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Kongeriket Norge

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HISTORY. By the Treaty of 14 Jan. 1814 Norway was ceded to the King of Sweden by the King of Denmark, but the Norwegian people declared themselves independent and elected Prince Christian Frederik of Denmark as their king. The foreign Powers refused to recognize this election, and on 14 Aug. a convention proclaimed the independence of Norway in a personal union with Sweden. This was followed on 4 Nov. by the election of Karl XIII (II) as King of Norway. Norway declared this union dissolved, 7 June 1905, and Sweden agreed to the repeal of the union on 26 Oct. 1905. The throne was offered to a prince of the reigning house of Sweden, who declined. After a plebiscite, Prince Carl of Denmark was formally elected King on 18 Nov. 1905, and took the name of Haakon VII.

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  • Statistisk Årbok for Norge (annual, from 1880; from 1952 with English explanations)

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  • Økonomisk Utsyn (annual, from 1935; with English summary from 1952)

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  • Statistiske Oversikter, 1948 and 1958 (historical statistical survey; bilingual Norwegian-English)

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  • Statistisk Manedshefte (monthly, from 1880; with English index)

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  • Norges Statskalender. From 1816; annual from 1877

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© 1967 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited

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Steinberg, S.H. (1967). Norway. In: Steinberg, S.H. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270961_94

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