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| The modern city of Aarhus |
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| The Aarhus River is flowing through the inner city of Aarhus and ends in Aarhus Habour. |
The city itself is presumably older than 770 AD, making Aarhus the oldest big city in Scandinavia.
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| A model of Aros, the fortified Viking town around 950 AD |
During the Middle Ages the city was called Arus, and in Icelandic chronicles, it was known as Áróss. It is a compound of the two words ār, genitive of ā ("river", Modern Danish å) and ōss ("mouth", Modern Danish munding).
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| Medieval Denmark |
Aros is also a river that ran through Beleriand in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium.
