Tønsberg,historically Tunsberg,is a city and municipality in Vestfold og Telemark county,eastern Norway,located around 102 kilometres south-southwest of Oslo on the western coast of the Oslofjord near its mouth onto the Skagerrak. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Tønsberg. The city is the most populous metropolis in the district of Vestfold with a population of 52,419 in 2019. The municipality has a population of 56,293 and covers an area of 329 square kilometres in 2020. Tønsberg also serves as the seat for the County Governor of Vestfold og Telemark.
Norway is divided into 11 administrative regions,called counties which until 1918 were known as amter. The counties form the first-level administrative divisions of Norway and are further subdivided into 356 municipalities. The island territories of Svalbard and Jan Mayen are outside the county division and ruled directly at the national level. The capital Oslo is both a county and a municipality.
Red Electoral Alliance was an alliance of far-left groups formed into a Norwegian political party to promote revolutionary socialism ideals into the Norwegian parliament. The party dissolved itself on 10 March 2007,when it participated in the founding of a new party,Red (Rødt).
Eastern Norway is the geographical region of the south-eastern part of Norway. It consists of the counties Vestfold og Telemark,Viken,Oslo and Innlandet.
Tunsberg is a diocese of the Church of Norway. It includes parishes located within the counties of Vestfold and Buskerud,with the cathedral located in Tønsberg. The Diocese of Tunsberg consists of the cathedral deanery and 9 rural deaneries.
Mona Scobie Røkke was a Norwegian and politician for the Conservative Party. She was the Minister of Justice from 1981 to 1985.
Lesbian,gay,bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in Lithuania face legal and social challenges not experienced by non-LGBT citizens. Both male and female same-sex sexual activity is legal in Lithuania,but neither civil same-sex partnership nor same-sex marriage is available,meaning that there is no legal recognition of same sex couples.
Trandumskogen is a forest located in Ullensaker,Akershus county,Norway. It was the site of one of the first discoveries in May 1945 of German mass graves in Norway. The German executioner Oskar Hans was the officer in command of the unit performing the executions.
Hans Johan Røsjorde is a Norwegian politician for the Progress Party. A former member of parliament specializing in defense matters,Røsjorde has resigned from active politics and served as County Governor of Oslo and Akershus from 2001 to 2011.
Gaysir is a Norwegian website,aimed mainly at gay,bisexual and trans people. Gaysir was one of Norway's first web communities,and,in 2007,had approximately 50 000 unique visitors per week.
Events in the year 1947 in Norway.
Per Arne Lodding Olsen was a Norwegian politician who served as a Member of Parliament for the Progress Party,where he held the position as second deputy leader. He served as the Governor of Vestfold from 2016 to 2019,and from 2019 until his death was the Governor of Vestfold og Telemark,elected by the King-in-Council. While Vestfold and Telemark merged on 1 January 2020,the office of the Governor was merged a year before,on 1 January 2019.
Gay Kids –Kule barn som ogsåfinnes (2008) is a non-fiction Norwegian book that attempts to educate children about gay and lesbian identities.
In 1910 Haakon VII serves his sixth year as King of Norway. On 1 February Wollert Konow takes over as Prime Minister after Gunnar Knudsen,who has held this position since 1908.
Ann-Kristin Olsen is a Norwegian jurist and civil servant. Known as the first female chief of police in Norway,and the first female Governor of Svalbard. She served as County Governor of Vest-Agder from 1998 until her retirement in 2015.
The Medal of St. Hallvard is the highest award of the City of Oslo,Norway. It is awarded to people who have made a particularly noteworthy contribution to the City of Oslo. It is named after the city's patron,Saint Hallvard. The medal was designed by goldsmith Jacob Prytz (1886–1962) of the jewelry firm J. Tostrup in Oslo. It has been awarded since 1956.
Stian Berger Røsland is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. He succeeded Erling Lae as Governing Mayor of Oslo in 2009. He served until 2015,when he was replaced by Labour politician Raymond Johansen after the Conservatives and allies narrowly lost the majority in Oslo city council in the 2015 local elections. He also served as commissioner of finance under Erling Lae from 2007 to 2009.
Events in the year 2022 in Norway.
Byavisa Sandefjord,known as Vestfold Blad until 2014,was a local free newspaper in Sandefjord,Norway. Owned by the media conglomerate Content Media,the paper was published weekly and later biweekly,and competed with Sandefjords Blad. Founded in 2010,Byavisa Sandefjord ran on deficits for most of its existence,before 2018,when the paper was shut down.
