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50: Norway, Part I

Second Decade by Kerkoporta LLC

Dec 19, 202053:02Society & Culture

At the beginning of the Napoleonic era, Norway was not its own country, but rather the junior partner in the unequal combination of Denmark-Norway. Just before Bonaparte was defeated and exiled (for the first time), some...

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50: Norway, Part I is an episode from Second Decade by Kerkoporta LLC. At the beginning of the Napoleonic era, Norway was not its own country, but rather the junior partner in the unequal combination of Denmark-Norway. Just before Bonaparte...

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