norway oslo Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/norway-oslo Thu, 19 Jan 2017 20:00:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 NORWAY http://toursmaps.com/norway-3.html http://toursmaps.com/norway-3.html#respond Tue, 07 Feb 2017 09:07:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=229075 In NORWAY neither geology nor climate are favourable to agriculture, and onlyjust over 3% of the country’s area is suitable for cultivation. In southern Norway corn and potatoes are grown, often unprofitably; farther north cattle-raising predominates, and in the extreme north there is reindeer herding. Goats, formerly reared in large numbers, are now giving way to cattle and pigs, and the traditional method of cattle farming, in which the cattle grazed in summer on the mountain pastures, is being replaced by cooperative dairy farming. A developing branch of agriculture is fur-farming (fox, mink). Arable farming is of relatively little significance

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]]> http://toursmaps.com/norway-3.html/feed 0 NORWAY http://toursmaps.com/norway-2.html http://toursmaps.com/norway-2.html#respond Sat, 21 Jan 2017 02:36:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=228905 Norway remains neutral. Half its merchant fleet, which carries cargo for the Allies, is sunk by German submarines. Popular feeling is hostile to Germany. 1920 Norway joins the League of Nations. It is granted sovereignty over SPITZBERGEN (Svalbard), which is finally incorporated in Norway in 1925. 1920-7 Prohibition (ban on alcohol). 1929 Occupation of the island of JAN M EYEN. 1939-45 Second World War. In 1940 German troops invade and occupy Norway, anticipating an imminent British landing. There is fierce fighting for the possession of Narvik. The king and government flee to London. Norway is ruled by a German commissioner,

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