Laurvik, a seaport of Norway, at the head of a small fjord on the western side of Christiania Fjord, 98 miles by rail SSW. of Christiania. It has several sawmills, and exports timber and other products to the value of £155,000 annually; annual imports, £170,510. Pop. (1886) 11,196.
Laurvik
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 537
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