| | Norway - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Norway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | During the Viking period (8th–11th centuries), Vikings from Norway raided and later settled in the Orkney and Shetland Islands, and the Hebrides, and on the west coast of Scotland, and the east coast of Ireland. |
 | | Norway was made a province of Denmark (1536), forced to accept Christian III as king (ruled 1535–59), and compelled to adopt the Lutheran faith. |
 | | Norway suffered considerably in the constant wars between Sweden and Denmark (the former having seceded from the union in the early 16th century), losing the provinces of Härjedalen and Jämtland in 1645 and Bohuslän in 1658. |
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