Christiania
a city and port, the capital of Norway, at the head of the long narrow inlet called Christiania Fjord, about 60 miles from the open sea or Skagerrack. The houses are mostly of brick and stone, generally plain buildings, devoid of architectural pretension. Important public buildings are the royal palace, the house of representatives, or Storthing, the governor's palace, and the cathedral. An interesting building is the fine old castle of Aggershuus, with its church and citadel crowning a point jutting out into the fjord. Attached to the university-the only one in Norway, opened in 1813-is a museum, containing a fine collection of antiquities and a library with over 500,000 volumes. The manufactures of the city consist of woolen cloth, ironware, tobacco, paper, leather, soap, spirits, glass, etc., and there are extensive breweries. The exports are principally timber and iron. CHRISTIANITY It has a very spacious harbor, regular steamship connection with many foreign countries, including the United States, and handles about one-half the imports and about one-third the exports to and from Norway. The environs are exceedingly beautiful. Pop. (1918) 259,445.