The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Aker farms (Store Aker and Lille Aker) (Old Norse: Akr), since the first church was built there (see Gamle Aker kirke).
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Many acres was considered holy in Norse times, and several was dedicated to the old Norse gods - see for instance Torsåker, Ullensaker and Ringsaker.
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The name originally belonged to a farm which was located near the current Old Aker Church.
The newspaper was founded in 1928, when Groruddalen was still located in Aker municipality.
After the merger of Oslo and Aker in 1948, Rolfsen prepared a general plan for the new large municipal area.
Johan Peter Strömberg (19 August 1773, Stockholm – 20 September 1834, Aker) was a Swedish actor, dancer and theatre director.
The farmers chose to exercise their ancient right to summon a thing at Aker to submit their grievances and hear their defense for what they believed was a justified killing.
Øystein Ingar Larsen (born 1 November 1941 in Aker) was Bishop of the Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland from 1992 to 2006.
Paul Thyness (born 10 April 1930 in Aker) was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party.
He was born in Abelsøe, Aker as the son of Anne Hedevig Brochmann (1752-1834) and Hans Prydz (1751-1781), and had three brothers.
He was born in Aker, the son of librarian Wilhelm Munthe (1883–1965) and his wife Jenny Hempel (1882–1975).
Thor Lund (27 May 1921 in Aker – 16 June 1999) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
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After graduating with triple majors in environmental science, computing and mathematics, from Antioch College, Aker contributed to his first open source project, the 386BSD operating system.
The first line opened on 24 November 1899 when they opened their tracks from Sagene to Aker Street (the Sagene Ring), connecting onwards to the Eastern Railway Station (Østbanen) using KES tracks.
Following the 1948 merger of the municipalities of Oslo and Aker, it was decided that the Nordstrand area in the former Aker would be opened to large-scale construction of housing.
Since 2003 he has been chief executive officer, and since 2006 also chair of Aker, and holds several board positions within the group, and is chair of Aker Holding, Aker Seafoods, Aker Drilling, Aker Floating Production, Aker BioMarine and Aker Exploration, and is board member of TRG Holding, Aker Solutions and Aker Philadelphia Shipyard.
Puntervold resided in Kristiania until 1906, when he moved to Bækkelaget in Aker.
P&O Ferries signed a €360m contract with Aker Yards (later renamed STX Europe) on 8 August 2008, for the two largest ferries ever to be constructed for the Dover-Calais service.
Other companies there include Iroko Pharmaceuticals, Aker Philadelphia Shipyard, Rhoads Industries, Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC), Energy Efficient Buildings Hub (EEB Hub), RevZilla.com, and Mark Group, Inc.