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The location of Norway An enlargeable map of the Kingdom of Norway An enlargeable map of continental Norway. The following outline provides an overview of, and topical guide to, the Kingdom of Norway. Norway is a sovereign constitutional monarchy, located principally in the western part of Scandinavia in Northern Europe. [1]
1537 - Reformation, Norway became a client kingdom under the Danish crown, most of the government administration moved to Copenhagen; 1567 - city destroyed during Nordic Seven Years' War; 1624 - 1624 Oslo fire ; settlement relocated to newly founded "Christiania," [6] [7] "Oslo" remained the name of a village outside the city
Name used in the default map caption; image = Location map Norway Oslo.png The default map image, without "Image:" or "File:" top = 59.9632 Latitude at top edge of map, in decimal degrees; bottom = 59.8631 Latitude at bottom edge of map, in decimal degrees; left = 10.6424 Longitude at left edge of map, in decimal degrees; right = 10.8539 ...
A monetary history of Norway, 1816–2016 (Cambridge University Press, 2016). Evju, Håkon. Ancient constitutions and modern monarchy: historical writing and enlightened reform in Denmark-Norway 1730–1814 (Brill, 2019) Falls, Cyril. "The Independence of Norway" History Today (Dec 1955) 5#12 pp 833–838, covers 1814–1905. Garau, Salvatore.
A map of central Oslo. Uelands gate, the traditional boundary line between the East End and the West End, is marked in black.. The East End and West End (Bokmål: østkanten og vestkanten, Nynorsk: austkanten og vestkanten) are used as names for the two parts of Oslo, Norway, formed by the economic and socially segregating separation line that has historically passed along the street Uelands gate.
A geopolitical map of Norway, exhibiting its 19 first-order subnational divisions (fylker or "counties") with Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Each of the country's regions is uniquely coloured. Norway is commonly divided into five major geographical regions (landsdeler). These regions are purely geographical and cultural, and have no administrative ...
The municipality of Oslo has a population of 717,710 as of 1 January 2024. [24] The urban area extends far beyond the boundaries of the municipality into the surrounding county of Akershus (municipalities of Asker, Bærum, Lillestrøm, Enebakk, Rælingen, Lørenskog, Nittedal, Gjerdrum, Nordre Follo); being, to a great degree suburbs of Oslo making up approximately 500,000 of the population of ...
To the North, Norway also bordered extensive tax territories on the mainland. Norway, whose expansionism starts from the very foundation of the Kingdom in 872, reached the peak of its power in the years between 1240 and 1319. At the peak of Norwegian expansion before the civil war (1130–1240), Sigurd I led the Norwegian Crusade (1107–1110).