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The first settlers arrived at the end of the Ice Age. Archaeological remains of hunting-fishing communities in Finnmark and Rogaland date from 9500–8000 BC. By 2500 BC a new influx of settlers brought cattle and crop farming. Links with Roman-occupied Gaul in the first four centuries AD were strong. By 800 AD tribal groups had established their own legislative assemblies, the things.
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Petersson, O., The Government and Politics of the Nordic Countries. Stockholm, 1994
Turner, Barry, (ed.) Scandinavia Profiled. Macmillan, London, 2000
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Turner, B. (2005). Norway. In: Turner, B. (eds) The Statesman’s Yearbook. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230271340_238
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