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Stavanger

a port in SW Norway: canning and shipbuilding industries. Pop.: 112 405 (2004 est.)
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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Stavanger

 

a city and port in northwestern Norway, on the Jaeren Peninsula, on the south bank of the Boknafjorden. Administrative center of the county of Rogaland. Population, 84,400 (1974). Industries in Stavanger include shipbuilding, fish processing, textile and apparel manufacture, synthetic-rubber production, oil refining, and printing. Stavanger is a major center for fishing. In 1972 goods turnover at the port exceeded 3 million tons.

Stavanger’s most important architectural monument is a Romanesque-Gothic cathedral (1130–1300). There is an archaeolog ical museum in the city.

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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