Northern Jutland (
Danish: Nørrejylland) is a historical region in Denmark, defined as
Jutland north of the
Kongeå (with the region south of the Kongeå called
Southern Jutland (Sønderjylland)). As with other historical regions of Denmark, Northern Jutland had its own
ting assembly in the
Middle Ages, seated in
Viborg.[1]
aSamsø was historically grouped with
Zealand, and was thus not included in Northern Jutland. Samsø was moved into the new
Aarhus County in 1970, and that county was merged with neighboring areas to become the Central Jutland region in 2007. For this reason, everything in Central Jutland except for Samsø is part of the historical Northern Jutland.