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Christian IV

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Christian IV (1577-1648)

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King Christian IV of Denmark, in a painting by Pieter Isaacsz, dated 1612.

King of Denmark and Norway from 1588. He sided with the Protestants in the Thirty Years' War (1618-48), and founded Christiania (now Oslo, capital of Norway). He was succeeded by Frederick II in 1648.


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Founded by Christian IV in 1618 as a separate port, the area became immensely important after 1658, when Denmark lost Scania, Halland and Blekinge, 10 years after Christian IV died.
The oldest part of Oslo (Christiania) dates back to the King Christian IV plan of 1624, which imposed a regular gridded pattern on the urban grain.
 
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