a city in southeast Norway, the country's capital and main port. formerly (1624-1925) Christiania City and municipality (pop., 2002 est.: municipality, 512,589), capital of Norway. It lies at the northern end of Oslo Fjord and constitutes a separate county. It was founded by King Harald III Sigurdsson 1050. Haakon V built the Akershus fortress 1300. After it was destroyed by fire in 1624, King Christian II of Denmark-Norway built a new town farther west and called it Christiania. It grew in the 19th century, partly by absorbing neighbouring towns, and replaced Bergen as Norway's largest and most influential city. It was renamed Oslo in 1925 and developed rapidly after World War II. It is the country's principal commercial, industrial, and transportation centre, and its harbour is the largest and busiest in Norway
the capital and largest city of Norway; the country's main port; located at the head of a fjord on Norway's southern coast
agreement between Israel and the Palestinians which included security arrangements and partial Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip
an official peace agreement made between Israel and the PLO (=Palestine Liberation Organization) in Oslo in 1993, by which Israel agreed to remove its military forces from the Gaza Strip and Jericho