Oslo

Oslo is the capital and maximum populous metropolis of Norway. It constitutes each a county and a municipality. Founded in the yr 1040 as Anslo, and mounted as a kaupstad or trading region in 1048 by means of Harald Hardrada, the town turned into expanded to a bishopric in 1070 and a capital under Haakon V of Norway around 1300. Personal unions with Denmark from 1397 to 1523 and once more from 1536 to 1814 reduced its impact. After being destroyed by means of a hearth in 1624, at some point of the reign of King Christian IV, a new town turned into constructed in the direction of Akershus Fortress and named Christiania inside the king's honour.

It turned into hooked up as a municipality on 1 January 1838. The town functioned as a co-respectable capital for the duration of the 1814 to 1905 Union between Sweden and Norway. In 1877, the metropolis's call turned into respelled Kristiania according with an respectable spelling reform a trade that was taken over by the municipal government handiest in 1897. In 1925 the city, after incorporating the village keeping its former call, turned into renamed Oslo.