Bud, Norway

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Bud is a fishing village (est. 700) in western Norway, on the Atlantic Road, outside the city of Kristiansund. Due to a good natural harbor and rich fisheries, Bud grew to become the largest town between Trondheim and Bergen in the Middle Ages.

At the death of king Frederick I in 1533, it was the site of the last independent Norwegian Privy Council, organized by Archbishop Olav Engelbrektsson of Nidaros. The meeting led to a failed attempt to break away from the Kalmar Union and King Christian III, and claim Norway's independence by rejecting the Protestant Reformation.

The council was the last of its kind in Norway for 270 years.

During World War II, the Germans heavily fortified Bud in anticipation of an Allied invasion, as a part of the Atlantic Wall.

Bud was also a municipality from 1837 to 1 January 1964, when it became a part of Fræna.