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Unification of Norway | |||||||||
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| 872 860s–1020s: Successive territorial expansion | |||||||||
 Unification process of the petty kingdoms, about 872. | |||||||||
| Capital | Ǫgvaldsnes | ||||||||
| Common languages | Old Norse | ||||||||
| Religion | Norse paganism | ||||||||
| Government | Kingdoms unification | ||||||||
| Kings | |||||||||
• Before 872 | petty kings and earls | ||||||||
• From 872 | Harald Fairhair | ||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
| 860s | |||||||||
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| 872 | |||||||||
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The Unification of Norway (Norwegian Bokmål: Rikssamlingen) is the process by which Norway merged from several petty kingdoms into a single kingdom, predecessor to the modern Kingdom of Norway.[1]
- ^ Per G. Norseng. "Norsk historie fra 800 til 1130". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved June 1, 2019.