FREDRIKSTAD (FREDERIKSTAD)  , a seaport and manufacturing town of Norway in Smaalenene amt (county), 58 m . S. by E. of Christiania by the Christiania-Gothenburg railway . Pop . (1900) 14,553 . It lies at the mouth and on the eastern shore of Christiania fjord, occupying both banks of the great river Glommen, which, descending from the richly-wooded district of Osterdal, floats down vast quantities of timber . The new town on the right bank is therefore a centre of the timber export trade, this place being the principal port in Norway for the export of pit-props, planed boards, and other varieties of timber . There is also a great industry in the making of red bricks, owing to the expansion of Christiania, Gothenburg and other towns . Granite is quarried and exported . Besides the large number of'saw and planing mills, there are shipbuilding yards, engine and boiler works, cotton and woollen mills, and factories for acetic acid and naphtha . The harbour, which can be entered by vessels drawing 14 ft., is kept open in winter by an ice-breaker . In the vicinity is the island Hankb, the most fashionable Norwegian seaside resort . The old town on the left bank was founded by Frederick II. in 1567 .

It was for a

long time strongly fortified, and in 1716 Charles XII. of Sweden made a vain attempt to capture it .