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Bjørnør was a former municipality in the old Sør-Trøndelag county in Norway. It covered an area of 865 km² and existed from 1838 to 1892, during the time of the United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway. The municipality included what is now Osen Municipality and part of Åfjord Municipality, along with much of the western part of the Fosen peninsula in Trøndelag. The main administrative village was Roan, where Roan Church is located. Before it was dissolved in 1892, Bjørnør bordered Aafjord Municipality to the south and Nordre Trondhjem county to the north and west, and it had about 4,766 people. Bjørnør Municipality was created on 1 January 1838. On 15 January 1892, the king approved a decision to split it up, and the change took effect on 1 June 1892, when Bjørnør Municipality was dissolved. The area was divided into Osen, Roan, and Stoksund municipalities, with populations of 1,575, 2,069, and 1,122 respectively. The municipality, originally a parish, is named Bjørnør after the old name of the area. The name comes from a form meaning “bears,” and the last part refers to gravel or coarse sand. Bjørnør Municipality had one Church of Norway parish (sokn). When the municipality was dissolved, the parish belonged to the Bjørnør prestegjeld and the Fosen deanery (prosti) in the Diocese of Nidaros. The highest point in Bjørnør Municipality is the 644.3 meter tall mountain called Dåapma. It is located at a tripoint border where Bjørnør Municipality meets Aafjord Municipality and Beitstaden Municipality.