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Akershus
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Follo
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Vestby
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Tom Anders Ludvigsen ( Ap )
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2003
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367
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2004
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Bokmål
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59 lat_min=34 lat_sec=30 lon_deg=10 lon_min=43 lon_sec=55
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wwwvestbykommuneno
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is a
Municipality in the
County of
Akershus ,
Norway . Main villages are Vestby, Pepperstad Skog,
Hølen ,
Hvitsten , Garder, and
Son . Son was, from the
Renaissance until the
1700s , an important harbour. On some
Dutch maps from that time, the
Oslofjord is called ''Zoon Water''.
Archaeological research in Hølen has confirmed that the area has been populated since about
2400 BC . The municipality and town of Vestby are both named after the most important farm in the area.
Many Norwegian emigrants went to America during the 1840s and later settled in the area of the present city of
Westby, Wisconsin (named after general store owner and civil war Union soldier Ole T. Westby); a city which still has a mostly
Norwegian-American population.
