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Otta and Norway
* Otta, Norway, a Norwegian town in Gudbrandsdal.
* The Otta River in Norway.
*: Otta, Norway 1940, Defence of Arras, Dunkirk 1940, Normandy Landing, Tilly sur Seulles, St Pierre La Vielle, Gheel, Nederrijn, North West Europe 1940, 1944-45, Gazala, Defence of Alamein Line, El Alamein, Mareth, Akarit, North Africa 1942-43, Landing in Sicily, Lentini, Sicily 1943, Minturno, Anzio, Italy 1943-44, Arakan Beaches, Burma 1945
And the focus of activity lay 4-5km further north where there in the 16-1800's was a copper and iron works, servicing the various mines up in the hills, this is also where the present day church " Sel Kirke " is located ; Today the de facto town-church, Otta itself being one of very few towns in Norway, without a central church.
A statue depicting Pillarguri is located in the community of Otta, Norway.
Particularly heavy fighting took place in Fåvang, as well as neighboring Tretten, Vinstra, Kvam, Sjoa and Otta during the Norwegian Campaign which let up to the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany.
Otta and 1940
After the German invasion of April 1940, while King Haakan and the Norwegian government were moving from Elverum to the west coast, the King and Crown Prince Olaf arrived in Otta on the night of April 13.
Otta and .
It is also said to be Freyja's human lover, Otta, in disguise, and is the reason why Loki consistently accuses her of being " wanton " by riding her lover in public.
* In Norse mythology, Hildisvini, also known as " Otta the Simple ", who was Freya's lover.
* Otta ( weapon ), a curved stick used in the Indian martial art of Kalarippayattu.
Otley's name is derived from Othe, Otho or Otta, a Saxon personal name and leah, a woodland clearing in Old English.
It was not until the evening of the 21st that the King was able to travel by road from Otta to Lesja on the east-west watershed and then down the narrow Romsdal to Åndalsnes.
The municipality lies along the Otta river between the mountainous areas of Breheim and Reinheim.
The river Otta begins in Skjåk municipality and flows into Vågåvatn Lake.
Exiting Vågåvatn at Vågåmo, the river continues its journey through the Ottadalen valley leaving Vågå municipality to meet the Gudbrandsdalslågen at Otta in the municipality of Sel.
The old Norse saga ( Conversion of Dale-Gudbrand ) relates that after King Olaf stayed several nights in Lesja, he proceeded south across the uplands to the Ottadal, and the beautiful hamlet lying there on both sides of the Otta river.
The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Otta.
Otta, named after the Otta River, is the population center.
Otta lies at the point where the Otta River joins the Gudbrandsdalslågen from the west.
The Otta River leads up to the historically important Vågå and Lom regions and the passes to the west over Jotunheimen.
Selsverket was the copper works from the 18th century which was located approximately 2 kilometers north of Otta.
Japanese migration in the region began as two Japanese entrepreneurs, Kyosaburo Otta and Yoshizo Furokawa, were finding better agricultural lands for building abaca and coconut plantations in the region.
1612-In the Battle of Kringen, near Otta in Gudbrandsdalen, local peasants defeated a Scottish mercenary army.
Particularly heavy fighting took place in places like Tretten, Fåvang, Vinstra, Kvam, Sjoa and Otta.
In the mid 1930s the Norwegian State Railways ( Norges Statsbaner or NSB ) ordered altogether eighteen powerful superheated four-cylinder compound 1 ' D2 '- h4v ( 2-8-4 ) passenger locomotives for express and passenger train service on its single main line between Oslo and Trondheim, on the northern section between Otta and Trondheim.
Ota ( alternatively spelled Otta ') is a town in Ogun State, Nigeria, and has an estimated 163, 783 residents living in or around it Ota is the capital of the Ado-Odo / Ota Local Government Area.
Otta and –
* Oslo – Trondheim ( Dovrebanen ) ( via: Lillestrøm, Oslo Airport Gardermoen, Hamar, Brumunddal, Moelv, Lillehammer, Hunderfossen, Ringebu, Vinstra, Kvam, Otta, Dovre, Dombås, Hjerkinn, Kongsvoll, Oppdal, Berkåk, Støren, Heimdal, Trondheim S )
Otta and Line
Otta is also an important link on the Dovre Line, since Otta Station is the only station in the valley where every single passing passenger train stops.
Otta and North
Situated 110 kilometers North from Lillehammer, it spans the valley floor where Ottadalen branches of Gudbrandsdal and the largely glacial fed, most of its 4000km ^ 2 watershed being in a very arid region, Otta ( river ) merges into Gudbrandsdalslågen
Otta and ).
* Kringen-In 1612, a peasant militia ambushed Scots marching to support Sweden at Kringen ( the narrowest part of the Gudbrandsdal valley, just below the confluence of the Otta and the Gudbrandsdalslågen ).
Norway and 1940
* 1940 – World War II: Operation Weserübung – Germany invades Denmark and Norway.
* 1940 – Vidkun Quisling seizes power in Norway.
* 1940 – World War II: Royal Marines land in Namsos, Norway in preparation for a larger force to arrive two days later.
In 1940, the Germans invaded Norway and the Nazi party took over the government.
At first Germany's military moves were brilliantly successful, as in the " blitzkrieg " invasions of Poland ( 1939 ), Norway ( 1940 ), the Low Countries ( 1940 ), and above all the stunningly successful invasion and quick conquest of France in 1940.
During World War II, continental Norway was invaded and occupied by Germany in spring 1940.
Terboven was made Reichskommissar for Norway on 24 April 1940, even before the military invasion was completed on 7 June 1940.
* 1940 – World War II: Norway surrenders to German forces.
This was almost complete when Schwitters left Norway for England in 1940.
Schwitters started a second Merzbau while in exile in Lysaker nearby Oslo, Norway in 1937 but abandoned it in 1940 when the Nazis invaded ; this Merzbau was subsequently destroyed in a fire in 1951.
As one example, Luftflotte 5 was created in 1940 to direct operations in Norway and Denmark, and other Luftflotten were created as necessary.
In the spring of 1940, the Luftwaffe assisted the Kriegsmarine and Heer in the daring invasion of Norway, Operation Weserübung.
* 1940 – World War II: Norwegian Campaign – Norwegian squads in Hegra Fortress and Vinjesvingen capitulate to the Nazis after all other Norwegian forces in southern Norway had laid down their arms.
* 1940 – The Norway Debate in the British House of Commons begins, and leads to the replacement of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain with Winston Churchill three days later.
* 1940 – World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik in Norway.
Later in the spring of 1940, the Kriegsmarine became even more opposed to invading Britain after its Pyrrhic victory in Norway.
Margaret Thatcher's party forced her from power after the introduction of the poll tax ; Sir Anthony Eden fell from power following the Suez Crisis ; and Neville Chamberlain resigned in 1940 after the Allies were forced to retreat from Norway, as he believed a government supported by all parties was essential, and the Labour and Liberal parties would not join a government headed by him.
On 16 May 1940 the Administrasjonsrådet asked Rikskommisariatet why radio receivers had been confiscated from Jews in Norway.
The German Army and the German Kriegsmarine invaded Norway in 1940 and the German Army occupied all of Norway until May 1945.
During World War II a Norwegian naval unit nicknamed the " Shetland Bus " was established by the Special Operations Executive in the autumn of 1940 with a base first at Lunna and later in Scalloway to conduct operations around the coast of Norway.
In the years leading up to 1940, research was more strongly linked with the growth of the nation, with progress and self-assertion ; research was also seen to contribute to Norway ’ s commitment to international academic and cultural development.
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