Oslo

Oslo (dt. /ˈɔslo/, norw. /ˈuslu/, also/ˈuschlu/ , before times Christiania and Kristiania ) the capital of Norway is local and has by numerous incorporations and constant population growth of meanwhile approximately 540,000 inhabitants, whereby the portion of the foreignersbecause of the total population with 22,3% is (conditions July 2005). 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) Norway and is at the same timeAdministrative seat of the neighbouring Fylke Akershus. In January 2006 Oslo replaced according to a study of the Economist Tokyo (which 14 years long this title led) as the most expensive city of the world.

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base data
governmental district:	Oslo
surface:	453 km ²
Inhabitant:	538.411 (1. January 2006)
Population density:	1,189 inhabitants for each km ²
height:	1 m and. NN
geographical location:	Coordinates: 59° 54 ' 36 " N, 10° 45 ' 00 " O 59° 54 ' 36 " N, 10° 45 ' 00 " O
arrangement of theCity:	16 quarters
official Website:	oslo.kommune.no
politics
mayor:	By Ditlev Simonsen (conservative)

1 name and history
of 2 quarters
3 number of inhabitants for each quarter
4 objects of interest
5 economics and infrastructure
- 5,1 traffic
6 personalities
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7 See
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name and history

in the Heimskringla, to a history of the Norwegian kings, the Icelandic scholar maintains Snorri Sturluson that Oslo in the year 1048 of king Harald III.one based. Excavations thatmeanwhile Christian graves brought recent time from the time around 1000 to the appearance. For this reason the city committed its thousand-year old anniversary in the year 2000. King Håkon V. the fortress made around 1300 Oslo the capital of Norway and leftAkershus establish.

1624 were strongly devastated the city by a fire and by that Danish - Norwegian king Christian IV. under the name Christiania again developed. 1877 changed the official way of writing in Kristiania and only 1925 became for the city thatoriginal name Oslo shown. Oslo meant translates either „level of the Gods “or „level underneath the hill “- last clarity over it is not to be attained no more.

A Kosename of the city is Tigerstaden (tiger city), after a poem of Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (“Sidste sang”, 1870). 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 showsthe holy Halvard, which had tried to save a woman from force authors then however perforated by these with arrows and with millstone drowned is weighted.

The University of Oslo is the largest of the kingdom with approximately 32,000 students and1811 were created after model of the Humboldt university in Berlin. 1952 found the olympic winter plays in Oslo - among other things at the famous Holmenkollen - instead of.

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quarters

after the quarter reform starting from 1. January 2004 are the quarters Oslos:

Gamle Oslo,Grünerløkka, Sagene, pc. Hans striking gene, Frogner, Ullern, Vestre Aker, Nordre Aker, Bjerke, Grorud, Stovner, Alna, Østensjø, north beach, Søndre north beach and the north Mark (marks or Marka)

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number of inhabitants for each quarter

inhabitant for each quarter:

Gamle Oslo	35,431
Grünerløkka	37,774
Sagene	29,654
pc. Hans striking gene	27,619
Frogner	45,690
Ullern	27,179
Vestre Aker	40,487
Nordre Aker	41,060
Bjerke	24,748
Grorud	24,729
Stovner	28,445
Alna	44,151
Østensjø	42,681
north beach	45,897
Søndre north beach	33,556
Sentrum	438
Marka	1,614
no specification	1,498
total	536,209

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objects of interest

Akershus lock and castle	the famous city hall Oslos	of the Oslo port 1975	Oslo city hall
the royal lock	thatRoyal lock	king Karl Johann to horses	Holmenkollen digging
Vigelandpark	the zornige boy in the Vigeland park	Selbstbildnis Vigelands	Leuchttuminsel in the port

the famous city hall Oslos

Oslo has many objects of interest and the special flair of the internal fjord situation.

Among the most important objects of interest rank:

severalShip museums (Wikingerschiffe, Fram - museum, Kon Tiki) on Bygdøy
the Vigeland - plant in the Frognerpark with sculptures Gustav Vigelands
the city hall, as the annual award of the Nobel peace prize takes place
the Munch museum with the deduction of the painter EDP pool of broadcasting corporations Munch
the ski jump plant Holmenkollen
that Akershus lock and the castle (Akershus slott og festning)
the royal lock (Slottet)
the Karl Johans gate, the central purchase mile in Oslo
the national gallery
the Norsk Folkemuseum (with open air museum)
the Oslo Bymuseum (city museum) (property Frogner)
the TV tower Tryvannstårnet

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economics and infrastructure

panorama around 1895

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traffic

Oslo has two international airports, Oslo Gardermoen and Oslo Torp.

The Oslo Gardermoen is from Oslo over a course distance or over two Buslinien (SAS Flybussen andFlybussekspressen) tied up. Oslo possesses a very well removed network of streetcars (T-Bane), which drive in the center underground, in peripheral areas celestially. The most important stops are major doing and Nationaltheatret. In January 2006 a new ticket system is to be introduced, withEntering and leaving the railway stations the maps control.

There are driving connections after Kiel (Color LINE), Hirtshals (Color LINE), Frederikshavn (Stena LINE), Copenhagen (DFDS Seaways) and Helsingborg (DFDS Seaways).

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Personalities

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Kjetil André Aamodt, alpine ski running runner from Norway
Alfred, Norwegian composer
Rebekka cheeks, singer
Hjalmar Borgstrøm, Norwegian music journalist and composer
Finn Carling, Norwegian writer
Lars Saabye Christensen, Norwegian writer
Charlotte Engelhardt, German host and actress
Kaci Kullmann Five, Norwegian conservative politician
Merete Fjeldavlie, former Norwegian Skirennläuferin
Torill Fjeldstad, Norwegian Skirennläuferin
Ragnar Anton Kittil freshness, Norwegian economist
Morten rake, musician thatNorwegian Popband A-hectar
of Magne Furuholmen, musician of the Popband A-hectar and educating artist
Pål Waaktaar Savoy, musician of the Popband A-hectar and the Norwegian-American volume Savoy
Jostein Gaarder, Norwegian writer
Johan Galtung, Norwegian Politologe
Trygve Gulbranssen, Norwegian writer
Olaf Gulbransson, Norwegian painter, draughtsman and caricaturist
Haakon of Norway, Crown Prince of Norway
EDP pool of broadcasting corporations Hambro, Norwegian politician
Julie Lunde Hansen, Norwegian Skirennläuferin
Sonja Haraldsen, woman of the Norwegian king Harald V.
Sonja Henie, Norwegian Eiskunstläuferin
Bente Kahan, Norwegian Jewish actress and musician.
Truls Ove Karlsen, Norwegian ski running runner
Karin Krog, jazz singer
Astrid Loedemel, former Norwegian Skirennläuferin
Molla Mallory, Norwegian Tennisspielerin
of oils Danbolt Mjøs, the medical profession and professor at the university ofTromsø, politician
EDP pool of broadcasting corporations Munch, Norwegian painter and commercial artist
Rudolf Nilsen, Norwegian poet of the workers' movement
Rikard Nordraak, Norwegian composer
Thorbjørn Egner, Norwegian writer
Ingrid Alexandra of Norway, successor to the throne of Norway
Lars Onsager, chemist and physicist
January Petersen (politician), Norwegian conservative politician, lawyer and diplomat
Bjørn Einar Romøren, Norwegian ski Springer
Bente Skari, Norwegian ski Langläuferin
Jens proud mountain, Norwegian social-democratic politician and Minister of State of Norway (2000-2001)
Johan Svendsen, Norwegian composer
Petter Tande,Norwegian Nordi Kombinierer
Grete Waitz, Norwegian light athlete and sport legend
Radka clay/tone EFF, Norwegian musician
Mats Trygg, Norwegian ice hockey player
Thor Hushovd, Norwegian cyclist