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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Updated style. Feb 14, 2025
Article thoroughly revised. Dec 23, 2024
Map added. Jun 09, 2023
Population data updated. Aug 24, 2022
Add new Web site: Organization of World Heritage Cities - Oslo, Norway. Apr 21, 2022
Media added. Jun 09, 2016
Add new Web site: Official Site of the City of Oslo, Norway. Apr 23, 2014
Add new Web site: Lonely Planet - Oslo, Norway. Apr 23, 2014
Add new Web site: Maps of World - Oslo, Norway. Mar 12, 2013
Deleted mention of the Norwegian Trade Fair exhibition hall. Jan 07, 2013
Updated death toll for the July 22, 2011, bombing. Jul 29, 2011
Media added. Jul 29, 2011
Updated for the July 22, 2011, bomb attack on downtown Oslo. Jul 22, 2011
Added new Web site: Official Site of The Embassy of the Republic of South Africa in Oslo, Norway. Dec 18, 2008
Added new Web site: History, Art, and Archives - United States House of Representatives - Biography of Bennett McVey Stewart. Jul 11, 2008
Article revised and updated. Apr 10, 2008
Added new Web site: Pennsylvania Center for the Book - Biography of Carolyn Haywood. Feb 25, 2008
Article revised and updated and media added. Jul 17, 2007
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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