Amt Sentence Examples
South of the Arctic circle they are, under ordinary circumstances, confined to the plateaus covered with dwarf birch and juniper above the conifer-region, though in Tromso amt and in Finmarken they occur in all suitable localities down to the level of the sea.
For administrative purposes the country is divided into eighteen counties (Amter, singular Amt), as follows.
As Ptolemy seems to have regarded the district north of the Liimfjord (Limfjord) as a group of islands, the territory of the Cimbri, the northernmost tribe of the peninsula, would be included in the modern county (Amt) of Aalborg.
The Faeroes form an amt (county) of Denmark.
Other towns of the name of Nykjobing in Denmark are (1) on Limfjord in Thisted amt (pop. 449 2); and (2) in Zealand, Holbaek amt (pop. 2000).