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Stavanger
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Etymology
From Norwegian Stavanger, from Old Norse Stafangr (literally “staff bay”).
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Stavanger
- A city and municipality in Rogaland, Norway. It is the third largest city in Norway after Oslo and Bergen.
- 1956 April, H. A. Vallance, “To Oslo via Stavanger”, in Railway Magazine, page 213:
- For many years, Oslo had no railway communication with Bergen and Stavanger, the principal seaports on the south-west coast.
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Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
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