Christiania, the capital of Norway, romantically situated at the head of Christiania Fiord; the residence of the king and the seat of government; a manufacturing and trading city, but it is blocked up against traffic for four months in the year.
Population (circa 1900) given as 130,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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