Gjæsdal was established as a municipality in 1838, and in 1965 it was merged with parts of Bjerkreim, Forsand, and Høle.

On 1 January 1965, Gjestal ( pop: 3, 353 ) was merged with Frafjord, Dirdal, Byrkjedal, Øvre Maudal and Østabødal districts of Forsand ( pop: 621 ), Nedre Maudal of Bjerkreim ( pop: 40 ) and Oltesvik of Høle ( pop: 37 ), greatly increasing the area of the municipality.

* Ila, Trondheim, borough in Norway

Søndre Nordstrand is a borough of the city of Oslo, Norway.

Furuset was a borough of the city of Oslo, Norway up to January 1, 2004, when it became part of the new borough of Alna.

St. Hanshaugen ( Norwegian for St. John's Hill ) is a borough of the city of Oslo, Norway.

Sagene is a borough of the city of Oslo, Norway.

Torshov is an area in the borough Sagene in Oslo, Norway.

Grünerløkka is a borough of the city of Oslo, Norway.

Ullern is an affluent borough of the city of Oslo, Norway.

Ullern is a parish in the Church of Norway, but the borders do not correspond with the borough borders.

Gamle Oslo is a borough of the city of Oslo, Norway.

Majorstuen or Majorstua is a neighbourhood in the Frogner borough in the western part of Oslo, Norway.

Bjerke is a borough of the city of Oslo, Norway.

Røa was a borough of the city of Oslo, Norway up to January 1, 2004, when it became part of the Vestre Aker district.

Helsfyr-Sinsen was a borough of the city of Oslo, Norway up to January 1, 2004, when it was split and merged into Alna and Gamle Oslo boroughs.

Sinsen is a mixed residential and commercial area in Grünerløkka borough of Oslo, Norway.

Stovner is a borough located to the far north east of the city of Oslo, Norway.

Frogner is a borough of the city of Oslo, Norway.

Frogner Manor ( Frogner Hovedgård ) is located on a former estate in an area that became part of today's borough of Frogner in Oslo, Norway.

Frogner Church ( Norwegian: Frogner kirke ) is a church in the Frogner borough of the city of Oslo, Norway.

Vinderen is a neighbourhood in the Vestre Aker borough of Oslo, Norway.

Kjelsås is a one of the northern suburbs of Oslo situated in Nordre Aker, the northern borough of Oslo, Norway.

* Nordstrand, Norway, a borough in Oslo, Norway

Denmark is located southwest of Sweden and due south of Norway and is bordered by the German state ( and former possession ) Schleswig-Holstein to the south.

In 1953-55 the former territories of the Kalmar Union, Denmark ( with Greenland and the Faroes ), Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, reunited in the Nordic Council, an economic and political cooperation union.

BI Norwegian Business School former name BI Norwegian School of Management () is the largest business school in Norway and the second largest in all of Europe.

Short track speed skating had little following in the long track speed skating countries of Europe, such as Norway, the Netherlands and the former Soviet Union, with none of these nations having won official medals ( though the Netherlands won two gold medals when the sport was a demonstration event in 1988 ).

* May 10 – Einar Henry Gerhardsen, former Prime Minister of Norway ( d. 1987 )

* September 19 – Einar Henry Gerhardsen, former Prime Minister of Norway ( b. 1897 )

However, they made themselves unpopular by heavy taxation and favouring Danish advisers over the Norwegian nobles, and when King Magnus I of Norway, the son of the former King of Norway, Olaf, invaded in 1035, they were forced to flee to Harthacnut's court.

In the 18th century, Denmark – Norway revived its former colonies in Greenland, while the Russian Empire gained a foothold in Alaska.

Denmark and the former political union of Denmark – Norway had a colonial empire from the 17th through the 20th centuries, large portions of which were found in the Americas.

Danish intervention on France's behalf during the Napoleonic Wars ended with the severing of Denmark-Norway under the 1814 Treaty of Kiel, which granted mainland Norway to Sweden but retained the former Norwegian colonies under the Danish crown.

Around 1127, Harald went to Norway and declared he was an illegitimate son of the former King Magnus Barefoot, who had visited Ireland just before his death in 1103.

A witchcraft trial held in 1324 in Bergen, Norway, records a spell used by the accused Ragnhild Tregagás to end the marriage of her former lover, a man named Bárd.

A witchcraft trial in Bergen, Norway held in 1324 resulted in the recording of a spell used by the witch Ragnhild Tregagás to end the marriage of her former lover, a man named Bárd.

Johann Olav Koss ( born 29 October 1968 ) is a former speed skater from Norway, considered to be one of the best in history, and current assistant coach of Norway's speed skating team.

The Norway Baptist Church ( former ) was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

Haakon's dramatic childhood was often parallelled with that of former king Olaf Tryggvasson ( who introduced Christianity to Norway ), as well as with the gospels and Child Jesus, which served as an important ideological function for his kingship.

The Origins of the name Blake is also considered to be Old Norse first appearing in England Yorkshire, possibly derived from the word Blaker referring to a village and a former municipality of Akershus county, Norway ( east of Oslo ).

* Oscar Torp ( 1893 – 1958 ), former Prime Minister of Norway

Ølen is a former municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway.

* Torfinn Opheim, former mayor and member of the Parliament of Norway

* Nes, Hedmark, a former municipality in the county of Hedmark in Norway

* Nes, Sør-Trøndelag, a former municipality in the county of Sør-Trøndelag in Norway

* Nes, Vest-Agder, a former municipality in the county of Vest-Agder in Norway