Aure, Norway  Aure is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the region of Nordmøre. The administrative centre is the village of Aure. Other villages in Aure include Gullstein, Stemshaug, Todalen, Tjeldbergodden, Arasvika, and Tømmervåg. Aure has one of the largest wooden churches in Norway, Aure Church. The municipality is the 179th largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Aure is the 216th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 3,507. The municipality's population density is and its population has increased by 0.1% over the previous 10-year period. The municipality was established on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). On 1 January 1894, the southern district of Aure (population: 942) was separated to form the new municipality of Valsøyfjord. Then on 1 July 1914, the northeastern district of Aure (population: 851) was separated to form the new municipality of Stemshaug. During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1965, Stemshaug Municipality (population: 877), the part of Valsøyfjord Municipality on the island of Ertvågsøya (population: 141), and the part of Tustna Municipality on Ertvågsøya (population: 85) were all merged into Aure. On 1 January 1976, the district of Aure located south of the Vinjefjorden (population: 158) was merged into the neighboring Halsa Municipality. On 1 January 2006, Tustna Municipality was merged into Aure. The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old "Aure" farm (), since the first Aure Church was built there. The name is the plural form of "aurr" which means "gravel". The coat of arms were granted on 21 December 2005, just before the merger of the municipalities of Tustna and Aure. They are based on the arms of the old municipality of Tustna, only the colors were changed. The arms show a white "klippfisk" (cod) on a blue background. The commercial production of cod in Norway started in Tustna around 1690. Prior to 2006, the arms of Aure were red with the gold faces of two sea eagles facing opposite directions.