Stavanger (nor)

Stavanger

Stavanger ranks 396th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Croydon, Palo Alto, California, and Schwerin. Memorable people born in Stavanger include Peder Severin Krøyer, Christian Lous Lange, and Alexander Kielland. Memorable people who died in Stavanger include Gabriel Thorstensen and Reidar Kvammen. Stavanger has been the birth place of many soccer players and handball players and the death place of many gymnasts and soccer players. Stavanger is located in Norway.

Stavanger is a city and municipality in Norway. It is the third largest city and third largest metropolitan area in Norway and the administrative center of Rogaland county. The municipality is the fourth most populous in Norway. Located on the Stavanger Peninsula in southwest Norway, Stavanger counts its official founding year as 1125, the year the Stavanger Cathedral was completed. Stavanger's core is to a large degree 18th- and 19th-century wooden houses that are protected and considered part of the city's cultural heritage. This has caused the town center and inner city to retain a small-town character with an unusually high ratio of detached houses, and has contributed significantly to spreading the city's population growth to outlying parts of Greater Stavanger. Read more on Wikipedia