Aarhus

Aarhus, Denmark

Location in Denmark Location in Denmark
Population (2006-01-03)  - City  - Metropolitan  - Density (city/met)	307,119 Århus municipality: 468 km² Metropolitan area 1,228,398 East Jutland metropolitan area 9,997 km2
Time zone	Central European: UTC+1
Latitude Longitude	56°09' N 10°13' E

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Aarhus

Aarhus is the second biggest city in Denmark after Copenhagen, and the biggest on Jutland, the Danish mainland. It has about 290,000 inhabitants, and the metropolitan area, that Aarhus is a part of has close to 1,400,000.

The settlement of Aarhus was started in around the year 770 as a trading place of the Vikings, but the oldest recorded history of Aarhus is from 951. The city grew in the 16th century and again during the Industrial Revolution.

Aarhus' climate is on the boundary between humid continental (Dfb in the Koeppen climate classification) and oceanic (Cfb in the Koeppen climate classification).

Aarhus Media

• Scale model of Aarhus.jpg

  Model of the fortified Viking town Aros (late 900s), north is up

• Århus Katedral2.jpg

  Aarhus Cathedral. The cathedral was founded in 1190 and the original version stood finished in the year 1300.

• Aarhus set fra bakkerne i Riis Skov.jpg

  Aarhus set fra bakkerne i Riis Skov, maleri ca. 1850 af Peter Holm (fotograferet 2013 i Den Gamle By). Vejen på maleriet er landevejen til Vejlby, "den famøse hulvej".

• Preussiske soldater inddriver kvæg ved Domkirken. Set fra Mejlgade (Kunstner Hans Frederik Meyer Visby) 1864.jpg

  Prussian soldiers herding cattle by Aarhus cathedral, 1864

• Havne udsigt fra dokken.jpg

  Toldkammeret (Custom House, 1898)

• 7487068-70-r-siden-eksplosionen-p-aarhus-havn---1.jpg

  Devastation in the wake of the explosion on 4 July 1944 in the harbour

• Danish resistance fighters injured during fighting with German troops in Aarhus, Bispetorv, 5 May, 1945.jpg

  Resistance fighters on Bispetorv fighting with German soldiers, 5 May 1945

• Aarhus docklands by night.jpg

  Urban development in Aarhus city centre, 2013

• Aerial view of Aarhus 2015.jpg

  Aerial view of the bay and city

• Aarhus City Hall spring 2017 2.jpg

  Aarhus City Hall from 1942

Other websites

• Media related to Aarhus at Wikimedia Commons
• Website of the city of Aarhus