Drammen

Drammen is a city and municipality in the county of Buskerud, Norway.

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Rock carvings at ?skollen and Skogerveien are 6000 to 7000 years old, and are the first signs of human activity in the area. The largest rock carving at ?skollen depicts a moose.

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In 1909, Drammen got the first trolleybus system in Scandinavia. The lines ran until 1967.

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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...

Buskerud: Buskerud is a county in Norway, bordering Akershus, Oslo, Oppland, Sogn og Fjordane, Hordaland, Telemark, and Vestfold. The county administration is located in Drammen....