Skien

Skien is a town and municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is a part of the traditional area of Grenland. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Skien. Skien is also the administrative centre of Telemark county. Skien is one among Norway's oldest cities, with an city history dating lower back to the Middle Ages, and received privileges as a marketplace city in 1358. From the fifteenth century, the town became governed by way of a 12-member council. The present day municipality of Skien became established on 1 January 1838. The rural municipalities of Gjerpen and Solum were merged into the municipality of Skien on 1 January 1964.

The conurbation of Porsgrunn/Skien is reckoned by Statistics Norway to be the seventh largest city area in Norway, straddling a place of three municipalities: Skien municipality, Porsgrunn, and Bamble. This location is domestic to greater than one hundred,000 human beings. Skien became historically Norway's most vital port metropolis for transport timber and one among Norway's leading industrial towns with full-size touch with neighbouring nations, particularly Denmark. The town changed into the birthplace of playwright Henrik Ibsen, and a lot of his well-known dramas are set in locations harking back to nineteenth-century Skien.