Events in the year 1917 in Norway. Monarch – Haakon VII. The Bratsberg Line began rail traffic between Eidanger and Notodden. The line was closed in 2001...
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The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1917 in Norwegian music. February 18 – Eva Gustavson, operatic contralto (died 2009)...
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Results from Norwegian association football in the year 1917. 14 October 1917 Stavanger stadion, Stavanger Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Arne Wendelborg (Frigg)...
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The 1917 Norwegian Football Cup was the 16th season of the Norwegian annual knockout football tournament. For the first time, the tournament was open for...
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1917 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1917. 1917 (MCMXVII)...
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bronze. 1917 also saw the last issuance of 2 kroner coins. During the German occupation of Norway in the Second World War, zinc was used in place of...
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The Sámi Assembly of 1917 was the first Sámi National Assembly. The Sámi who took part in the assembly were from both Norway and Sweden. The meeting was...
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Bergen (redirect from Bergen (Norway))
Bergen (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈbæ̀rɡən] ), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. As of...
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Norwegian (Norwegian: norsk [ˈnɔʂːk] ) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family spoken mainly in Norway, where it is an official...
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Demographic features of the population of Norway, including Jan Mayen, and Svalbard, where the hospital is not equipped for births, include population...
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Bokmål (redirect from Norwegian (bokmål) language)
by far the most used written form of Norwegian today, as it is adopted by 85% to 90% of the population in Norway. There is no countrywide standard or...
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Norwegian banknotes are circulated, in addition to Norwegian coins, with a denomination of Norwegian kroner, as standard units of currency in Norway. From...
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Jan Baalsrud (category 1917 births)
December 1917 – 30 December 1988) was a commando in the Norwegian resistance trained by the British during World War II. Jan Baalsrud was born in Kristiania...
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Russian Revolution (redirect from Revolution of 1917)
Russian Revolution was a period of political and social change in Russia, starting in 1917. This period saw Russia abolish its monarchy and adopt a socialist...
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Haakon VII (redirect from Håkon VII of Norway)
Haakon VII (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈhôːkʊn]; 3 August 1872 – 21 September 1957) was King of Norway from 18 November 1905 until his death in 1957. The...
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Augustana Academy (category Norwegian-American culture in South Dakota)
school students. In 1917 the Norwegian Synod, Hauge Synod and the United Norwegian Lutheran Church in America merged to become the Norwegian Lutheran Church...
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SM U-19 (Germany) (category U-boats commissioned in 1913)
Johannes Spiess, who was relieved in turn on 1 June 1917, by Heinrich Koch. Koch turned the boat over on 25 October 1917, to Hans Albrecht Liebeskind, who...
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The Neutral Ally (redirect from Norway in World War I)
warfare at the beginning of 1917. In total, 436 Norwegian ships were sunk by German submarines in the period 1914–1917, out of 847 in the course of the whole...
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There are 697 tunnels and 2,760 bridges. The Norwegian Railway Directorate manages the railway network in Norway on behalf of the Ministry of Transportation...
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SM U-55 (category Ships built in Kiel)
through the Channel. Returned damaged through touching ground in fog. 30th March - ? 23rd April 1917. To S.W. of Ireland and Channel approaches, uncertain whether...
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history of Jews in Norway dates back to the 1400s. Although there were very likely Jewish merchants, sailors and others who entered Norway during the Middle...
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The Norwegian monarch is the head of state of Norway, which is a constitutional and hereditary monarchy with a parliamentary system. The Norwegian monarchy...
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sold to the United States in 1917. It became the U.S. Virgin Islands. In the Gold Coast region of West Africa, Denmark–Norway also over time had control...
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Knut (category Norwegian masculine given names)
American-born Norwegian soldier and resistance fighter Knut Schmidt-Nielsen (1915–2007), Norwegian-born American biologist Knut Haugland (1917–2009), Norwegian resistance...
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Skoggangsmand (category Novels set in Norway)
(English: Outlaw) is a novel from 1917, the debut novel of Norwegian writer Mikkjel Fønhus. The story is set in rural Norway. The main character is a wild-tempered...
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retaining contact with Norway, especially with the town of Vardø. Some settlers returned to Norway shortly after the Russian Revolution of 1917, but most of them...
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Digraph (orthography) (section In alphabetization)
Slovak, relatively rare digraph In Danish and Norwegian: The digraph ⟨aa⟩ represented /ɔ/ until 1917 in Norway and 1948 in Denmark, but is today spelt ⟨å⟩...
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(1917–2003), Norwegian banker and politician for the Christian Democratic Party Christen Bentsen Schaaning (1616–1679), priest at Avaldsnes in Norway from...
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The Norway national football team (Norwegian: Norges herrelandslag i fotball, or informally Landslaget) represents Norway in men's international football...
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in 1917, after Finland's independence. Finland has an embassy in Oslo. Norway has an embassy in Helsinki. For some decades surrounding 1900, many in Norway...
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