Country SNAPSHOT NORWAY - The City Bergen - Colorful historical Buildings

Bergen, city and sea port in southwest Norway, seat of the administration field Hordaland on a sea incision of the northern sea. As a second-largest city of Norway, Bergen is a culture, fishing, industry and shipment center. Products set up in the city are steel, ships, fishing outfit, incorporated foods, wood and electro machines.
With theirs numerous ones, partially colourful historical buildings included the "Marien church" from the 12th century, the fortress Bergenhus with the Håkonshalle (1247; Creation after the 2nd world war) as soon as several pitched roof timber buildings from the early 18th century along the quays is the city attractive. To educational facilities, count the university of mountains (set up 1948), an economy and business administration school (1936) as well as a music conservatory (1905). the Edvard Grieg composer and the stage author and dense Ludvig of fetching mountain come from mountains.

The city became as Bjørgvin, as many what 1070 wie mountain willow are, from Olaf III. set up and developed ones are rapid itself to a center of commerce. In the 12th 13th century, she was capital of Norway. Ex middle of the 14th century to 1560, the Hanseatic League occupied a monopoly in the commercial business. The Hanseatic League businessmen remained 19th century influential to the late in the city. It came in 1702, 1855 and 1916 for hard fires in the city and in the 2nd world war, it was damaged by German heavily. The population containing contained round 220000 inhabitants.

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