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Hamar
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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Or Storehammer (Great Hamar), a town of Norway in Hedemarken amt (county), 78 m. by rail N. of Christiania. Pop. (1900), 6003. It is pleasantly situated between two bays of the great Lake Mjosen, and is the junction of the railways to Trondhjem (N.) and to Otta in Gudbrandsdal (N.W.). The existing town was laid out in 1849, and made a bishop's see in 1864. Near the same site there stood an older town, which, together with a bishop's see, was founded in 1152 by the Englishman Nicholas Breakspeare (afterwards Pope Adrian IV.); but both town and cathedral were destroyed by the Swedes in 1567. Remains of the latter include a nave-arcade with rounded arches. The town is a centre for the local agricultural and timber trade.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Hamar'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/h/hamar.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Hamar'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/h/hamar.html. 1910.
