Asker

Asker is a municipality in the county of Akershus, Norway and a suburb of Oslo.

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Main parts are Asker, Gullhella, Vollen, Vettre, Blakstad, Holmen, Hvalstad, Nes?ya, Nesbru and Heggedal. Asker is a notably coastal place with many beautiful beaches, but is also a place of hills and woods. The district is known for many important businesses. It is also known for gardening. The farm Skaugum, in which the Norwegian Crown Prince and his family live, is situated here. The first IKEA store outside of Sweden opened in Asker in 1963.

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Principally a rural municipality, however expansion of Oslo has resulted in it becoming an affluent suburb. Thus numerous celebrities now reside in the area.

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Asker is also the home of Frisk Asker Tigers, who won the Norwegian Hockey championship in 2002. Asker Skiklubb is a nationally well known sports club. It has a long history dateing back to 1889. Many of Askers famous people have been successfull indivuals associated with the sports club.

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Asker, more notably Blakstad, was a stronghold for the Baglers, whom contended with the Birkebeiners during a Civil War during the Viking period.

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Municipality: A municipality or "general-purpose district" (compare with: "special-purpose district") is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a city, town, or village government....

County: Originally, in continental Europe, a county was the land under the jurisdiction of a count. Counts are called "earls" in post-Celtic Great Britain and Ireland - the term is from Old Norse jarl and was introduced by the Vikings - but there is no correlation between "county" and "earldom." Rather, t...

Akershus: Akershus is a county in Norway, bordering Hedmark, Oppland, Buskerud, Oslo and ?stfold. It borders Sweden for a short distance (V?rmland). Akershus is the second largest county in population after Oslo. The county is named after Akershus Fortress. The county administration is in Oslo, which is not p...

Asker related Images and Photos (experimental)

Portrait of Asker-Khan Ambassador of Persia in Paris in 1808 1809