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  Norway: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
Norway was a nonbelligerent during World War I, but as a result of the German invasion and occupation during World War II, Norwegians generally became skeptical of the concept of neutrality and turned instead to collective security.
Norway was one of the signers of the North Atlantic Treaty in 1949 and was a founding member of the United Nations.
Norway straddles the North Atlantic Ocean for its entire length, bound by three different seas: the North Sea to the southwest and its large inlet the Skagerak[?] to the south, the Norwegian Sea to the west and the Barents Sea to the northeast.
www.encyclopedian.com /no/Norway.html   (1052 words)

  
 Norway - Article
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway (Norwegian: Kongeriket Norge or Kongeriket Noreg) is a Nordic country on the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, bordering Sweden, Finland and Russia.
Norway is bounded by seas of the North Atlantic Ocean: the North Sea to the southwest and its large inlet the Skagerrak to the south, and the Norwegian Sea to the west.
Norway is the homeland of expressionist painter Edvard Munch and the sculptor Gustav Vigeland and romanticist composer Edvard Grieg.
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  Norway
Norway was a nonbelligerent during World War I, but as a result of the German invasion and occupation during World War II, Norwegians generally became skeptical of the concept of neutrality and turned instead to collective security.
Norway was one of the signers of the North Atlantic Treaty in 1949 and was a founding member of the United Nations.
Norway straddles the North Atlantic Ocean for its entire length, bound by three different seas: the North Sea to the southwest and its large inlet the Skagerak[?] to the south, the Norwegian Sea to the west and the Barents Sea to the northeast.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/no/Noreg.html   (1032 words)

  
 Norway - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Norway, or officially the Kingdom of Norway (Norwegian: Kongeriket Norge or Kongeriket Noreg) is a Nordic country on the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, bordering Sweden, Finland and Russia.
Norway's growing dissatisfaction with the union with Sweden during the late 19th century, combined with National Romanticism and the growing national culture coming from it, led to the dissolution of the union on 7 June 1905.
Norway is bounded for its entire length by seas of the North Atlantic Ocean: the North Sea to the southwest and its large inlet the Skagerrak to the south, the Norwegian Sea to the west, and the Barents Sea to the northeast.
www.netipedia.com /index.php/Norway   (3195 words)

  
 Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How
The nearby island territories of Svalbard and Jan Mayen are under Norwegian sovereignty and are considered by Norway as part of the kingdom, while Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic Ocean and Peter I Island in the South Pacific Ocean are Norwegian dependencies and not considered part of the kingdom.
Norway was a nonbelligerent during World War I, but was invaded by German forces in 1940 (Operation Weserübung).
Norway straddles the North Atlantic Ocean for its entire length, bound by three different seas: the North Sea to the southwest and its large inlet the Skagerrak to the south, the Norwegian Sea to the west and the Barents Sea to the northeast.
www.irelandinformationguide.com /Norway   (1271 words)

  
 directopedia : Directory : Regional : Europe : Norway
As Norway was the weaker part of a union that kept all of its royal, intellectual, and administrative power in Copenhagen, Denmark, this period is sometimes known as the "400-Year Night".
Norway took this opportunity to declare her independence, adopted a constitution based on American and French models and elected the Danish prince Christian Fredrik as king on 17 May 1814.
Norway's growing dissatisfation with the union with Sweden during the late 19th century, combined with National Romanticism and the growing national culture coming from it, led to the dissolution of the union on 7 June 1905.
www.directopedia.org /directory/Regional-Europe/Norway.shtml   (2734 words)

  
 Norway Resource Center - map of norway
The Kingdom of Norway is a Nordic norway government country on the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, bordering Sweden, Finland and Russia, with territorial waters bordering Danish and British waters.
Norway was a neutral country cha cha cha in norway during World War samba in norway I. Norway also attempted to claim neutrality during World War II, but was invaded by German forces on the 9th of April 1940 (Operation Weserübung).
Norway is bounded for its entire length reisser norway by seas of the North Atlantic Ocean: the North Sea to the southwest and its large inlet the Skagerrak to the south, the Norwegian Sea to the west, and the Barents Sea to the northeast.
www.taxgloss.com /Tax-Banks_L_-_O-/Norway.html   (2541 words)

  
 Norway - OneLook Dictionary Search
Norway : Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition [home, info]
Norway, Norway : CIA World Factbook [home, info]
Phrases that include Norway: capital of norway, norway pine, maid of norway, margaret maid of norway, norway lemming, more...
www.onelook.com /?w=Norway   (226 words)

  
 Norway - Enpsychlopedia
Norway has mandatory military service of eighteen months for men between the ages of eighteen (17 with parental consent) and forty four.
Many supporters of whaling agree that its macroeconomic importance is negligible, but hold that the livelihood of individuals and small firms depend on it and that sustainable development depends on human harvesting of all non-endangered species ([6]).
Norway's whaling today is limited to the Minke Whale, which also accounts for more than 90% of the catch in Norwegian waters since the 1920's ([7]).
enpsychlopedia.org /psypsych/Norway   (3128 words)

  
 Top20Norway.com - Your Top20 Guide to Norway!
The Kingdom of Norway is a Nordic country on the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, bordering Sweden, Finland and Russia, with territorial waters bordering Danish and British waters.
Norway's extensive coastline along the North Atlantic Ocean, is where its famous fjords are found, and the country also has a very elongated form, Oslo in fact being closer to Rome than to Norway's northern regions!
Norway was forced into a personal union with Sweden, but kept its liberal constitution and independent institutions, except for the foreign service.
top20norway.com   (2541 words)

  
 Nes - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
A municipality in the county of Buskerud in Norway, see Nes, Buskerud.
A former municipality in the county of Hedmark in Norway, see Nes, Hedmark.
This article consisting of geographical locations is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Nes   (310 words)

  
 Tonsberg - LoveToKnow 1911
TONSBERG, a fortified seaport of Norway, in JarlsbergLaurvik amt (county), situated on a bay on the south coast, near the entrance to Christiania Fjord, 72 m.
It is one of the most ancient towns in Norway.
It is the headquarters of a sealing and whaling fleet.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Tonsberg   (118 words)

  
 1000Countries.com: Norway II: norway, NORWAY   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Norway is a long, narrow country on the northwestern edge of the European continent.
Norway is a country with breathtaking sceneries and amazing contrasts: majestic fjords...
Norway’s relations with the EU are mainly governed by the Agreement on the European Economic Area...
www.1000countries.com /countries_of_the_world/norway_2.html   (2110 words)

  
 Norway (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Norway may also refer to places in the United States of America:
The SS France sailed for much of its operational life as SS Norway.
This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Norway_(disambiguation)   (104 words)

  
 Bergen travel guide - Wikitravel
Bergen is the southern terminus for Hurtigruten, which is a week-long passenger ship route all the way to Kirkenes in the far north of Norway.
The main carriers in Norway are SAS and the low cost carrier Norwegian Air Shuttle.
This is one of Norway's tradition stave churches - churches built in a distinctive style using the logs of trees as pillars, by the early Christians.
wikitravel.org /en/Bergen   (2292 words)

  
 Oslo, Norway   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A century later Norway was the weaker part in a personal union with Denmark, and Oslo's role was reduced to that of provincial administrative centre, with the kings residing in Copenhagen.
Oslo's centrality in the political, cultural and economical life of Norway continues to be a source of considerable controversy and friction.
The city of Oslo constitutes a county of Norway.
www.creekin.net /c5433-n139-oslo-norway.html   (1659 words)

  
 Britain.tv Wikipedia - Vikings
The period of North Germanic expansion, usually taken to last from the earliest recorded raids in the 790s until the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, is commonly called the Viking Age.
Geographically, a "Viking Age"?title=may be assigned not only to the Scandinavian lands (modern Denmark, Norway and Sweden), but also to territories under North Germanic dominance, mainly the Danelaw, Scotland, the Isle of Man and Ireland.
There, they were mistaken for merchants by a royal official, and they murdered him when he tried to get them to accompany him to the king's manor to pay a trading tax on their goods.
www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Vikings   (5253 words)

  
 Sweden travel guide - Wikitravel
It borders Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark via the bridge of Öresund (Öresundsbron).
Norway: Main connections between Oslo and Stockholm and Gothenburg as well as connections between Trondheim - Åre - Östersund and Narvik - Kiruna - Boden - Stockholm.
Access to alcoholic beverages is, as in Norway and Finland, quite restricted and more expensive than in other countries.
wikitravel.org /en/Sweden   (3176 words)

  
 Hotel Oslo
Oslo is the capital city and a county in Norway.
The reason the university was established as late as 1811, is that Norway and Denmark prior to 1814 were in a personal union (see Denmark-Norway), with Copenhagen being the common capital.
As Norway is a largely social democratic society, the university charges only a minor tuition of 100 NOK (primarily a copy fee).
www.artistbooking.com /trips/95/hotel-oslo.html   (1293 words)

  
 Scandinavia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Nordic countries include Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway (including Svalbard), Sweden and associated autonomous territories (Åland, Faroe Islands and Greenland).
The three countries that form Scandinavia came to be viewed as a single political and cultural region during the height of the nationalist movements in these countries in the middle of the 19th century (Scandinavism).
Norway (including Bohuslän, Härjedalen, Jämtland and Idre and Särna in modern-day Sweden.
www.higiena-system.com /wiki/link-Scandinavia   (2631 words)

  
 Greenland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The island's ties with Norway were severed by the Treaty of Kiel of 1814, through which Sweden gained control over mainland Norway while Denmark retained all of their common overseas possessions, which, at that time, included small territories in India, West Africa and the West Indies, as well as the Faroe Islands, Iceland and Greenland.
Norway occupied and claimed parts of (then uninhabited) East Greenland aka Erik the Red's Land in July 1931, claiming that it constituted Terra nullius.
Norway and Denmark agreed to settle the matter at the Permanent Court of International Justice in 1933, where Norway lost.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greenland   (2373 words)

  
 Viking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term Viking is used to denote the ship-borne explorers, traders and warriors who originated in Norway, Iceland, Denmark and Sweden and raided the coasts of the British Isles, France and other parts of Europe from the late 8th century to the 11th century.
Geographically, a "Viking Age" may be assigned not only to the Scandinavian lands (modern Denmark, and southern Norway and Sweden), but also to territories under North Germanic dominance, mainly the Danelaw, Scotland, the Isle of Man and Ireland.
The earliest date given for a Viking raid is 787 AD when, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a group of men from Norway sailed to Portland, in Dorset.
www.higiena-system.com /wiki/link-Viking   (3130 words)

  
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For conciseness, ambiguous context-free grammars are frequently used to define even completely unambiguous languages and numerous disambiguation methods exist for specifying which interpretation is the intended one for each sentence.
A filter is a function that selects from a set of parse trees (the canonical representation of the interpretations of a sentence) the intended trees.
A disambiguation filter is a function that selects a subset from a set of parse trees---the possible parse trees for an ambiguous sentence.
www.cs.uu.nl /~visser/strategoxt-pubs/strategoxt.bib   (701 words)

  
 Norway infoTurkish.com Herşey Hakkında Türkçe Bilgi
Norway was a neutral country during World War I. Norway also attempted to claim neutrality during World War II, but was invaded by German forces on the 9th of April 1940 (Operation Weserübung).
Armed resistance in Norway went on for two months, but the King and government continued the fight from exile in Britain.
Accordingly, Norway has been saving its oil-boosted budget surpluses in a Government Petroleum Fund, which is invested abroad and at the end of the first quarter of 2005 was valued at 170 billion US dollars (38000 per capita).
www.infoturkish.com /Turkey/Norway.html   (9295 words)

  
 Mil (disambiguation) - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A mil in Norway and Sweden is a distance of 10 kilometres.
Mil is the short name of a Soviet/Russian helicopter manufacturer: see Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant.
This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Mil   (358 words)

  
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Os or OS could signify The os is each end of the cervix, internal (to the uterus) and external (to the vagina) A municipality of the county Hedmark in Norway, see Os, Hedmark.
Oslo County NO-03 Administrative Centre Oslo County Mayor Per Ditlev-Simonsen Area 454 km² Population Density Oslo is the capital city of Norway, and has 518,929 inhabitants, which is 11.4% of the total population in Norway.
Osteoarthritis (or arthrosis) is caused by destruction of the synovium by wear and tear.
www.en-cyclopedia.com /index1/os   (1033 words)

  
 Troll Wikipedia, Flickr, Delicious Bash at Bashr.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
As a rule of thumb, what would be called a "troll" in Norway would in Denmark and Sweden be a "giant" (jætte or jätte, derived from jötunn).
Reversely, what would be called trolls in southern Sweden and Denmark would be called huldrefolk in Norway and vitterfolk in northern Sweden (see wight).
The south-Scandinavian term probably originate in a generalization of the terms haugtrold (mound-troll) or bergtroll (mountain-troll), as trolls in this tradition are residents of the underground.
www.bashr.com /en_bio_pics/Troll   (3003 words)

  
 Olaf - Gurupedia
The name Olaf (Olav), the name of the Saint, King Olaf II who is the patron of Norway, has also been the name of a number of other Norwegian kings.
Olaf II of Norway, Saint Olaf, king from 1015 - 1028
Olav V of Norway, king from from 1957 to 1991
www.gurupedia.com /o/ol/olaf.htm   (132 words)

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