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Norway Dictionary of History

Norway Dictionary of History

From the Middle Ages to the Modern Age. At the time of the great migrations, Germanic tribes entered Norway forming numerous political groupings, in which the aborigines of perhaps Finnish race were incorporated. From the 8th century. with the Viking expeditions began the great expansion of the Norwegians outside (Scotland, England, Ireland, Iceland, etc.); the various Norwegian political-social groups united under the sovereignty of the Ynglinger, whose first historical figure is in the 9th century. Halvdan Svarte (the Black). Olaf…

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Norway Dantesque Encyclopedia

Norway Dantesque Encyclopedia

Norway. – Scandinavian region, in which the Germanic element, having reached the time of the great migrations, prevailed over the aborigines, who were incorporated or marginalized. Towards the middle of the century IX began a process of national unification, then reinforced by the Christianization that developed in the following two centuries. In the secc. XII and XIII the Norway was troubled by struggles for the throne, until, towards 1240, the sovereign power was strengthened under Haakon IV; In the second…

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Norway History – from 1981 to 1991

Norway History – from 1981 to 1991

The government chaired by Odvor Nordli, who in the office of prime minister was replaced for health reasons (Jan. 1981) by Gro Harlem Brundtland from the left wing of the Labor Party, was troubled by problems of foreign policy, in particular by questions relating to Norway’s position in NATO. In fact, while not questioning the permanence in the Atlantic Alliance, the Norway had placed over the years increasing limits to the type of military presence of the Alliance, not allowing…

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Norway in the 1960’s and 1970’s

Norway in the 1960’s and 1970’s

The most controversial issue of Norway’s policy – EEC membership – has acted as a catalyst on the characterizing process of domestic politics in the last fifteen years: the crisis of the Norwegian party system. Crisis not only of the “bourgeois” opposition, more articulated than the Swedish prototype due to a system of cleavages particularly complex, but even more so than the social democratic hegemony. The elections of 1961 marked the beginning: the Social Democrats lost the absolute majority, held…

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Norway Literature – From the Origins to the Modern Age

Norway Literature – From the Origins to the Modern Age

From the Middle Ages to the 18th century – According to smber, the literature that flourished in Norway from the Viking age, ie from about the 9th to the 14th century, cannot be separated from that of the Norwegian colonies established on the islands of the North Atlantic. In Iceland, indeed, after the great immigration of the Norse rebels to the political absolutism of Harald Fairhair (9th-10th century), the culture soon surpassed that of the motherland, so much so that…

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Norway Literature – The Contemporary Age

Norway Literature – The Contemporary Age

Since the end of the 19th century. to the 1950s. – The years after 1890 also saw in Norway the decline of naturalism and the flourishing of irrationalistic, idealistic and religious currents. Alongside the playwright G. Heiberg, who moves in the wake of Ibsen, the names of the neo- romantic HE Kink and the subtle critic Norway Kjaer emerge in the prose, but dominant, since the first novel Sult (“Fame”, 1892) is the personality romantic-aristocratic by K. Hamsun, world-famous author…

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Norway Literature During and after the First World War

Norway Literature During and after the First World War

During and after the First World War, the currents of thought that still dominate contemporary cultural life emerge in Norway. But the picture of this here is far less complex and varied than in Sweden, where the antagonism between old and new is concretized in a veritable assault by the young generation on what it calls “Swedish Alexandria”. In Norway, while there are no primitivists or vitalists inspired by Whitman and Lawrence (except perhaps Waldemar Brøgger), there is a strong…

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Norway Modern Arts

Norway Modern Arts

Norway. (or Greenland Sea ; norv. Norskehavet). Sea area (approx.1.550.000 km 2) between the Norway to the East, the Bear Island and Svalbard to the NE, the Faroe Islands and the Shetlands to the South, Ireland to the SW, Greenland to the West. the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic Ocean. The warm and salty water of the Atlantic (Gulf Stream, at 4-8 ° C) penetrates between the Faroes and the Shetlands and laps the Norwegian coasts…

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Norway Music and Cinema

Norway Music and Cinema

Music Between the 1920s and the immediate postwar period, Norwegian music was characterized by a general revival and reworking of forms drawn from popular tradition, especially through the work of composers belonging to the older generation, such as H. Saeverud (b.1897), DM Johansen (1888-1974), LI Jensen (1894-1969), B. Brustad (1895-1978), K. Egge (1906-1979), E. Groven (b.1901), O. Kielland (b. 1901), S. Olsen (b. 1903) and G. Tveitt (b. 1908). In particular, Saeverud is one of the most representative figures of…

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Norway Sculpture, Painting and Arts

Norway Sculpture, Painting and Arts

Until the second half of the century. 11 °, Norway was still part of an ancient ‘stylistic territory’ which also included Denmark and Sweden and whose artistic ideals, although not fully homogeneous, had their origin in a common tradition. The consolidation of the ecclesiastical organization and the development of commercial, diplomatic and political relations with the continent put an end to this unity, so much so that starting from around 1100. the three kingdoms each followed their own path, according…

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Norway Transportation

Norway Transportation

Sea transport and ports. – From the end of the century. XIX to the present day the Norwegian navy has made great progress; its percentage in world shipping increased from 3% in 1896 to 6.1% on June 30, 1933. It was almost the only one that has honored sailing for the longest time; up to 1890, in fact – despite the ever more rapid advent of steam in the world -, of the 7432 units that made up the ship,…

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Norway Brief History

Norway Brief History

From the Middle Ages to the modern age At the time of the great migrations, Germanic tribes entered Norway forming numerous political groupings, in which the aborigines of perhaps Finnish race were incorporated. From the 8th century. began, with the Viking expeditions, the great expansion of the Norwegians outside (Scotland, England, Ireland, Iceland etc .; ➔ Normans); the various Norwegian political-social groups united under the sovereignty of the Ynglinger, whose first historical figure is in the 9th century. Halvdan Svarte…

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Norway Arts

Norway Arts

Alongside the close relationship with nature and the strong narrative trait, which has always been characteristic of the art of Norway, the artistic panorama of the Eighties also shows the persistence of the expressionistic tendency, typical of 20th century art starting from E Munch. But while the previous decades were characterized by a conscious isolationism, based on the fear of the effects of commodification and debasement connected with the art market, the 1980s saw an increase in knowledge and interest…

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Norway Early History

Norway Early History

From the latest research it seems that man has inhabited Norway since the last interglacial period, and has spent the last glacial period on small strips of ice-free land along the Finnmarken and Møre coast. But still for millennia one cannot speak of state formations. According to A2zdirectory, small states in embryos must have existed since the Bronze Age, since the men who built the enormous burial mounds along the coast at that time must have been leaders who governed…

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Norway Economic Conditions

Norway Economic Conditions

Agriculture. – Of the population in 1920, 36.8% were devoted to agriculture, fishing and forestry; 27.4% of the population was employed in industries; 11.1% were dedicated to trade; 9.1% to housework; 8.6% to merchant navy and transport. According to Smber, the total area of ​​cultivated land is 778,768 hectares (equal to 2.5% of the total surface), planted with crops and artificial lawns. To this must be added 22,036 hectares of natural meadows. The arable land, largely marshy, is estimated at…

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Norway Geography

Norway Geography

Norway State of north-western Europe, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean and dependent seas (of Barents, Norway, North) for its 3400 km of coastal perimeter, while by land it borders to the NE with Russia ( for 120 km) and Finland (for 800 km), to the East with Sweden (for 1650 km). Morphology According to directoryaah, the territory has distinct and overall unitary peculiarities, despite its considerable extension in the sense of latitude: the two fundamental morphological elements interpenetrate each other, the…

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Norway Population and Literature

Norway Population and Literature

Population and its distribution In the last decade, the Norwegian population has increased by only 320,000 units: this has further reduced the annual growth coefficient from 0.8% (average of the years 1960-63) to 0.7% (average of the years 1970- 73). According to the census of November 1970 the Norway was inhabited by 3,888,305 residents, while the estimates for 1976 assigned the town a popol. of 4,013,000 residents, a value that remains low compared to the European average levels (see table)….

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Norway Higher Education

Norway Higher Education

Norway stretches 1,752 km from south to north, and approx. half of the country lies north of the Arctic Circle. The country is divided into counties, which correspond to the former Danish counties. In other words, Norway is a country located in Northern Europe as defined by CountryAAH. Historically, Norway has been a relatively poor farming community, but with the discovery of huge oil and gas reserves in the Norwegian subsoil, the country has developed into one of the richest…

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Vocational Education in Norway

Vocational Education in Norway

You can take all or part of your education in Norway. The Nordic countries have entered into an agreement that ensures free movement, so you can easily get an internship or look for work in Norway. The Norwegian language has two official written forms, namely Bokmål and Nynorsk. Bokmål is developed on the basis of Danish written language, whereas Nynorsk has been developed on the basis of Norwegian dialects. In addition, Sami is spoken, which is used by an ethnic…

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