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	ORESUND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Oresund or The Sound, is the strait that separates Zealand from Scania, and thereby Denmark from Sweden.
		Oresund connects the Baltic Sea to the Atlantic Ocean, and is one of the busiest waterways in the world.
		A bridge across the sound, the Oresund Bridge, was inaugurated on July 1, 2000 by King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden and Queen Margaret II of Denmark.
	www.yotor.org /wiki/en/or/Oresund.htm (203 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Oresund (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Oresund (Danish: Øresund, Swedish: Öresund, also known as The Sound) is the strait that separates the Danish island Zealand from the south Swedish province Scania (Skåne).
		Oresund is one of the three Danish Straits that connect the Baltic Sea to the Atlantic Ocean (via Kattegat, Skagerrak, and the North Sea), and is one of the busiest waterways in the world.
		The Oresund Bridge was inaugurated on July 1, 2000 by Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref?title=Oresund (536 words)

	ORESUND REGION
		The Oresund Region is a relevant choice for a model project as this region crosses two national borders (two EU member states) and comprises of resourceful parts of Denmark and Sweden.
		The Oresund Committee was established in 1993 by the local and regional authorities, together with the national authorities, as the regional policy forum for the cross-border co-operation between Copenhagen and Scania.
		The Oresund region as a pan national region will contribute to the development of a fertile environment of an experimental nature, which should benefit the creation of special conditions for new growth and innovative methods in the efforts to stimulate employment.
	www.oresund.com /oresund/creation/territorial.htm (1430 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Scandinavian mega-bridge set to open
		The 16 km (10-mile) bridge-tunnel link across the Oresund sound is one of the largest infrastructure projects in European history.
		The Oresund Sound has separated the two countries since the last ice age, but now the new link is expected to boost trade and jobs in the region.
		Oresund Consortium spokesman Ajs Dam said the project's overall budget of 18.9bn Danish kroner ($2.4bn) was on target.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/800447.stm (598 words)

	The Washington Times - Denmark
		The Oresund Region comprises the island of Sealand, Lolland-Falster and Bornholm in Denmark and Scania, the southernmost part of Sweden.
		Measure d by GNP standards the Oresund region is the 8th largest in Europe while in terms of education institutions and research it ranks fifth.
		Oresund University is not a building in a location -- it is an educational vision that has brought 120,000 students, 11 universities with 10,00 employees into a cooperate effort to produce top quality research, development and implementing minds into the new millennium to serve the Oresund Region.
	www.internationalspecialreports.com /archives/99/denmark/9.html (2678 words)

	ORESUND REGION
		With The Oresund Region as a hub, companies gain access to a Nordic market comprising 25 million consumers spending in excess of EUR 50 billion per capita annually on food, beverages and meals out.
		The Oresund Region is characterised by a well-educated workforce, and more than 25 percent of the population has benefited from third level education, placing Denmark and Sweden in the forefront of European nations.
		The Oresund Region is the only area that can offer sustainable service capability with regard to all three criteria: time, current GDP and growth.
	www.oresund.com /oresund/opportunities/food.htm (2303 words)

	The Oresund Crossing
		Another result of the Oresund Crossing project is that the general population and government in Denmark and Sweden are more aware of environmental issues.
		The fishing industry in the Oresund Sound and Baltic Sea is a major contributor to the economies of nations surrounding the sea.
		Culture: NO However, the cod stocks that may be affected in the Oresund Sound contribute to the livelihood and diet of the people in the Oresund Region.
	www.american.edu /ted/ORESUND.HTM (4031 words)

	Oresund—A New Northern European Region in the Making (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		An outstanding example of the latter is the ten-mile-long bridge/tunnel/artificial island complex that is being completed between Denmark and Sweden across the strait that connects the Kattegat to the Baltic Sea just to the east of Copenhagen (map p.
		This new rail-highway facility is called the Oresund Fixed Link (pronounced ERR-ruh-sun), named for the waterway it spans which means "the Sound" in Swedish.
		In geographic-conceptual terms, the most immediate change on the map of Northern Europe after mid-2000 will be the birth of the Oresund functional region, centered by the newly-united metropolis at its core.
	www.wiley.com /legacy/college/geog/deblij314242/vft_cd/aucol/au_col_02.html (505 words)

	Policy Brief: Territorial review of Oresund, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Oresund project which is intended to develop jointly Skane (Malmo) in Sweden and Zealand (Copenhagen) in Denmark is a major endeavour for the Danish and Swedish governments, given the potential economic growth that can be derived from the integration of one of the most highly populated and productive regions on the Baltic Sea.
		The significance of the project is reflected not only in the regional policy focus given to Oresund in both countries but also in the EU's support, notably through INTERREG, which considers Oresund a flagship programme.
		While progress has been achieved to better link the two regional economies, much remains to be done to remove barriers to integration and to define the strategic positioning of the area for the future.
	www.oecd.org /LongAbstract/0,2546,en_2649_34489_2498651_1_1_1_1,00.html (481 words)

	CNN.com - Scandinavian bridge brings mixed blessings - November 6, 2000
		Jorgensen boasts that Nokia has offices in Oresund because of the large student population, which totals 130,000 in the combined 11 universities.
		However, there are hundreds of businesses in the Oresund region that have already begun to join together for future endeavours.
		Unlike most infrastructure projects in Denmark and Sweden, the Oresund bridge was designed to be funded by the people who use it.
	edition.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/europe/scandinavia/11/06/denmark.bridge (1056 words)

	Graphicsteck - The Oresund Bridge
		Later that year the two parliaments ratified the agreement and scheduled the design to be completed by 1994.
		At 6 am on August 14, 1999 the final section of the Oresund bridge was placed in position by the floating crane, "Svanen".
		The Oresund Bridge is the world's longest single bridge carrying both road and railway traffic.
	www.graphicsteck.ca /vb/showthread.php?t=420&goto=nextoldest (468 words)

	New borders for the old world \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The bridge, which carries cars, trucks, and trains, promises to create an integrated transportation system stretching from the Swedish university city of Lund to the farming hinterlands of western Zealand, the large island on which Copenhagen is situated.
		Zealand's trade flows with Scania were 1/14th that of its trade with the similarly sized Danish region of Jutland, which is 100 miles from Copenhagen across another enormous bridge connecting Zealand with the rest of Denmark.
		The new "Oresund region" is still in its infancy, but Matthiessen and other supporters say the benefits are already visible.
	www.csmonitor.com /2001/0816/p11s1-wogi.html (1340 words)

	Oresund region
		Seen from the perspective of the Baltic Sea region as well as of Europe, the opening of one of the longest bridges in the world, the Oresund Bridge between Denmark and Sweden, on July 1st 2000 was an important landmark.
		The Oresund Bridge means the realisation of a cross-national region of 3 million inhabitants in a 50 km radius.
		The bridge notably strengthens Copenhagen and Southern Sweden and consolidates Denmark’s strategic role as the link between Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and the Baltic countries.
	www.workindenmark.dk /Oresund_region (96 words)

	Software Used to Study Stability of Scandinavian Bridge
		The strait of Oresund has heavy commercial traffic, including barges, car and train ferries, super tankers and cargo ships.
		The perimeters of the peninsula and the island have been completed and backfilling with materials dredged from Oresund is progressing rapidly.
		A casting yard for the elements for the almost 4-km-long tunnel, has been built at Copenhagen's north harbor, where casting of the tunnel elements began in November 1996.
	www.roadsbridges.com /rb/index.cfm/powergrid/rfah=\|cfap=/CFID/891874/CFTOKEN/18305365/fuseaction/showArticle/articleID/683 (1081 words)

	Khang Thing
		I had enrolled in the Oresund Summer University 2003, taking classes in Baltic Studies at Copenhagen University.
		The learning takes place in two phases: learning the course materials from enthusiastic lecturers, as well as exploring the city and the Oresund region with my classmates and people enrolled in other programs within the university.
		The best thing about the Oresund Summer University, however, are the friendship bonds that I have managed to develop with many of my classmates in this short period of time.
	www.uni.oresund.org /sw4021.asp?usepf=true (283 words)

	IndustryWeek : Bridge To Bilateralism?
		In fact, the executive director of the Danish Chamber of Commerce lashed out recently at politicians in Sweden and his own country for being slow in the task of region building.
		Institutions on either side of the sound have created the Oresund University, an educational consortium.
		The trains that cross the bridge often are crowded, and the ferries, though they have been forced to lower rates, are getting more business than ever before.
	www.industryweek.com /ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=965 (1233 words)

	International Railway Journal: Europe Shrinks With Oresund Link Opening. @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		THE inauguration of the DKr 29 billion ($US 3.5 billion), 15.8km Oresund road and rail link marks the culmination of one of Europe's largest construction projects ever and heralds the start of cross-border cooperation between the two nations divided by the Oresund.
		The opening ceremony began when two trains consisting of the new Contessa Oresund trains, carrying the Queen of Denmark and the King of Sweden, their prime ministers and invited guests, departed simultaneously from Copenhagen and Malm[ddot{o}] central stations.
		On the bridge itself for example, there was concern about secondary structure-borne noise in the centre, cable-stayed High Bridge section, while in the second-phase project to drive the City Tunnel in Malm[ddot{o}], a complicated finite element model is being used to predict noise and vibration transmission in order to prevent potential problems.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:63843802&refid=holomed_1 (2102 words)

	ASEE PRISM - Apr 2000 - Briefings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In July, the first of an estimated 3 million cars per year will cross the 9.8-mile-long (15.8 km) Oresund Link--which includes a bridge, a tunnel, and an artificial island--between the cities of Malmo, Sweden, and Copenhagen.
		Any of the three pieces of the two-level road and high-speed railway system, which took more than five years and $2 billion to build, would have been huge civil engineering projects in their own right.
		The Oresund Bridge includes the longest cable-stayed span in the world carrying both rail and vehicles.
	www.prism-magazine.org /april00/html/briefings2.cfm (1115 words)

	Oresund Bridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Oresund Bridge (joint Danish / Swedish hybrid name: Øresundsbron) is a combined rail and road bridge across Oresund connecting the Danish capital Copenhagen with the Swedish town Malmö.
		The last section was put down on August 14 1999.
		The dictum "art transcends politics" is aurally illustrated on this recording, which chronicles a seven-day get-together in Havana with American, English, and Cuban musicians in 1999.
	www.freeglossary.com /Oresund_Bridge (585 words)

	Oresund Bridge
		However, like the proposal to build a Channel bridge to span the 21-mile expanse of water between England and France, it was decided that this was technologically too difficult to achieve.
		Leif Pagrotsky, the minister for trade in the Swedish government has said the Oresund Bridge project "could serve as a model of integration for other countries in northern Europe and indeed as a model of cross-border co-operation in the rest of Europe."
		The Oresund Bridge is no doubt another step in the march towards a borderless Europe where individual countries are getting physically closer and closer together.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /TVSmalmo.htm (501 words)

	AllRefer.com - Oresund, Scandinavia (Scandinavian Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		AllRefer.com - Oresund, Scandinavia (Scandinavian Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
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		Oresund, c.45 mi (70 km) long, strait between the Danish island of Sjælland and Sweden, connecting the Kattegat with the Baltic Sea, to which it is the deepest channel.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/O/Oresund.html (171 words)

	Oresund - European cross-border integration, IRED.Com
		The 16-kilometers link was officially completed exactly 2 years ago in August 1999 and in the summer of 2000 the project was opened to the traffic.
		Now the Oresund bridge is the world's longest single bridge carrying both road and railway traffic.
		The first result was that the Oresund region became the 4th by its population and number of scientific output in the European Union only surpassed by London, Paris and Berlin.
	www.ired.com /news/mkt/oresund.htm (1028 words)

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		The opening of this link will also create the Oresund Region, an economic area jointly established by Sweden and Denmark, that will include among its specialties, biotechnology, medical devices, telecom, and electronics.
		The Oresund Region is also known as the Medicon Valley, because some people believe this area will become as important to medical research and production, as the Silicon Valley is to the semiconductor industry.
		The bridge is the result of 46 months of construction which started in October of 1995 with dredging to make room for the underwater tunnel, and formation of the artificial island of Peberholm.
	www.skatelog.com /countries/se/brorullet-announcement.htm (1096 words)

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