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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 69 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FREDRIKSTAD (FREDERIKSTAD) , a seaport and manufacturing See also:town of See also:Norway in Smaalenene amt (See also:county), 58 m. S. by E. of See also:Christiania by the Christiania-See also:Gothenburg railway. Pop. (1900) 14,553. It lies at the mouth and on the eastern See also:shore of Christiania See also:fjord, occupying both See also:banks of the See also:great See also:river Glommen, which, descending from the richly-wooded See also:district of Osterdal, floats down vast quantities of See also:timber. The new town on the right See also:bank is therefore a centre of the timber export See also:trade, this See also:place being the See also:principal See also:port in Norway for the export of See also:pit-props, planed boards, and other varieties of timber. There is also a great See also:industry in the making of red bricks, owing to the expansion of Christiania, Gothenburg and other towns. See also:Granite is quarried and exported. Besides the large number of'saw and planing See also:mills, there are See also:shipbuilding yards, See also:engine and See also:boiler See also:works, See also:cotton and woollen mills, and factories for acetic See also:acid and See also:naphtha. The See also:harbour, which can be entered by vessels See also:drawing 14 ft., is kept open in See also:winter by an See also:ice-breaker. In the vicinity is the See also:island Hankb, the most fashionable See also:Norwegian seaside resort. The old town on the See also:left bank was founded by See also:Frederick II. in 1567.

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long See also:time strongly fortified, and in 1716 See also:Charles XII. of See also:Sweden made a vain See also:attempt to See also:capture it.

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