VEST-AGDER

vĕstˈ-ägˌdər, county (1995 pop. 149,563), 2,810 sq mi (7,278 sq km), S Norway, bordering on the Skagerrak in the south. Kristiansand is the capital. Farming, shipping, fishing, and the manufacture of forest products are the chief occupations. Lindesnes, Norway's southernmost point, is in Vest-Agder.

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books on: Vest Agder  - 11 results

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Norwegian Democracy
Book by James A. Storing; Houghton Mifflin, 1963
Subjects: Norway--Constitutional History, Norway--Politics And Government
...Buskerud seven, the province of Vestfold seven; the province of Telemark six; the province of Aust-Agder four; the province of Vest-Agder five; the province of Rogaland ten; the province of Hordaland ten; the city of Bergen five; the province...
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Economic Demography of Eastern and Southern Europe
Book by Wilbert E. Moore; League of Nations, 1945
Subjects: Europe--Economic Conditions, Europe--Population
...110 111 Buskerud 39 14 1,902 114 107 Vestfold 25 10 1,701 158 133 Telemark 30 11 1,429 111 102 Aust-Agder 19 7 793 97 89 Vest-Agder 27 9 1,111 96 97 Rogaland 50 17 3,412 159 158 Hordaland 61 20 2,570 98 101 Sogn og Fjordane 53 17 2...
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The Rise of the Norwegian Parliament
Book by Hilmar Rommetvedt; F. Cass, 2003
Subjects: Norway--Politics And Government--1945-, Norway--Stortinget--History
...Oslo 18,769 20,020 0.85 Vestfold 18,061 - 0.89 Vest-Agder 17,668 - 0.91 Akershus 17,569 21,961 0.91 Telemark...Trondelag 15,772 - 1.02 Hedmark 15,192 - 1.06 Aust-Agder 14,813 - 1.08 More og Romsdal 14,641 - 1.10 Troms...
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Constitutions of Europe: Texts Collected by the Council of Europe Venice Commission - Vol. 2
Book by Council of Europe Venice Commission; Brill, 2004
Subjects: Constitutions--Europe
...Buskerud, 7 from the county of Vestfold, 6 from the county of Telemark, 4 from the county of Aust-Agder, 5 from the county of Vest-Agder, 10 from the county of Rogaland, 15 from the county of Hordaland, 5 from the county of Sogn og Fjordane...
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How Europe's Economies Learn: Coordinating Competing Models
Book by Edward Lorenz, Bengt-Åke Lundvall; Oxford University Press, 2006
Subjects: European Union Countries--Economic Conditions
...based on Fylken NO1 I Akershus, Oslo N02 Hedmark, Oppland N03 QJstfold, Busekrud, Vestfold, Telemark N04 Aust-Agder, Vest-Agder, Rogaland NOS Hordaland, Sogn og Fjordane, More of Romsdal N06 Sor-Trondelag, Nord-Trondelag N07 Nordland...
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journal articles on: Vest Agder  - 4 results

 
 
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Tectonic Regimes and Terrane Boundaries in the High-grade Sveconorwegian Belt of SW Norway, Inferred from U-pb Zircon Geochronology and Geochemical Signature of Augen Gneiss Suites
Journal article by Bernard Bingen, Otto Van Breemen; Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. 155, 1998
Subjects: Geology, Norway, Plate tectonics
...the Bamble, Telemark and Rogaland Vest Agder terranes of SW Norway (Fig. 1...the low pressure domain of Rogaland Vest Agder (average pressure of 5.5 kbar...Schnell, unpubl. data). In Rogaland Vest Agder, the Hidderskog meta-charnockite...
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Emotion, Rationality, and the European Union: A Case Study of the Discursive Framework of the 1994 Norwegian Referendum on EU Membership
Journal article by Martha Easton; International Social Science Review, Vol. 84, 2009
Subjects: European Union--Membership, International agencies--Membership, International organizations--Membership, Norwegian foreign relations--Political aspects, Referendum--Case studies, Referendums--Case studies
...took place in five of Norways nineteen counties: Oslo, Vest Agder (the most southerly county in Norway), Nordland...There were eight respondents from Oslo, nine from Vest-Agder, seven from Nordland, eight from Sor-Trondelag...
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Nature and Distribution of Deep Crustal Reservoirs in the Southwestern Part of the Baltic Shield: Evidence from Nd, Sr and Pb Isotope Data on Late Sveconorwegian Granites
Journal article by Tom Andersen, Arild Andresen, Arthur G. Sylvester; Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. 158, 2001
Subjects: Geology, Isotopes, Lava, Nature, Plate tectonics, Stone
...It separates the Telemark Sector from the Rogaland- Vest Agder Sector (Fig. 1), which is made up mainly by tonalitic...samples from 32 intrusions in the Telemark and Rogaland-Vest Agder Sectors for analysis. We also collected two samples...
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National Value Differences: Modernization or Institutionalization?
Journal article by Peter Gundelach; International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Vol. 35, 1994
Subjects: National characteristics--Research, Values--Research
...on Todd (1992, Chapter 1): Norway: authoritarian except for Ostfold, Akershus, Oslo. Telemark, Aust-agder, and Vest-agder which are absolute nuclear Sweden: authoritarian south of Stockholm and Kopparberg. No information is available...


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magazine articles on: Vest Agder  - 1 result

 
 
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Has the Rain Become a Drizzle?
Magazine article by Don Hinrichsen; Scandinavian Review, Vol. 97, Spring 2010
Subjects: Acid rain, Aquatic ecosystems, Emissions, Forest soils, Fossil fuels, Groundwater, Heavy metals, Industrial plant emissions, Lakes, Power plants, Precipitation
...Control Authority was liming 3,000 lakes in the southern part of the country, principally in the Telemark, Aust-Agder, Vest-Agder and Rogaland regions, at a cost of 1 00 million kroner (about $18 million). Studies carried out detailing the...


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encyclopedia articles on: Vest Agder  - 4 results

 
 
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Vest-Agder
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
VEST-AGDER vest -ag d r, county (1995 pop. 149,563), 2,810 sq mi (7,278 sq...chief occupations. Lindesnes , Norways southernmost point, is in Vest-Agder. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University...
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Lindesnes
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LINDESNES lin d snes or the Naze naz, cape, in Vest-Agder co., southernmost point of the Norwegian mainland, projecting into the North Sea at the entrance to the Skagerrak . Norways...
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Mandal
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MANDAL man dal, town (1995 pop. 12,921), Vest-Agder co., extreme S Norway, on the Skagerrak. A renowned seaport in the 17th cent., it is now a small trading and shipping center...
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Kristiansand
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
KRISTIANSAND kristyansan , city (1995 pop. 68,618), capital of Vest-Agder co., S Norway, a commercial and passenger port on the Skagerrak. Manufactures include ships, textiles, metal and wood products...


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