Hundreds of Denmark part of the 1970 administrative reform. Hundreds comprised varying numbers of parishes (Danish: sogn, plural: sogne), and each hundred had its own tingsted (assembly place) where the ting (assembly) was held, serving as court of law in minor affairs (major affairs were decided by the three landsting assemblies, serving as supreme courts in respectively 1) Scania [including Halland, Blekinge and Bornholm], 2) Zealand [including Lolland and Falster] and 3) Jutland and Funen). It has been hypothesised - since an extremely large amount of Denmark's herreder have access to the sea - that the division may have originated in the Viking
Greater Copenhagen and Skåne Committee Greater Copenhagen and Skåne Committee The Öresund Committee () was an organisation which described itself as a platform for regional political collaboration in the Öresund region. The Öresund region comprises Sweden's most southerly province of Skåne and the Danish islands of Zealand, Lolland, Falster and Bornholm. The Öresund region has a total population of 3.7 million inhabitants. The Öresund Committee was established in 1993 and worked as the platform for regional political cooperation in the Öresund Region, lobbying for Öresund interest at national and European level. The Committee worked across party lines in its efforts to solve important questions about