parish often covered the same geographical area as a Manorialism, manor. Its association with the parish church remains paramount. By extension the term ''parish'' refers not only to the territorial entity but to the people of its community or congregation as well as to church property within it. In England this church property was technically in ownership of the parish priest ''Ex officio member, ex officio'', vested in him on his institution to that parish. Etymology and use First attested in English in the late 13th century, the word ''parish'' comes from the Old French , in turn from , the Romanization of Greek, Romanisation of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
