The city of Trondheim was founded in the year 997 by the Viking King Olav Tryggvason, and became the center of power and the first capital of Norway. Trondheim is today the third largest city in Norway with approximately 150,000 residents. 25,000 students makes Trondheim the second largest city of education in Norway. Trondheim is also a modern hi-tech city, with The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, at the heart of a research milieu that ranks among Europe's foremost centres of technology. The newly reorganized university, with its roots back to 1760, covers general university faculties like humanistic, natural sciences, social sciences, and medicine, but has a heavy weight on technology and science. NTNU is a natural anchor in the city of Trondheim, which is known as the "Technological Capital of Norway". More information about Trondheim and NTNU is available by clicking on the names.