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  1. Complete the sentence about Oslo with the correct year: After being destroyed by a fire in ______, during the reign of King Christian IV, a new city was built closer to Akershus Fortress and named Chr…
  2. Complete the sentence about Oslo with the correct year: In ______, Oslo merged with Aker, a municipality which surrounded the capital and which was 27 times larger, thus creating the modern, much larg…
  3. Complete the sentence about Bergen with the correct year: According to tradition, the city was founded in ______ by King Olav Kyrre and was named Bjørgvin, 'the green meadow among the mountains'.
  4. Complete the sentence about Bergen with the correct year: In ______ the municipality absorbed four surrounding municipalities and became a part of Hordaland county.
  5. Complete the sentence about Trondheim with the correct year: The settlement was founded in 997 as a trading post and served as the capital of Norway through the Viking Age until ______.
  6. Complete the sentence about Trondheim with the correct year: In ______, the name of the Norwegian capital city was changed from Kristiania to Oslo, removing the name referencing a Danish King in favor…
  7. Complete the sentence about Trondheim with the correct year: In ______, a referendum in Trondhjem was held on whether to keep the current name or to bring back the original name of Nidaros.
  8. Complete the sentence about Stavanger with the correct year: Located on the Stavanger Peninsula in southwest Norway, Stavanger counts its official founding year as ______, the year the Stavanger Cathe…
  9. Complete the sentence about Stavanger with the correct year: In ______, it was rated as the most liveable city for European expatriates in Norway as well as 5th in Europe by ECA International.
  10. Complete the sentence about Fredrikstad with the correct year: The rural municipality of Glemmen was merged with Fredrikstad on 1 January ______.
  11. Complete the sentence about Fredrikstad with the correct year: The rural municipalities of Borge, Onsøy, Kråkerøy, and Rolvsøy were merged with Fredrikstad on 1 January ______.
  12. Complete the sentence about Fredrikstad with the correct year: In ______, Fredrikstad was the final host port for the Tall Ships' Race, attracting thousands to the city.
  13. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The city was named after the Danish king Frederick II in ______.
  14. Complete the sentence about Kristiansand with the correct year: In ______, the well-preserved skeleton of a woman dating to approximately 6500 BC was discovered in Søgne, just west of the city of Kris…
  15. Complete the sentence about Sandnes with the correct year: On 6 April ______, the small city was separated from Høyland Municipality to form a separate self-governing municipality of its own.
  16. Complete the sentence about Sandnes with the correct year: In ______, the Storting decided that the number of municipalities in Norway would be lowered.
  17. Complete the sentence about Sandnes with the correct year: On 1 January ______, most of the neighboring Forsand Municipality was merged with Sandnes to form one large municipality called Sandnes.
  18. Complete the sentence about Tromsø with the correct year: The city centre contains the highest number of old wooden houses in Northern Norway, the oldest dating from ______.
  19. Complete the sentence about Tromsø with the correct year: The first church on the island of Tromsøya was erected in ______.
  20. Complete the sentence about Sarpsborg with the correct year: The coat-of-arms is from modern times and was granted on 13 November ______.
  21. Complete the sentence about Sarpsborg with the correct year: Much of the rebuilt town disappeared into the river Glomma during a ______ mudslide.
  22. Complete the sentence about Sarpsborg with the correct year: Again Borg was rebuilt, and it was recreated as a city in ______, and separated from Tune as a municipality of its own.
  23. Complete the sentence about Sarpsborg with the correct year: The rural municipalities of Tune, Skjeberg, and Varteig were merged with the city on 1 January ______.
  24. Complete the sentence about Ålesund with the correct year: In ______, the port of Aalesund was granted limited ladested rights.
  25. Complete the sentence about Ålesund with the correct year: On 1 January ______, the new formannskapsdistrikt law went into effect, granting limited local self-government to all parishes in Norway.
  26. Complete the sentence about Haugesund with the correct year: The national monument at Haraldshaugen was raised in ______, to commemorate the 1000th anniversary of the naval Battle of Hafrsfjord in 872…
  27. Complete the sentence about Haugesund with the correct year: Due to this fact, the new town was separated from the surrounding Torvastad Municipality on 1 February ______ to become a separate municipa…
  28. Complete the sentence about Haugesund with the correct year: In ______, Haugesund was designated as a kjøpstad, giving it full town status under the law.
  29. Complete the sentence about Tønsberg with the correct year: The rural Sem Municipality was merged with the city of Tønsberg on 1 January ______, creating a much larger Tønsberg Municipality.
  30. Complete the sentence about Moss, Norway with the correct year: The rural municipality of Jeløy was merged with the city on 1 July ______.
  31. Complete the sentence about Moss, Norway with the correct year: Liquor distilleries became one of the dominant industries, and it was not until ______, after the Reformation, that the town got its own…
  32. Complete the sentence about Moss, Norway with the correct year: In ______ a local resident built a "pleasure pavilion" near the town, which survives as the Hotel Refsnes Gods.
  33. Complete the sentence about Moss, Norway with the correct year: In ______, Moss became the site for the signing of the Convention of Moss, which effectively put an end to the Dano-Norwegian kingdom.
  34. Complete the sentence about Moss, Norway with the correct year: On the morning of 14 July ______, a bolide exploded above the nearby town of Rygge - moments later, several stony meteorites fell over M…
  35. Complete the sentence about Porsgrunn with the correct year: On 1 January ______, the kjøpstad of Porsgrunn was established as Porsgrunn Municipality.
  36. Complete the sentence about Bodø with the correct year: The current version which is a simplified, modern version of the old arms was granted on 24 July ______.
  37. Complete the sentence about Arendal with the correct year: The town of Arendal was given kjøpstad privileges on 1 May ______, giving it full "town status" along with all the trading privileges as othe…
  38. Complete the sentence about Arendal with the correct year: As a result of the rebellions, the age of privileges for towns like Christianssand and Arendal came to an apparent end in ______ by royal pro…
  39. Complete the sentence about Hamar with the correct year: The old version was first described in the anonymous Hamar Chronicle, written in ______.
  40. Complete the sentence about Hamar with the correct year: Between 500 and ______ AD, the Åker farm was one of the most important power centres in Norway, located just a few kilometres away from today's…
  41. Complete the sentence about Hamar with the correct year: Three coins found in Ringerike in ______ have been dated to the time of Harald Hardråde and are inscribed Olafr a Hamri.
  42. Complete the sentence about Hamar with the correct year: Much of the information about medieval Hamar is derived from the Hamar Chronicle, dated to about ______.
  43. Complete the sentence about Hamar with the correct year: After the Christianization of Norway in ______, Hamar began to gain influence as a centre for trade and religion.
  44. Complete the sentence about Larvik with the correct year: On 1 January ______, the unpopulated Tagtvedt area of Hedrum was transferred to Larvik.
  45. Complete the sentence about Larvik with the correct year: On 1 January ______, part of the Åsveien 3 property in Hedrum was transferred to the neighboring town of Larvik.
  46. Complete the sentence about Larvik with the correct year: On 1 January ______, Lardal Municipality was merged the neighboring Larvik Municipality as part of a nationwide municipal reform.
  47. Complete the sentence about Halden with the correct year: In ______, the Great Northern War ended when Charles XII was shot and killed at the Fredriksten fortress.
  48. Complete the sentence about Halden with the correct year: The fortress had been erected in the 17th century as a replacement for the Bohus Fortress lost at the Treaty of Roskilde in ______ when Bohusl…
  49. Complete the sentence about Halden with the correct year: At the same time, the area of Halden, Tistedalen, and the rural municipalities of Berg and Idd, became the Halden municipality on 1 January __…
  50. Complete the sentence about Molde with the correct year: The town gained formal trading rights before ______ under the supervision of Trondheim.
  51. Complete the sentence about Kongsberg with the correct year: On 1 January ______, the new national law, creating local governments, made Kongsberg a municipality.
  52. Complete the sentence about Kongsberg with the correct year: The rural municipalities of Ytre Sandsvær and Øvre Sandsvær were merged into the municipality of Kongsberg in ______.
  53. Complete the sentence about Kongsberg with the correct year: The Kongsberg Silver Mines closed in ______ after operating for 334 years and is today a museum and the city's main tourist attraction.
  54. Complete the sentence about Kongsberg with the correct year: Kongsberg was founded by Danish-Norwegian King Christian IV as a mining community in ______ after the discovery of silver.
  55. Complete the sentence about Narvik with the correct year: On 1 January ______, Ankenes Municipality was merged with the town-municipality of Narvik, forming a new, larger Narvik Municipality.
  56. Complete the sentence about Kristiansund with the correct year: The first element of the name comes from the Danish-Norwegian King Christian VI who founded the town in ______.
  57. Complete the sentence about Kristiansund with the correct year: Before the introduction of postal codes in Norway in ______, it was easy to confuse the name Kristiansund with Kristiansand in the south…
  58. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The municipality's coat of arms were granted on 27 June ______ by King Christian VI.
  59. Complete the sentence about Kristiansund with the correct year: A replica of the waterfall shown in the arms was eventually constructed in ______ for Kristiansund's 250th anniversary.
  60. Complete the sentence about Hammerfest with the correct year: Honningsvåg was given town status prior to the ______ law, so it is a town under current Norwegian law, making Honningsvåg the northernmos…
  61. Complete the sentence about Kirkenes with the correct year: In the summer of ______, their activities were discovered and many of them were sent to a prisoner-of-war camp near Kirkenes.
  62. Complete the sentence about Longyearbyen with the correct year: As of ______, Longyearbyen Community Council is an official Norwegian municipality.
  63. Complete the sentence about Longyearbyen with the correct year: The German Kriegsmarine almost completely destroyed the town on 8 September ______, but rebuilding took place after the Second World War…
  64. Complete the sentence about Longyearbyen with the correct year: In ______, Vesteraalens Dampskibsselskab started tours to Hotellneset.
  65. Complete the sentence about Longyearbyen with the correct year: The first commercially viable coal on Svalbard was harvested by Søren Zakariassen in ______.
  66. Complete the sentence about Longyearbyen with the correct year: In ______, Bergen-Spitsbergen Kullgrube-kompani started mining coal in Adventtoppen.
  67. Complete the sentence about Svalbard with the correct year: The Swedish-Norwegian mining outpost of Sveagruva closed in ______.
  68. Complete the sentence about Bouvet Island with the correct year: In ______, the island was claimed for the British Crown by George Norris, who named it Liverpool Island.
  69. Complete the sentence about Bouvet Island with the correct year: In ______, the first Norvegia expedition landed on the island, and claimed it for Norway.
  70. Complete the sentence about Lofoten with the correct year: In March ______, the islands were raided by British Commandos during Operation Claymore, and in a subsequent diversionary attack to support t…
  71. Complete the sentence about North Cape, Norway with the correct year: North Cape Hall, a visitor centre, was built in ______ on the plateau.
  72. Complete the sentence about North Cape, Norway with the correct year: The North Cape was named by the Englishman Steven Borough, captain of the Edward Bonaventure, which sailed past in ______ in searc…
  73. Complete the sentence about North Cape, Norway with the correct year: The North Cape became a popular tourist destination during the last decades of the nineteenth century, especially after King Oscar…
  74. Complete the sentence about Trollstigen with the correct year: Trollstigen was opened on 31 July ______ by King Haakon VII after eight years of construction.
  75. Complete the sentence about Trollstigen with the correct year: In the summer of ______, the road was repaired, and about 16 million Norwegian kroner was spent to protect from rockfalls and make drivin…
  76. Complete the sentence about Geirangerfjord with the correct year: In ______, it was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, jointly with the Nærøyfjorden as the "West Norwegian Fjords" site.
  77. Complete the sentence about Nærøyfjord with the correct year: In ______, it gained wider international attention as one of the inspirations for the fictional town of Arendelle in Disney's Frozen.
  78. Complete the sentence about Galdhøpiggen with the correct year: In ______ the geologist and mountaineer, Baltazar Mathias Keilhau, made two unsuccessful attempts to reach the summit.
  79. Complete the sentence about Galdhøpiggen with the correct year: In ______, three men from Lom reached the summit; the guide Steinar Sulheim, the local teacher Lars Arnesen and the church warden Ingebr…
  80. Complete the sentence about Glittertind with the correct year: But in August ______, the mountain was seen basically without the glacier.
  81. Complete the sentence about Glittertind with the correct year: The summit of Glittertind was reached for the first time in ______ by Harald Nicolai Storm Wergeland and Hans Sletten.
  82. Complete the sentence about Jotunheimen with the correct year: Slingsby's ______ book Norway, the Northern Playground contributed greatly to popularizing mountaineering in Jotunheimen among the intern…
  83. Complete the sentence about Dovrefjell with the correct year: When the railroad was built from Oslo to Trondheim in ______, one of the marshes was preserved.
  84. Complete the sentence about Rondane National Park with the correct year: After nearly a decade of planning, Rondane was established as the first Norwegian National Park on 21 December ______.
  85. Complete the sentence about Rondane National Park with the correct year: Legal efforts to protect nature in Norway date from ______, when the nature protection law was passed.
  86. Complete the sentence about Rondane National Park with the correct year: Soon after, in ______, community meetings were held in the municipalities close to Rondane, and a commission was founded.
  87. Complete the sentence about Femunden with the correct year: After Sweden had conquered the parishes of Idre and Särna in ______, the lake Femunden was considered to be part of the border between Norwa…
  88. Complete the sentence about Mjøsa with the correct year: Thomas Robert Malthus traveled through Norway in ______ and his diaries from the trip includes a description of Mjøsa.
  89. Complete the sentence about Mjøsa with the correct year: Established by King Haakon IV of Norway, it was first mentioned historically in a letter dated ______.
  90. Complete the sentence about Mjøsa with the correct year: Peter Andreas Blix documented the site and made drawings in ______.
  91. Complete the sentence about Alta River with the correct year: The river is considered the place where the assassins sent by Sviatopolk the Accursed killed saints Boris and Gleb in ______.
  92. Complete the sentence about Alta River with the correct year: In ______ it was the site of a battle between Svyatopolk and his brother Yaroslav I the Wise which Yaroslav won.
  93. Complete the sentence about Alta River with the correct year: On 25 May ______ on the river near Pereiaslav was the place where Polish hetman Stanisław Koniecpolski was beaten by the Zaporozhian Cossa…
  94. Complete the sentence about Skagerrak with the correct year: Historically, the Skagerrak was the only access to the Baltic Sea until the construction of the Eider Canal in ______.
  95. Complete the sentence about Barents Sea with the correct year: The Liinakhamari harbour in the Pechengsky District was Finland's only ice-free winter harbour until ______ when it was ceded to the Sovi…
  96. Complete the sentence about Barents Sea with the correct year: Seabed mapping was completed in ______; the first full map was produced by Russian marine geologist Maria Klenova.
  97. Complete the sentence about Oslofjord with the correct year: The fjord was the scene of a key event in the German invasion of Norway in April ______, the Battle of Drøbak Sound.
  98. Complete the sentence about Hallingdal with the correct year: The parents of Norwegian romanticist painter Hans Gude lived in Hallingdal until ______, and Gude painted many of his works there.
  99. Complete the sentence about Hallingdal with the correct year: The music of Hallingdal is traditionally dominated by the hardanger fiddle, which was taken into use from c. ______.
  100. Complete the sentence about Gudbrandsdalen with the correct year: According to the sage Olaf II of Norway met one Dale-Gudbrand, supposedly the last Dale-Gudbrand, in ______.

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