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Arendal (town)

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Arendal is a city in Aust-Agder county, Norway. [1]

69 relations: Administrative centre, Arendal, Arendal crash, Aust-Agder, Austre Moland, Axel Nicolai Herlofson, Øyestad, Baltic region, Barbu Church, Barbu, Norway, Bayonne, Bergen, Bjorbekk Church, Brooklyn, Capture of Arendal, Central European Summer Time, Central European Time, Christian IV of Denmark, Christian Jensen Lofthuus, Counties of Norway, County governor (Norway), Denmark, Districts of Norway, Eagle, Elizabeth, New Jersey, Fevik, Formannskapsdistrikt, Freight transport, Genitive case, GRID-Arendal, Grimstad, Hisøy, Ironworks, Jersey City, New Jersey, Kingdom of Great Britain, Kristiansand, Kunnskapsforlaget, List of municipalities of Norway, List of towns and cities in Norway, Lumber, Market town, Mining, Moland, New Jersey, Norway, Old Norse, Oslo, Perth Amboy, New Jersey, Population density, Port Richmond, Staten Island, ..., Poverty, Proclamation, Regions of Norway, Shipbuilding, Silicon carbide, Southern Norway, Staten Island, Statistics Norway, Stavanger, Stokken Church, Store norske leksikon, Tanker (ship), Trinity Church (Arendal), Tromøy, United States, Valley, Vest-Agder, Vestre Moland, Yr.no. Expand index (19 more) »

Administrative centre

An administrative centre is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located.

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Arendal

Arendal is a municipality in the county of Aust-Agder in southeastern Norway.

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Arendal crash

The Arendal crash (Arendalskrakket) was an economic crisis in Arendal, Norway, that occurred when the bank Arendals Privatbank went bankrupt in 1886 and the bank's co-owner Axel Nicolai Herlofson was revealed to have defrauded customers and co-owners systemically.

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Aust-Agder

Aust-Agder (East Agder) is one of 18 counties (fylker) in Norway, bordering Telemark, Rogaland, and Vest-Agder counties.

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Austre Moland

Austre Moland (historic: Østre Moland) is a former municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway.

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Axel Nicolai Herlofson

Axel Nicolai Herlofson (29 August 1845 in Østre Moland – 1910 in Christiania) was a Norwegian fraudster who is known for causing the Arendal crash, after defrauding customers and co-owners of Arendals Privatbank which he had co-founded in 1874.

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Øyestad

Øyestad is a former municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway.

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Baltic region

The terms Baltic region, Baltic Rim countries (or simply Baltic Rim), and the Baltic Sea countries refer to slightly different combinations of countries in the general area surrounding the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe.

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Barbu Church

Barbu Church (Barbu kirke) is a parish church in Arendal municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway.

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Barbu, Norway

Barbu is part of the town of Arendal in Aust-Agder county, Norway.

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Bayonne

Bayonne (Gascon: Baiona; Baiona; Bayona) is a city and commune and one of the two sub-prefectures of the department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of south-western France.

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Bergen

Bergen, historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Hordaland on the west coast of Norway.

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Bjorbekk Church

Bjorbekk Church (Bjorbekk kirke) is a parish church in Arendal municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway.

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with a census-estimated 2,648,771 residents in 2017.

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Capture of Arendal

The Capture of Arendal occurred on 9 April 1940 and saw the German torpedo boat ''Greif'' land a force of bicycle troops and seize an invasion beachhead at the Norwegian port town of Arendal.

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Central European Summer Time

Central European Summer Time (CEST), sometime referred also as Central European Daylight Time (CEDT), is the standard clock time observed during the period of summer daylight-saving in those European countries which observe Central European Time (UTC+1) during the other part of the year.

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Central European Time

Central European Time (CET), used in most parts of Europe and a few North African countries, is a standard time which is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

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Christian IV of Denmark

Christian IV (Christian den Fjerde; 12 April 1577 – 28 February 1648), sometimes colloquially referred to as Christian Firtal in Denmark and Christian Kvart or Quart in Norway, was king of Denmark-Norway and Duke of Holstein and Schleswig from 1588 to 1648.

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Christian Jensen Lofthuus

Christian Jensen Lofthuus (Kristian Jenssøn Lofthus) (15 May 1750 - 13 June 1797) was a prominent farmer from Risør, Norway.

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Counties of Norway

Norway is divided into 18 administrative regions, called counties (singular fylke, plural fylker (Bokmål) / fylke (Nynorsk) from Old Norse: fylki from the word "folk"); until 1918, they were known as amter.

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County governor (Norway)

The County Governor (Fylkesmannen) is a Norwegian government agency that represents 17 of the Norwegian counties.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark), officially the Kingdom of Denmark,Kongeriget Danmark,.

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Districts of Norway

The country Norway is historically divided into a number of districts.

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Eagle

Eagle is the common name for many large birds of prey of the family Accipitridae.

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Elizabeth, New Jersey

Elizabeth is both the largest city and the county seat of Union County, in New Jersey, United States.

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Fevik

Fevik is a village in Grimstad municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway.

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Formannskapsdistrikt

Formannskapsdistrikt is the name for Norwegian local self-government districts that were legally enacted on 1 January 1838.

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Freight transport

Freight transport is the physical process of transporting commodities and merchandise goods and cargo.

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Genitive case

In grammar, the genitive (abbreviated); also called the second case, is the grammatical case that marks a word, usually a noun, as modifying another word, also usually a noun.

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GRID-Arendal

GRID-Arendal is a centre collaborating with the United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment), located in Arendal, Norway.

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Grimstad

Grimstad is a municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway.

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Hisøy

Hisøy (historically: Hisø) is a former municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway.

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Ironworks

An ironworks or iron works is a building or site where iron is smelted and where heavy iron and steel products are made.

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Jersey City, New Jersey

Jersey City is the second-most-populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey, after Newark.

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Kingdom of Great Britain

The Kingdom of Great Britain, officially called simply Great Britain,Parliament of the Kingdom of England.

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Kristiansand

Kristiansand, historically Christianssand and Christiansand, is a city and municipality in Norway.

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Kunnskapsforlaget

Kunnskapsforlaget is a Norwegian publishing company based in Oslo that concentrates on encyclopedias, encyclopedic books, textbooks, and dictionaries.

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List of municipalities of Norway

Norway is divided into 18 administrative regions, called counties (fylker in Norwegian, singular: fylke), and 422 municipalities (kommuner/-ar, singular: kommune – cf. communes).

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List of towns and cities in Norway

Below is a list of towns and cities in Norway.

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Lumber

Lumber (American English; used only in North America) or timber (used in the rest of the English speaking world) is a type of wood that has been processed into beams and planks, a stage in the process of wood production.

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Market town

Market town or market right is a legal term, originating in the Middle Ages, for a European settlement that has the right to host markets, distinguishing it from a village and city.

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Mining

Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually from an orebody, lode, vein, seam, reef or placer deposit.

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Moland

Moland is a former municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States.

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Norway

Norway (Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk); Norga), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a unitary sovereign state whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard.

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Old Norse

Old Norse was a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements from about the 9th to the 13th century.

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Oslo

Oslo (rarely) is the capital and most populous city of Norway.

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Perth Amboy, New Jersey

Perth Amboy is a city in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.

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Population density

Population density (in agriculture: standing stock and standing crop) is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume; it is a quantity of type number density.

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Port Richmond, Staten Island

Port Richmond is a neighborhood situated on the North Shore of Staten Island, a borough of New York City.

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Poverty

Poverty is the scarcity or the lack of a certain (variant) amount of material possessions or money.

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Proclamation

A proclamation (Lat. proclamare, to make public by announcement) is an official declaration issued by a person of authority to make certain announcements known.

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Regions of Norway

Norway is commonly divided into five major geographical regions (landsdeler).

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Shipbuilding

Shipbuilding is the construction of ships and other floating vessels.

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Silicon carbide

Silicon carbide (SiC), also known as carborundum, is a semiconductor containing silicon and carbon.

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Southern Norway

Southern Norway (Sørlandet; lit. "The Southland") is the geographical region (landsdel) along the Skagerrak coast of southern Norway.

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Staten Island

Staten Island is the southernmost and westernmost of the five boroughs of New York City in the U.S. state of New York.

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Statistics Norway

Statistics Norway (Statistisk sentralbyrå, abbreviated to SSB) is the Norwegian statistics bureau.

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Stavanger

Stavanger is a city and municipality in Norway.

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Stokken Church

Stokken Church (Stokken kirke) is a parish church in Arendal municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway.

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Store norske leksikon

Store norske leksikon, abbreviated SNL, is a Norwegian language (bokmål) encyclopedia.

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Tanker (ship)

A tanker (or tank ship or tankship) is a ship designed to transport or store liquids or gases in bulk.

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Trinity Church (Arendal)

Trinity Church (Trefoldighetskirken, full English name: Church of Holy Trinity) is a parish church in Arendal municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway.

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Tromøy

Tromøy (historic: Tromø) is a former municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Valley

A valley is a low area between hills or mountains often with a river running through it.

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Vest-Agder

Vest-Agder (West Agder) is a county in Norway, bordering Rogaland to the West and Aust-Agder to the East.

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Vestre Moland

Vestre Moland is a former municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway.

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Yr.no

yr.no is a Norwegian website for weather forecasting and other meteorological information (which is also in English).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arendal_(town)

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