Definition of christiania Christiania

Chris•ti•a•ni•a

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What does christiania mean?

WordNet

Noun
christiania - the capital and largest city of Norway; the country's main port; located at the head of a fjord on Norway's southern coast
		Oslo, Christiania, capital of Norway

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Wikipedia

Freetown Christiania, shortly and commonly called just Christiania'", is a danish special community, as a village,partially self-governing with 850 inhabitants, and with an area of 85 acres near the capital of Denmark, Copenhagen. The Freetown is always in the centre of controveries, since its creation in a squatted military area in 1971. In the Freetown, cannabis was legal until 2004. Inhabitans of Christiania are called "Christianites". Christiania has become home to several ventures such as carpenters, blacksmiths, a bikeshop, as well as several cafés, restaurants, jazz, blues and night clubs.

Born of Christiania.

After the military had left, the area was only guarded by a few watchmen and and sometimes of homeless people went in the area for sleep or for living there.On 4 September, 1971, neighbours of the area broke down a wall for making a place where their children could play.On 26 September, 1971, Christiania was opend to people by Jacob Ludvigsen, a well-known provo and journalist who published a magazine called "Hovedbladet" ('The main paper'). In the paper, Ludvigsen wrote an article in which he and five others went on exploration into what he called 'The Forbidden City of the Military'. The spirit of Christiania quickly developed into one of the hippie movement, the squatter movement, collectivism and anarchism, in contrast to the site's previous military use.

The Community.

Meditation and yoga have always been popular activities for the Christianites, and for man