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Kristiansand

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Kristiansand (krĭstyänsän`), 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, canned fish, and beer. The city was founded (1641) by Christian IV and became an episcopal see in 1682. Its Christiansholm Fortress (1662–72) now houses a restaurant. The Varodden Bridge (1956), one of the largest suspension bridges in N Europe, spans the nearby Randesund.
Kristiansand, Christiansand
a port in S Norway, on the Skagerrak: shipbuilding. Pop.: 75 280 (2004 est.)


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Sorlandet Hospital, Kristiansand, Norway; ([dagger]) Swedish Institute for Infectious Diseases, Solna, Sweden; ([double dagger]) National Institute for Health Development, Tallinn, Estonia; ([sub section]) Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway; and ([paragraph]) University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Tim: We played this one festival in Kristiansand, Norway, and were waiting for the lift in the hotel when the doors opened and out walks Snoop Dogg, ten feet tall.
Kristiansand, Norway, Nordic Academic Press, 2001, paperback, 178 pp, illus, $32.
 
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