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History Of Norway: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Norway - Independent Monarchy
Norway's kings (Norges Konge is the official style) in modern times, with periods of reign, are:
Haakon VII (1905-1957)
Olav V (1957-199...
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Thor Heyerdahl: Encyclopedia Ii - Thor Heyerdahl - Other Work
Thor Heyerdahl also investigated the pyramidal mounds found on the Maldive Islands in the Indian Ocean. There, he found sun-oriented moun...
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History Of Norway: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Norway - Union With Sweden
Main article: Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway
In 1814 Denmark-Norway was defeated in the Napoleonic wars and the king was forced to cede No...
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History Of Norway: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Norway - The Kalmar Union And The Union With Denmark
Norway was relegated to a virtual provincial status from 1396 until 1814; this period was called "the 400-year-night" by Henrik Ibsen dur...
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History Of Norway: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Norway - The Viking Kings
See also: Viking Age
By the time of the first historical records of Scandinavia, about the 700s AD, some 29 petty kingdoms existed in Nor...
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History Of Norway: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Norway - Earliest Times 10 000 Bc -
Recent archeological finds (2005) have it that hunters from the south - most likely the Hamburg culture - in summer time could travel far...
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Thor Heyerdahl: Encyclopedia Ii - Thor Heyerdahl - The Kon-tiki Expedition
This expedition demonstrated there were no technical reasons to prevent people from South America from having settled the Polynesian Isla...
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