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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 [ no ] ; settlement relocated to newly founded "Christiania," [ 6 ] [ 7 ] "Oslo" remained the name of a village outside the city
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 ...
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1624 – Oslo, Norway, destroyed by fire. 1625 – First Great Stockholm Fire, Sweden, burned for three days and destroyed a fifth of the infrastructure. 1633 – Great Istanbul Fire of 1633, Ottoman Empire, modern Turkey, started in the Cibali Gate Port due to a reckless caulker, burned for three days from early Friday morning to Sunday. About ...
The Oslo Metro (Norwegian: Oslo T-bane or Oslo Tunnelbane or simply T-banen) is the rapid transit system of Oslo, Norway, operated by Sporveien T-banen on contract from the transit authority Ruter. The network consists of five lines that all run through the city centre, with a total length of 85 kilometres (53 mi), serving 101 stations of which ...
The Oslofjord (Norwegian: Oslofjorden, Urban East Norwegian: [ˈʊ̂ʂlʊˌfjuːɳ]; English: Oslo Fjord [1] [2] [3]) is an inlet in southeastern Norway.The 120-kilometre (75 mi) fjord begins at the small village of Bonn in Frogn Municipality and stretching northwards to the city of Oslo, and then curving to the east and then south again.
The Old Town of Oslo (Norwegian: Gamlebyen, pronounced [ˈɡɑmɽəˌby̌ːn] ⓘ) is a neighbourhood in the inner city of Oslo, Norway, belonging to the borough of Gamle Oslo and is the oldest urban area within the current capital. This part of the capital of Norway was simply called Oslo until 1925 while the city as a whole was called ...