Å or Å Sentrum is a village in the municipality of

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county,

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. It lies along the

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, about north of the border with the municipality of

Rennebu Rennebu is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Orkdalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Berkåk, located along European route E6. The majority of the population lives in the vill ...

. Å, has the postal address 7335 Jerpstad, to distinguish it from other places named Å.

Agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to ...

is one of the village's most important industries. A person named Jo Aa, who died in the 1990s, lived in the village of Å, and he had the shortest name in Norway.

Name

The village (originally a farm) is first mentioned around 1435 "af Aam" (

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). The name is from the

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''Ár'', the plural of ''á'', meaning "(small) river". The name refers to the fact that the farm is lying between two rivers: the

and Reisa River. Until 1917, Å was spelled ''Aa''.

References

Orkland Villages in Trøndelag {{Trøndelag-geo-stub