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Haakon VII, born 3 August. 1872; second son of Frederik VIII, King of Denmark, elected King of Norway by the Storting, 18 November, 1905; accepted the crown, 18 November, 1905; landed in Norway. 25 November, 1905; married, 22 July, 1896, to Princess Maud, born 26 November, 1869 (died 20 November, 1938), the third daughter of the late Edward VII, King of Great Britain and Ireland.
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Books of Reference concerning Norway
Statistical Information.—The central Norwegian bureau of statistics, Statistisk Sentralbyrá (Dronningensgate 16. Oslo) was founded in 1876 as an independent state institution; Director:—Petter Jakob Bjerve. The earliest census of population was taken n 1769. The Sentralbyrá publishes the series ‘Norges Offisielle Statistikk’ from 1828), of which the main publications are the following:—
Statistisk Årbok for Norge (annual, from 1880, with French explanations).
Økonomisk Utsyn (annual; with French index).
Statistiske Oversikter, 1948 (historical statistical survey; bilingual Norwegian–English).
Norges civile, geistlige, rettslige og militaere inndeling. Oslo, 1951.
Statistiske Meldinger (monthly, from 1880; with English–French index).
Norges Statskalender. Annual. Oslo.
Social Insurance in Norway. Oslo. 1949.
Overseas Economic Survey: Norway, July, 1949. H.M.S.O., 1950.
Non-Official Publications
Norway Year Book, The. Oslo, 1950.
Norway. National Travel Association of Norway. 2nd ed. Oslo, 1950.
Facts about Norway. Ed. by Aftenposten. Oslo, 1948.
Norges Eksportråd: Norway, survey of exports and economic development. Oslo, 1948.
The Northern Countries. Uppsala, 1951.
Industry in Norway. Oslo, 1951.
Norwegian Agriculture. Oslo, 1951.
Modern Norway. London, 1950.
Bugge (A.) and Steen (S.), Norsk Kulturhistorie. Oslo, 1947.
Galenson (W.), Labor in Norway. Cambridge, Mass., and London, 1949.
Grimley (O. B.), The New Norway. Oslo, 1939.
Hambro (C. J.), I Saw it Happen In Norway. London, 1940.
Harriman (Mrs.), Mission to the North. New York, 1941.
Harris (G. R.), Progressive Norway. Washington, 1939.
Hangstøl (H.) and Vegel (J.), This is Norway. Oslo, 1949.
Hølaas (O.), The World of the Norseman. London, 1949.
Jensen (W.), Such is Norway. Oslo, 1949.
Larsen (K.), A History of Norway. New York, 1948.
Nordskog (J. E.), Social Reform in Norway. Los Angeles, 1935.
Steen (S.), Norges Krig 1940–45. 3 vols. Oslo, 1947–50.
Sund (T.) and Sömme (A.), Norway in Maps. 2 vols. Bergen, 1947.
Warbey (W. N.), Look to Norway. London, 1946.
Werenskiold (W.) (editor), Norge vårt land. 2nd ed. Oslo, 1950.
Spitsbergen
Norsk Polar-institut, Skrifter. Oslo, from 1929.
Svalbard, a Norwegian outpost. Bergen, 1950.
Holtedahl (Olaf), Notes on the Geology of North-western Spitsbergen. Oslo, 1926.
Nansen (Fridtjof), En ferd til Spitsbergen. Kristiania, 1920.—Spitsbergen. Leipzig, 1921.
Staël von Holstein (L. F. W.), Norway in the Arctic. London, 1932.
Stefansson (V.), Arctic Manual. New York, 1944.
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Steinberg, S.H. (1952). Norway. In: Steinberg, S.H. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270817_56
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