A syssel is a historical type of country subdivision in Denmark and elsewhere in Scandinavia. The mediaeval Danish sysler may be compared to the fylker...

several syssel. The head of the syssel was the syslemann, who represented the king locally. The following shows a reconstruction of the different syssel in...

ethnic name wændlar, Danish vendelboer, which is part of the name of the syssel. In the Danish Census Book (Kong Valdemars Jordebog, ca. 1231) Wændlesysæl...

was divided into herreder, shown outlined in red. Coloured areas show Jutland's syssel divisions. Zealand's four ecclesiastic sysler are not included....

15°33′0″E / 77.00000°N 15.55000°E / 77.00000; 15.55000 Country Norway Syssel Svalbard island Spitsbergen Population  • Total 12 Time zone UTC+2 (CET)...

autonomous territories: Faroe Islands 7 regions (Faroese: sýsla; Danish: syssel) 29 municipalities (kommunur) Greenland 5 municipalities (kommuner) 1 national...

Language Council recommends Sysselmannen ('governor') be renamed Svalbard Syssel ('country subdivision') to meet gender-neutral requirement". Ice People...

10°59′42″E / 79.73167°N 10.99500°E / 79.73167; 10.99500 Country  Norway Syssel Svalbard Island Spitsbergen Settled 1619 Closure 1657 Population  • Total...

Islands, and formerly in Denmark and Norway. For the historical entity see: syssel. Norðoyar Eysturoy Streymoy Vágar Sandoy Suðuroy Árnessýsla Austur-Barðastrandarsýsla...

flood in 1862. The original Agger Channel filled up with sand in 1877. The syssel was a medieval sub-division which is regarded as the oldest type of administrative...

was divided into herreder, shown outlined in red. Coloured areas show Jutland's syssel divisions. Zealand's four ecclesiastic sysler are not included....

into syssel divisions (Danish: syssel, plural: sysler), each composed of a number of herreder, which in turn were subdivided into parishes. The syssel division...

Language Council recommends Sysselmannen ('governor') be renamed Svalbard Syssel ('country subdivision') to meet gender-neutral requirement". Ice People...

/ 78.06667°N 14.21667°E / 78.06667; 14.21667 Sovereign state  Norway Syssel Svalbard Island Spitsbergen Population  (2020)  • Total 455 Time zone UTC+1...

established in Jutland, where they replaced previous administrative units called syssel. According to some scholars, they were introduced in Skåneland possibly...

for Hjørring. Throughout the Middle Ages, the thing (assembly) for the syssel of Vendsyssel met in Hjørring. The town also became a meeting place for...

Tromsø (in Norwegian). 11 September 1954 – via National Library of Norway. "Syssel-mannen på Svalbard" [The Sysselmann in Svalbard]. Fjell-Ljom (in Norwegian)...

divided into syssels. The area that made up Aabybro Municipality was part of the hundred Han Hundred (Danish: Han Herred) and belonged to the syssel of Thysyssel...

it was together with Hadeland, Land and Toten, a part of the county (or syssel) Haðafylki. Ringerike was in c. 1640 grouped with Hallingdal in the district...

clerk Syssel Syssel leder Syssel leader Syssel afdelingsleder Syssel department leader Syssel gruppeleder Syssel group leader Syssel fuldmægtig Syssel head...

15°06′45″E / 78.17778°N 15.11250°E / 78.17778; 15.11250 Country Norway Syssel Svalbard island Spitsbergen Population  (1961)  • Total 0 Time zone UTC+2...

under the King. herse A local chieftain. sysselmann An administrator of a syssel. Introduced in the late 12th century; displaced 'lendmann' and 'årmann'...

Hardsyssel or Harsyssel is a traditional district and an ancient syssel in Denmark, forming the western part of central Jutland. Hardsyssel is roughly...

control over a region, gained the rights to the incomes from a third of the syssels scattered across the whole of Norway. This was part of an attempt by Haakon...

 308. ISBN 9789979333609. Kålund, P. E. Kristian (1877–1882). "Hunavatns syssel (Húnavatns sýsla)". Bidrag til en historisk-topografisk beskrivelse af Island...

Census Book of King Valdemar II of 1231 mentions Thiuthæsysæl, i.e. the syssel of Thy. Thy is by some scholars thought to be the origin of the Teutons;...

municipal reform of 2007. In the Middle Ages, when Denmark was divided into syssels, Lyngby-Taarbæk was part of Østersyssel. It later became a part of Copenhagen...

had his home in Borgsyssel. He did at least own land in Romerike, Oslo syssel and in Vestfold. He was in queen Blanche of Namur's service in 1353, and...

Hallvard was a son of Jon Smør. In 1368 Hallvard owned Røken and Hurum in Oslo syssel, which Gaute Eriksen of the Galte-family had owned the year before. He later...

divided into syssels. The area that made up Pandrup Municipality was part of the hundred Han Hundred (Danish: Han Herred) and belonged to the syssel of Thysyssel...