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Kristiania

British  
/ ˌkrɪstɪˈɑːnɪə /

noun

  1. a former name (1877–1924) of Oslo

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Smart international yachting folk who have sailed up the pine-fringed Kristiania Fjord to the capital of Norway, Oslo, will remember Castle Oskarshal.

From Time Magazine Archive

The man is a young Norwegian writer of the last century who lives alone in Kristiania and suffers the fearful anguish of alienation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fruen would have had plenty of time to get to Kristiania herself by the day the Captain had written his card; she had not, it seemed—she had gone somewhere else.

From Wanderers by Worster, W. J. Alexander (William John Alexander)

Kristiania, the capital of Norway, is the export market of the fish and lumber products.

From Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges by Redway, Jacques W. (Jacques Wardlaw)

At the beginning of the next season, October 29, 1854, Much Ado About Nothing was introduced to Kristiania theater-goers under the title Blind Alarm.

From An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway by Ruud, Martin Brown

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