Romsdal Museum ( Romsdalsmuseets ) in Molde is one of the largest and most extensive folk museums in Norway.

The clan de la Mare is one of the oldest in Normandy and is descended from Ragnvald Eysteinsson, earl of Møre and Romsdal.

The Norwegian aviation authorities decided to build two airports in Møre og Romsdal county – one serving Ålesund ( Ålesund Airport, Vigra ) and one serving Kristiansund ( Kristiansund Airport, Kvernberget ), but not one in Molde.

The diocese was established on 18 September 1983, when the district of Sunnmøre was transferred from Bjørgvin bishopric in the south, and the Romsdal and Nordmøre districts from Nidaros bishopric in the north to form the new one.

Sula is one of the most densely populated municipalities of Møre og Romsdal, and it is part of the Ålesund Region.

He inherited Raumsdal ( modern: Romsdal ) from his father, and was again the father of King Raum, who is the father of Hrossbjörn, who is the father of Orm Broken-shell, who is the father of Knatti, who had two sons: Thórolf and Ketill Raum ( in one version, Thórolf and Ketill Raum are sons of Orm ).

However, there was no local consensus for any one line ; there was a conflict between the three areas of Sunnmøre, Romsdal and Nordmøre, each who wanted a different branch to their city, and a conflict between building railways and roads.

Though it is one of the three traditional districts in Møre og Romsdal, Sunnmøre is home to more than half the population of the county — with 130, 601 of the 247, 313 residents ( 53 %).

With an area of it is the largest municipality in Møre og Romsdal county.

The largest town is Molde, which also is the seat of Møre og Romsdal County Municipality.

The Dano-Norwegian government officials in charge of the giving of the coats, had a party to remember the momentous occasion and became too drunk and hungover to remember which was which, and so Molde got the coat with a whale ( which are scarce in between the Romsdal fjords ) and Kristiansund got the waterfall ( since Molde is on the mainland and Kristiansund lies in the open sea, it would be more likely that the waterfall was intended for Molde's mountains and the whales for Kristiansund.

The Sunnmøre region was moved to Romsdal county in 1689.

It was not until the evening of the 21st that the King was able to travel by road from Otta to Lesja on the east-west watershed and then down the narrow Romsdal to Åndalsnes.

On 1 January 2008, the Fossdalen farm ( population: 4 ) was transferred from Rindal ( in Møre og Romsdal county ) to Hemne ( in Sør-Trøndelag county ).

On 1 January 1877, the Sotnakken farm on the Romsdal peninsula ( population: 19 ) was transferred from Nesset to neighboring Bolsøy municipality.

The municipality of Sandø i Romsdal was established on 1 January 1867 when it was separated from the municipality of Akerø.

In 1840, most of Akerø on the Romsdal peninsula was separated to form the municipality of Frænen.

On 1 January 2008, the Fossdalen farm ( population: 4 ) was transferred from Rindal ( in Møre og Romsdal county ) to Hemne ( in Sør-Trøndelag county ).

In the early Viking Age, before Harald Fairhair, Romsdal was a petty kingdom.

Ragnvald Eysteinsson ( 830 – 890 ) ( Norwegian: Ragnvald Mørejarl ), was jarl ( earl ) of Møre, approximately of today's Møre og Romsdal.

In 1122, while a guest at Hustad in Romsdal, king Eystein I was taken ill and died.

The Romsdal farmers defied the Swedish taxes and military conscription, and the Swedish governor was forced to send a full company of soldiers, and 50 cavalry besides, to collect taxes.

Although Sweden also invaded Romsdal in Western Norway, the local farmers defied the Swedish taxes and military conscription vigorously, and the Swedish governor was forced to send a full company of soldiers, and 50 cavalry besides, to collect taxes.

Planning of the Rauma Line, which would connect the national railway network to Møre og Romsdal, was under way, and several proposals were made to extend it to the coastal towns.

However, the Rauma Line was never built further than to Åndalsnes, and in 1935, the Parliament of Norway decided to connect the coastal towns in Møre og Romsdal to Åndalsnes via road instead of rail.

Kvernberget was opened in 1970 to serve the northern half of the county Møre og Romsdal: Nordmøre and Romsdal.

He was born in the village of Eresfjord, Nesset municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway.

The company was established in 1920 by the merger of a number of local boat services, at that point vital communication links at the road network was scarce in the rugged terrain of Møre og Romsdal.

The 1, 028-ship strong Nortraship was established on 22 April at a government meeting at Stuguflåten in Romsdal.

The regions of Nordmøre and Romsdal ( together with Sunnmøre from Bjørgvin ) were established as a diocese of its own ( Diocese of Møre ) in 1983.

The region Sunnmøre was ( together with Nordmøre and Romsdal from the Diocese of Nidaros ) established as a diocese of its own ( Diocese of Møre ) in 1983.

Kristiansund ( formerly " Christianssund ") is a city and municipality on the western coast of Norway, in the Nordmøre district of Møre og Romsdal county.

is a town and municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway.

It is part of the Romsdal region.

The municipality is located on the Romsdal Peninsula, surrounding the Fannefjord and Moldefjord.

The town is located on the northern shore of the Romsdalsfjord on the Romsdal Peninsula.

The town of Molde is the administrative center of Møre og Romsdal county, the administrative center of the municipality of Molde, the commercial hub of Romsdal, and the headquarters of the Diocese of Møre.

Molde proper consists of a long and wide strip of urban land running east-west along the north shore of the Moldefjord, an arm of the Romsdalsfjord, on the Romsdal peninsula.

Bud is a fishing village on the very tip of the Romsdal peninsula.

Archaeological finds in the county of Møre og Romsdal have been dated to 9, 200 BC and are probably the remains of settlers from Doggerland, an area now submerged in the North Sea, but at the time a landbridge that connected the present day British Isles with Jutland.

The Geirangerfjord in Møre og Romsdal, since 2005 on UNESCO's list of World Heritage Site s.

Nynorsk is the majority form of the four counties Rogaland, Hordaland, Sogn og Fjordane and Møre og Romsdal, which together comprise the region of Western Norway.

The prevailing regions for Nynorsk are the rural areas of the western counties of Rogaland, Hordaland, Sogn og Fjordane and Møre og Romsdal, in addition to the western / northern parts of Oppland, Buskerud, Telemark, Aust-and Vest-Agder, where an estimated 90 % of the population writes Nynorsk.

In Sogn og Fjordane county and the Sunnmøre region of Møre og Romsdal, all municipalities have stated Nynorsk as the official language, the only exception being Ålesund that remains neutral.

is a county in Norway, bordering Møre og Romsdal, Oppland, Buskerud, and Hordaland.

It is and encompasses areas in Dovre as well as in adjacent Lesja in Oppland and areas in Sør-Trøndelag and Møre og Romsdal.

It is encompassing areas in Lesja and Dovre in Oppland as well as areas in Sør-Trøndelag and Møre og Romsdal.

Rail service is provided by the Raumabanen, connecting with the Dovrebanen at Dombås in Dovre and extending to the terminus in Åndalsnes on the fjord in Møre og Romsdal County.

To avoid engaging a fleet of 25 ships, 400 of King Olav's men and 100 loyal peasant farmers from Romsdal built a road up from the Romsdalfjord which passed through the area that became known as Lesjaverk.

Iron smelting is recorded in Lesja municipality at Lesjaverk ( Lesja Iron Works ) as early as 1614, when King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway authorized the Romsdal Market at Devold on the Rauma river 4 miles upstream of Åndalsnes.

With this change, Molde assumed the role as principal market town for Romsdal formerly held by Veøy.