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==Demographics and administration== {| class="wikitable floatright" |+[[Roskilde Municipality]] (Q32014)<ref name=Pop2011>{{cite journal | title = Folketal den 1. i kvartalet efter område, oprindelsesland og tid | publisher = Danmarks Statistik | journal = Census Update | volume = 2011 | url = http://www.statistikbanken.dk/statbank5a/default.asp?w=853| access-date = 4 January 2015}}</ref> |- ! '''Country of birth''' || '''Population''' |- |{{flagicon|DEN}} [[Denmark]] ||align="right" |76,545 |- |{{flagicon|TUR}} [[Turkey]] ||align="right" |1,724 |- | {{flagicon|IRQ}} [[Iraq]] ||align="right" |463 |- |{{flagicon|POL}} [[Poland]] ||align="right" |437 |- | {{flagicon|AFG}} [[Afghanistan]] ||align="right" |411 |- | {{flagicon|PRC}} [[China]] ||align="right" |361 |- | {{flagicon|LIB}} [[Lebanon]] || align="right" |342 |- |{{flagicon|GER}} [[Germany]] ||align="right" |338 |- | {{flagicon|IRN}} [[Iran]] ||align="right" |227 |- | {{flagicon|NOR}} [[Norway]] ||align="right" |196 |- | {{flagicon|UK}} [[United Kingdom]] ||align="right" |192 |- |{{flagicon|SWE}} [[Sweden]] ||align="right" |184 |- |} As early as 1070, Adam von Bremen referred to Roskilde as "Zealand's largest town".<ref name=dsdrh/> At the time of the Reformation in 1536, it had some 6,000 inhabitants but as a result of war, fire and disease, by 1753 its population had dropped to only 1,550.<ref name=vrh/> By the 1860s, it had grown to around 5,000 and by the 1900s to some 9,000. Thereafter it increased appreciably until 1970 when there were almost 45,000 inhabitants. The population dipped slightly to 40,000 in the 1980s, but thanks to improved connections with Copenhagen and the establishment of the university, it grew steadily to reach 47,117 by 2014 making Roskilde Denmark's tenth largest city.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dendigitalebyport.byhistorie.dk/koebstaeder/befolkning.aspx?koebstadID=44|title=Roskilde – Historiske befolkningstal|publisher=Dansk Center for Byhistorie|access-date=12 December 2014 |language=da}}</ref> In Roskilde Municipality as of 1 October 2014, 76,545 residents had Danish background, 6,287 were immigrants and 2,006 were second or third generation descendants of immigrants. The most common countries of birth of foreign-born residents of Roskilde Municipality are Turkey, Iraq, Poland and Afghanistan.<ref name=Pop2011/> Roskilde is governed by the administrative council of [[Roskilde Municipality]]. Following the local elections of November 2013, Joy Mogensen (born 1980), a [[Social Democrats (Denmark)|Social Democrat]], was reappointed mayor (first elected mayor in 2011), gaining three additional seats on the council. The council now consists of 13 seats for the Social Democrats, one for the [[Danish Social Liberal Party|Social Liberal Party]], one for the [[Conservative People's Party (Denmark)|Conservative People's Party]], one for the [[Socialist People's Party (Denmark)|Socialist People's Party]], three for the [[Danish People's Party|People's Party]], nine for the [[Venstre (Denmark)|Left Liberal Party]] and three for the [[Red–Green Alliance (Denmark)|Red–Green Alliance]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tv2lorry.dk/artikel/190280|title=Roskilde Kommune: Det nye Byråd|publisher=TV2 Lorry|date=22 November 2013|access-date=8 January 2015 }}</ref>
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