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 of Norway, the landskaps of Sweden and Finland, the shires of England and Scotland, and the Gaue of the Holy Roman Empire. A syssel was subdivided into a number of hundreds or herreder.
The name still can be found in the Danish district of Vendsyssel, as well as in a governmental title, sýslumenn, in Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and Svalbard.
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...
also known as Congo-Kinshasa. also known as Congo-Brazzaville. or Danish:syssel. "Húsar fara undir Klaksvík". KVF.fo (in Faroese). 25 February 2016. Retrieved...
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...
/ 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...
Language Council recommends Sysselmannen ('governor') be renamed Svalbard Syssel ('country subdivision') to meet gender-neutral requirement". Ice People...
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'...
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...
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...
in their delimitations, while others are based on ancient hundreds and syssels with fixed borders. Dialect, folklore and local identity will or would...
Hardsyssel or Harsyssel is a traditional district and an ancient syssel in Denmark, forming the western part of central Jutland. Hardsyssel is roughly...
In 1200, the current Upper Telemark and Grenland were merged into Skiens syssel, which later became Bratsbergs amt, and then later it was renamed Telemark...
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