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Oslo (before times Christiania, Kristiania every now and then also Xania) is the capital of Norway and has by numerous incorporations and constant population growth of meanwhile approximately 547,000 inhabitants, whereby the portion of the foreigners of the total population is with 23% (conditions January 2006). In the region Oslo live about 1 million inhabitant. The city created by the Wikingern is more than 1,000 years old. It forms today its own Fylke (administrative district) and is at the same time administrative seat of the neighbouring Fylke Akershus. According to a study of the Economist Oslo replaced the city Tokyo in January 2006 as the most expensive city of the world, which to date 14 years this position had taken.
In the Heimskringla, a history of the Norwegian kings, the Icelandic scholar maintains Snorri Sturluson that Oslo was created in the year 1048 by king Harald III.. Excavations of the recent time brought meanwhile Christian graves from the time around 1000 to the appearance. For this reason the city committed its thousand-year old anniversary in the year 2000, while 1950 only the 900ste birthday were committed. King Håkon V. made Akershus around 1300 Oslo the capital of Norway and let the fortress establish.
1624 were strongly devastated the city by a fire. At this time Norway was still another Danish province and by the Danish-Norwegian king Christian IVTH underneath the fortress Akershus under the name Christiania was again developed. The old Oslo lay outside of the stadtmauern of Christiania and despite royal prohibition was again settled, mainly from arms and land lots, which could not afford the expensive life in the modern Christiania. Denmark Norway was allied in the Napoleoni wars with France and Denmark had in consequence its Norway at Sweden transfer. 1877 changed under the Swedish-Norwegian king Oskar II. the official way of writing in Kristiania, and only 1925, twenty years after self-sufficiency of Norway, the city (after 300 years) the original name Oslo was shown. The monumental city hall of Oslo, whose establishment took decades up, i.e. from 1915 (first architectural competition) up to the completion 1950, can be considered to that again as symbol building won independence. Oslo meant translates either "level of the Gods" or "level underneath the hill" - last clarity over it is not any more to erlangen[1 ]. A Kosename of the city is Tigerstaden (tiger city), after a poem of Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson ("Sidste", 1870) sang. In this poem Oslo is described as dangerous and merciless city. Before the city hall and before the station tiger sculptures remind of this name, which lost its negative sound in the meantime.
At first sight unusual stadtwappen shows the holy Halvard, which had tried to save a woman from force authors then however by these with arrows perforated and with millstone drowned is weighted. The University of Oslo is the largest of the realm with approximately 30,000 students and 1811 after model of the Humboldt university in Berlin was based. 1952 took place the olympic winter plays in Oslo - among other things at the famous Holmenkollen.
Oslo has many objects of interest and the special flair of the internal fjord situation. Among the most important objects of interest rank: several ship museums (Wikingerschiffe, Fram museum, Kon Tiki) on Bygdøy the Vigeland plant in the Frognerpark with sculptures Gustav Vigelands the city hall, in that the annual award of the Nobel peace prize the Munch museum with the deduction of the painter EDP pool of broadcasting corporations Munch the ski jump plant Holmenkollen with the Holmenkollen ski museum the lock and the castle Akershus (Akershus slott og festning) takes place the royal lock (Slottet) Storting, the Norwegian parliament the Karl Johans gate, the central buying race in Oslo of the Osloer cathedral (Oslo Domkirke) the national gallery the national theatre the Norsk Folkemuseum (with open air museum) the Oslo Bymuseum (city museum) (property Frogner) the TV tower Tryvannstårnet...
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