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Tønsberg Municipality
Norway, Norway
Tønsberg Municipality in Vestfold county, Norway, is home to the nation's oldest city, founded around 871 by Harald Fairhair before the Battle of Hafrsfjord, serving as a key Viking trading hub and medieval royal capital.
It features Slottsfjellet with ruins of Tønsberg Fortress—Norway's largest 13th-century castle built by King Haakon Haakonsson—and the Oseberg Mound where the famous 9th-century Oseberg Ship was unearthed in 1904.
Established as a municipality in 1838 under the formannskapsdistrikt law, it expanded by merging with Sem in 1988 and Re in 2020, blending historic sites like churches and wharves with modern life around Brunlanes and Færder areas.
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