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  2. Erik the Red's Land - Wikipedia

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    Erik the Red's Land (Norwegian: Eirik Raudes Land) was the name given by Norwegians to an area on the coast of eastern Greenland occupied by Norway in the early 1930s. It was named after Erik the Red, the founder of the first Norse or Viking settlements in Greenland in the 10th century.

  3. List of military operations in the Nordic countries during ...

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    The Bitter Years; The Invasion and Occupation of Denmark and Norway, April 1940-May 1945 (1974) Riste, Olav et al. Norway and the Second World War (1996) Stenius, H., Österberg, M. and Östling, J., eds. Nordic Narratives of the Second World War: National Historiographies Revisited (Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2011).

  4. Timeline of Greenland - Wikipedia

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    1263: Greenland then becomes crown dependency of Norway. 1355: In 1355 union king Magnus IV of Sweden and Norway (Magnus VII of Norway; The Swedish king had been crowned king of Norway through birthright) sent a ship (or ships) to Greenland to inspect its Western and Eastern Settlements. Sailors found settlements entirely Norse and Christian.

  5. History of Greenland - Wikipedia

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    Greenland was also assigned its own Danish county. Despite its small population, it was provided nominal representation in the Danish Folketing. A plantation of exotic arctic trees was created in 1954 near Narsarsuaq. [79] Blok P, the largest building in Greenland and formerly home to about 1% of its population, was demolished on October 19, 2012.

  6. List of wars involving Norway - Wikipedia

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    Cnut's invasion of Norway (1028-1029) Kingdom of Norway: North Sea Empire Norwegian chieftains Danish and Norwegian chieftain victory. Norway conquered by King Cnut; King Olaf II was driven into exile to Kievan Rus; Battle of Stiklestad (1030) Olaf II: Peasant Army Peasant victory. Death of Olaf II; Tryggvi the Pretender's invasion of Norway ...

  7. Erik the Red - Wikipedia

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    Erik Thorvaldsson was born in Rogaland, Norway in 950 CE, and was the son of Thorvald Asvaldsson (also spelled Osvaldsson). [3] Thorvald would later be banished from Norway for committing acts of manslaughter. [7] Thorvald would then proceed to sail west from Norway with his family, including a 10-year-old Erik.

  8. Nordic colonialism - Wikipedia

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    As an independent state in modern days, Norway occupied Erik the Red's Land on Greenland from 1931 to 1933. Nils Larsen of Sandefjord's expeditions of Antarctica led to Norway's annexation of Bouvet Island in 1927 and Peter I Island in 1929. [15] Norway also maintains sovereignty of Queen Maud Land on Antarctica.

  9. Military history of Norway - Wikipedia

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    The military history of Norway commences before the Viking Age with the internal wars fought between regional kings to obtain the supreme kingship of the whole of Norway. . The most famous period of Norwegian history and thus military history is the Viking Age, but the early Middle Ages was the era when Norwegian military power in Europe reached its pe