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* The city of Oslo in Norway is destroyed by fire for the fourteenth time ; King Christian IV of Denmark – Norway decrees its rebuilding on a new site where it will be renamed Christiania.
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The city of Oslo bought the Ekely estate from his heirs in 1946 and demolished his house in May 1960.
When Munch died, his remaining works were bequeathed to the city of Oslo, which built the Munch Museum at Tøyen ( it opened in 1963 ).
It was the first city handed over to Palestinian Authority control in accordance with the Oslo accords.
Largest trading city around the Oslo Fjord during the Viking age.
This will function as the main city and capital of Norway, until it is replaced by Oslo in 1314.
Since The Oslo Agreement, violent episodes have been recurrent in the city.
* The city of Oslo is founded by Harald Hardråde of Norway.
Exceptions to this are New Zealand ( example dial ), with ten clicks for 0, nine clicks for 1, and so on ; Sweden ( example dial ), with one click for 0, two clicks for 1, and so on ; and in Oslo, the capital city of Norway, where the ' New Zealand ' system was used in inverse to the rest of the country.
In December 1995, in keeping with the Oslo Accords, the Israeli army abandoned the Mukata ' a and withdrew to the city outskirts.
* Oslo, the capital of Norway is an independent city defined both as a municipality and a county.
In 1996, Israel handed over control of the city to the Palestinian National Authority in keeping with the Oslo Accords.
The establishment of cities gathered pace, and by the end of the 11th century, the three largest cities of modern-day Norway, Oslo, Trondheim ( Nidaros ) and Bergen ( Bjørgvin ) were flourishing, as well as Tønsberg, the most important city in Eastern Norway until c. 1300.
This delayed the Nazi German invasion long enough for King Haakon, his government and the parliament to escape the city with much of the treasury, and to resist the invaders, although Oslo itself surrendered to the invaders at 14: 00 on 9 April 1940.
A new IT " city " has been built at Fornebu, Bærum near Oslo.
A Norway Spruce is given by the city of Oslo and presented to London as a Christmas tree for display in Trafalgar Square as a token of gratitude for the UK's support during World War II.
A suburb of Oslo, Bærum is located on the west coast of the city.
Tensions would later increase as the Israeli government signed the Oslo Accords in September 1993, which gave limited autonomy to the PLO in the West Bank city of Jericho and the Gaza Strip.
In 2006 he performed his first debut abroad, in a Ministry of Sound event at Sentrum Scene in the city of Oslo, Norway.
Oslo is a city in Marshall County, Minnesota, United States.
* Oslo: After a great fire in 1624, it was decided by the then King Christian IV that the city would be moved behind the Akershus fortress.
As Oslo / Christiania before it, the city was behind a fortress, with a grid system allowing cannons to fire towards the two ports of the city and the river on the eastern end.
Discussions about Oslo hosting the Winter Olympic Games began as early as 1935 ; the city wanted to host the 1948 Games, but World War II made that impossible.
The city of Oslo bore the financial burden of hosting the Games in return for the revenue they generated.
city and Norway
* Molde, Norway, becomes a city.
Kristiansund ( formerly " Christianssund ") is a city and municipality on the western coast of Norway, in the Nordmøre district of Møre og Romsdal county.
Trondheim (), historically, Nidaros and Trondhjem, is a city and municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway.
With a population of 177, 258, it is the third most populous municipality in Norway and city in the country, although the fourth largest urban area.
* March 16 – King Haakon VI of Norway designates the city of Skien as a city with trading privileges, making it the 6th town with city status in the country.
This will function as the main city and capital of Norway, until Bergen is founded in 1070.
Murmansk (; ; ; ) is a port city and the administrative center of Murmansk Oblast, Russia, located in the extreme northwest part of Russia, on the Kola Bay, from the Barents Sea on the northern shore of the Kola Peninsula, not far from Russia's borders with Norway and Finland.
( previously Frederiksstad ) ( literally Fredrik's Town ) is a city and municipality in Østfold county, Norway.
Along with neighboring Sarpsborg, Fredrikstad forms the fifth largest city in Norway: Fredrikstad / Sarpsborg.
He is said to have built the first church in Norway ( in 995 ) and to have founded the city of Trondheim ( in 997 ).
* Sama ( Harstad ), a part of Harstad city in northern Norway
Norway abolished it in 1937 as a title of the non-political top manager of ( city ) municipalities and replaced it with the title rådmann (" alderman " or " magistrate "), which is still in use when referring to the top managers of the municipalities of Norway.
Located in the city of Tromsø, Norway, it was established in 1968, and opened in 1972.
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On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.
It is said that, even at the present stage of Southern urbanization, such a city as Atlanta is not distinctly unlike Columbus or Trenton.
The thousands of city migrants who desert the farms yearly must readjust with even greater stress and tension: the sacred wilderness is gradually surrendering to suburbs and research parks and industrial areas.
Around that statue in the green park where children play and lovers walk in twos and there is a glowing view of the whole city, in that park are the rows of marble busts of Garibaldi's fallen men, the ones who one day rushed out of the Porta San Pancrazio and, under fire all the way, up the long, straight narrow lane to take, then lose the high ground of the Villa Doria Pamphili.
It is remembered and has been commemorated by a bust in a park and a square in the city which was renamed Piazzo Lauro Di Bosis after the war.
Falling somewhere in a category between Einstein's theory and sand fleas -- difficult to see but undeniably there, nevertheless -- is the tropical green `` city '' of Islandia, a string of offshore islands that has almost no residents, limited access and an unlimited future.
But it would greatly strengthen any Mayor's executive powers, remove the excuse in large degree that he is a captive of inaction in the Board of Estimate, increase his budget-making authority both as to expense and capital budgets, and vest in him the right to reorganize city departments in the interest of efficiency and economy.
A road block to desirable local or borough improvements, heretofore dependent on the pocketbook vote of taxpayers and hence a drag on progress, is removed by making these a charge against the whole city instead of an assessment paid by those immediately affected.
`` It's a whole lot easier '', he said, `` to increase the population of Nevada, than it is to increase the population of New York city ''.
This is our duty -- not as nurses or city employes -- but as citizens of the United States.
It is visible throughout the city, and men from Madison Ave. would jump at the chance.
If an atom bomb in 1945 could destroy an entire city surely the atomic arsenal we now have is more than adequate to fulfill any military objective required of it.
Or the city can be a graveyard monument to Western intransigence, if that is what the West wants.
The Lenin tomb is obviously adequate for double occupancy, Moscow is a crowded city, and the creed of Communism deplores waste.
Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.
Warsaw is my city, not Tel Aviv ''.
It should be kept in mind that the ease or difficulty with which a town or city can convert to the proposed plan is directly dependent upon the financial condition of that town or city.
The problem for the city apartment dweller is primarily to plan the use of existing space.
One of the most delightful spots in a southern tour is the city of New Orleans.
Just after sunset is a good time to record the city lights in color since you get a `` fill-in '' light from the sky.
Even when they are finished, however, the contrast will remain, for Istanbul is the only city in the world that is built upon two continents.
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