Editing Sarpsborg (section)

==History==
[[File:Sarpsborg.jpg|275px|right|thumbnail|Downtown Sarpsborg (Roald Amundsens Gate)]]
The city was founded as ''Borg'' by the Viking King [[Olaf II of Norway|Olav Haraldsson]] (Saint Olaf) in 1016. It was burned to the ground by Swedish invaders in 1567 during the [[Northern Seven Years' War]]. Half the population was evacuated down the river to what is today known as Fredrikstad, about {{convert|15|km|mi|0}} downstream.

Much of the rebuilt town disappeared into the river [[Glomma]] during a 1702 [[mudslide]]. Again Borg was rebuilt, and it was recreated as a city in 1839, and separated from [[Tune, Norway|Tune]] as a municipality of its own.

The rural municipalities of Tune, [[Skjeberg]], and [[Varteig]] were merged with the city on 1 January 1992. The population is steadily growing, and during the summer of 2005 it reached 50,000 inhabitants.

In 2016 the town celebrated its 1,000th anniversary, and the entire year was commemorated by a special programme that encouraged historic preservation within the town.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sarpsborg2016.no/|title=Sarpsborg 1016-2016|access-date=21 July 2017|archive-date=1 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170701130054/http://www.sarpsborg2016.no/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Historically, the sawmill and timber shipping industry has been Sarpsborg's most important sources of income, however since the [[industrialisation]] in Norway, more specifically Sarpsborg and the establishment of local manufacturing businesses during the late 1800s, the biggest being [[Borregaard]], Sarpsborg has changed from its traditional timber-based economy and [[pre-industrial society]] to a more manufacturing and refining-based economy and [[industrial society]]. In modern times Sarpsborg has moved away from being a city based on the local manufacturing and refining industry, with only around ten percent employed within the local manufacturing industry, coinciding with Norway's general shift towards a [[post-industrial society]]. Despite this, the city is still widely regarded by Norwegians both unofficially and officially, to be an industrial city.<ref>{{Citation|last=Thorsnæs|first=Geir|title=Sarpsborg|date=2021-11-16|url=http://snl.no/Sarpsborg|work=Store norske leksikon|language=nb|access-date=2021-12-10|archive-date=18 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220118174514/https://snl.no/Sarpsborg|url-status=live}}</ref>

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|+ '''Number of minorities (1st and 2nd generation) in Sarpsborg by country of origin in 2021'''<ref>{{cite web|title=Immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents, by immigration category, country background and percentages of the population|url=https://www.ssb.no/statistikkbanken/selectvarval/Define.asp?subjectcode=&ProductId=&MainTable=FolkInnvkatLand&nvl=&PLanguage=1&nyTmpVar=true&CMSSubjectArea=befolkning&KortNavnWeb=innvbef&StatVariant=&checked=true|access-date=6 August 2021|publisher=ssb.no|archive-date=2 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150702101705/https://www.ssb.no/statistikkbanken/selectvarval/Define.asp?subjectcode=&ProductId=&MainTable=FolkInnvkatLand&nvl=&PLanguage=1&nyTmpVar=true&CMSSubjectArea=befolkning&KortNavnWeb=innvbef&StatVariant=&checked=true|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
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! style="background:#efefef;"|Ancestry
! style="background:#efefef;"|Number
|-
| {{flag|Poland}}||1,646
|-
| {{flag|Iraq}}||1,382
|-
| {{flag|Bosnia-Herzegovina}}||1,102
|-
| {{flag|Kosovo}}||841
|-
| {{flag|Somalia}}||725
|-
| {{flag|Syria}}||557
|-
| {{flag|Sweden}}||492
|-
| {{flag|Afghanistan}}||408
|-
| {{flag|Iran}}||372
|-
| {{flag|Vietnam}}||297
|-
| {{flag|Lithuania}}||267
|-
| {{flag|Philippines}}||260
|-
| {{flag|Thailand}}||240
|-
| {{flag|Serbia}}||178
|-
| {{flag|Pakistan}}||174
|-
| {{flag|Denmark}}||161
|-
| {{flag|Russia}}||160
|-
|}