Frosta

Frosta, the smallest municipality in the county of Nord-Tr?ndelag, Norway, is located in the middle of the Trondheimsfjord, on a peninsula just north of Trondheim.

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Norway's oldest court, Frostating, had its seat here, close to the mediaeval church at Logtun. On the island of Tautra can be found the remains of a Cistercian abbey, established in 1207. Several rock engraving sites can be found in the parish, together with burial mounds from Viking times.

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Agriculture makes up the largest business in Frosta.

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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...

Nord-Tr?ndelag: Nord-Tr?ndelag is a county in the area Tr?ndelag in Norway, bordering Nordland in north and S?r-Tr?ndelag in south. The county administration is in Steinkjer, a city with 20,527 inhabitants (2005)....