Asker (nor)

Asker

Asker ranks 2,925th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Gjøvik, Elverum, and Zapopan. Memorable people born in Asker include Einar Gerhardsen, Johan Ferner, and Simen Agdestein. Memorable people who died in Asker include Josef Terboven, Arne Garborg, and Peter Wessel Zapffe. Asker has been the birth place of many politicians, and athletes and the death place of many writers, and politicians. Asker is located in Norway.

Asker, also called Asker proper, is a district and former municipality in Akershus, Norway, located approximately 20km southwest of Oslo. From 2020 it is part of the larger administrative municipality Asker together with the traditional Buskerud districts Røyken and Hurum; Asker constitutes the northern fourth and is part of the Greater Oslo Region. The administrative center was the town of Asker, which remains so for the new larger municipality. Asker was established as a parish in the Middle Ages and as a municipality on 1 January 1838. Read more on Wikipedia