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The city's major cultural institutions include Den Gamle By, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, the Moesgård Museum, Gender Museum Denmark, Musikhuset Aarhus and Aarhus Theatre. Known as Smilets By (lit. City of Smiles) it is the Danish city with the youngest demographics and home to Scandinavia 's largest university, Aarhus University .
The city of Aarhus is the second largest urban area in Denmark, the principal port on the east coast of Jutland, and the seat of Denmark's second-largest bishopric. In 2013 Beder and Malling was officially counted as a single urban area for the first time. [ 20 ]
ARoS Aarhus Art Museum. The architecture of Aarhus comprises numerous architectural styles and works from the Middle Ages to present-day. Aarhus has a well-preserved medieval city center with the oldest dwellings dating back to the mid-1500s and some ecclesiastical structures such as St. Clemen's Cathedral and numerous smaller churches that can be traced back to the 1100s.
Statistics Denmark defines towns or cities as areas with more than 200 residents in a continuous settlement with no more than 200 meters between residential structures. In 2016 there were 20 such areas in Aarhus Municipality , the largest being the city of Aarhus with some 260.000 inhabitants while some 50.000 people lived in urban areas ...
This article shows a list of cities in Denmark by population. The population is measured by Statistics Denmark [ 1 ] for urban areas (Danish: Byområder), defined as a contiguous built-up area with a maximum distance of 200 meters between houses, unless further distance is caused by public areas, cemeteries or similar.
1657 – Wooden city walls erected as octroi is introduced. [26] 1657-1659 – Aarhus is occupied during the Dano-Swedish wars of 1657–58 and 1658–60. [23] [24] 1659 Aarhus is bombarded by 13 Swedish warships during the Dano-Swedish War of 1658–60. [23] [24] Plague breaks out in the city. Nationwide a third of the population is killed ...