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Historical region in Northern Denmark
1710 map of Northern Jutland, depicting the borders of the dioceses of Aalborg (in blue), Aarhus (red), Viborg (yellow), and Ribe (green).
Northern Jutland
(
Danish
:
Nørrejylland
) is a historical region in Denmark, defined as
Jutland
north of the
Kongea
(with the region south of the Kongea called
Southern Jutland
(
Sønderjylland
)). As with other historical regions of Denmark, Northern Jutland had its own
ting assembly
in the
Middle Ages
, seated in
Viborg
.
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Today, Northern Jutland is covered by the regions of
North Jutland
and
Central Jutland
(except for
Samsø
[a]
), and the northern parts of the
Region of Southern Denmark
.
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Samsø
was historically grouped with
Zealand
, and was thus not included in Northern Jutland. Samsø was moved into the new
Aarhus County
in 1970, and that county was merged with neighboring areas to become the Central Jutland region in 2007. For this reason, everything in Central Jutland except for Samsø is part of the historical Northern Jutland.
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