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Bergen - Norway's second biggest city - TravelCom  ... granted municipal status to what was then known as Bjrgvin (or hill pasture). ... Until the 1830s, it was Norway's biggest city. ... The quaint wooden warehouses along the waterfront here were once the trading headquarters for the Hanseatic League. ... Bergen is home to an amazing market called Husfliden, which was...
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Free Flashcards about WORLD GEOGRAPHY - StudyStack  NORWAY'S 2ND-LARGEST CITY; IT WAS ONCE KNOWN AS BJORGVIN, OR "HILL PASTURE", BERGEN. RUSSIA'S LENA RIVER LIES WITHIN THIS LARGE,...
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Queen Maud Land - Wikipedia  Queen Maud Land (Norwegian: Dronning Maud Land) is a c. 2.7 million-square-kilometre (1 ... The claim is named after Queen Maud of Norway (18691938). ... On 14 January 1939, the territory was claimed by Norway. ... Early Norwegian research activities in Antarctica rested entirely on whaling and sealing expeditions...
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Why They Call It the Second City | Miscellany | Chicago Reader  Jul 29, 1993 ... With its population at 3.6 million, the city was still the country's second largest. ... Known then primarily for his New Yorker profiles, his war ... Liebling had recently left his staff position at the New Yorker to write a series of articles on ... Both the Daily News and the Herald-American, he discovered, had been...
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Tokyo - Wikipedia  Tokyo officially Tokyo Metropolis, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan, and is both the capital .... During the subsequent Edo period, Edo grew into one of the largest cities in the ..... As of March 31, 2008, 36% of the total land area of the prefecture was designated as Natural Parks (second only to ...... Retrieved April 20, 2015.
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Scandinavian Peninsula - New World Encyclopedia  Jan 22, 2009 ... The region known as Scandinavia is centered on the Scandinavian Peninsula. ... About one quarter of the peninsula lies north of the Arctic Circle, with the ... Lake Vnern and Lake Vttern, the largest of the country's lakes, do not ... and Gothenburg, both in Sweden, and Oslo in Norway are the largest cities.
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25 Things You Should Know About Oslo | Mental Floss  Mar 20, 2016 ... Say hei to 25 more facts about this Scandinavian city. 1. The original city was founded around 1050 by King Harald Hardrada, but destroyed in...
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Bergen travel guide - Wikitravel  Open source travel guide to Bergen, featuring up-to-date information on attractions, ... It was the country's administrative capital from the early 1200s until 1299, and the ... The city still has relics of its Hanseatic heyday, most notably the old harbor of ...... The royal hall, Hkonshallen, (Haakon's Hall), named for King Haakon...
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Porto - Wikipedia  Porto is the second largest city in Portugal after Lisbon and one of the major urban areas of the .... Porto is also called "Cidade Invicta" (English: Unvanquished City) after ... The population in Porto municipality dropped by nearly 100,000 since the .... The country's biggest exporter (Petrogal) has one of its two refineries near...
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40 of the world's most impressive "second cities" - Matador Network  Jul 1, 2014 ... The fifth largest city of the Nordic countries, Gothenburg, Sweden, is home to ... Second to Istanbul, Ankara isTurkey's capital and has a population of ... On the western coast of Norway, 278,000 people form the city of Bergen.
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Austria-Hungary - Wikipedia  Austria-Hungary also known by other names and often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian ... Austria-Hungary was geographically the second-largest country in Europe after .... It was often contracted to the Dual Monarchy in English, or simply referred to ..... They also joined the zone tariff system of the MV (Hungarian State...
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Oslo Travel Guide - Itineraries, attractions, interesting tourist places ...  The Old Town section reproduces an early 20th-century town and contains a petrol ... Vigeland's pieces are out there: sculptures of entwined lovers, tranquil ... to live in his palace, however, because he died four years before its completion. ... and it was known as Christiania for 300 years until it was renamed Oslo in 1925.
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Songs of Norway - The New York Times  Jun 29, 2003 ... I was determined to go to Norway some day and see the rugged countryside ... Ben, and I stayed, a place originally built in 1906 as a warehouse. ... of their own design on a lakeside hill about four miles south of Bergen. Called Troldhaugen (Mountain of the Trolls), this two-story house, .... Outside Bergen.
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Scandinavian Peninsula - Wikipedia  The Scandinavian Peninsula is a peninsula in Northern Europe, which generally comprises the ... Much of the population of the Scandinavian Peninsula is naturally ... The largest cities of the peninsula are Stockholm, Sweden; Oslo, Norway; ... referred to as "Lapps" or "Laplanders," who began to arrive several thousand...
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Brno - Wikipedia  Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic by population and area, the largest ... The Asteroid 2889 Brno was named after the city, as well as the Bren light ... Court (cz: Moravsk Zemsk soud) were all seated in both cities at once. ... experiments in genetics while he was a monk at St. Thomas's Abbey in Brno.
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