Blekinges största markägare
Planera din resa Etapper. This article is about the traditional province. The historical provinces of Sweden serve no administrative function. Download as PDF Printable version. For Riksdag constituency, see Blekinge County Riksdag constituency.
Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Blekinge was granted its current arms in at the time of the funeral of King Charles X Gustav of Sweden — based on a seal from the 15th century. After the Swedish takeover two new towns, Karlshamn chartered in and Karlskrona , were built, and the populations of Ronneby and Kristianopel were forcibly relocated to them. Karlskrona has for more than years been the principal naval base in Sweden.
Geography [ edit ]. The name "Blekinge" comes from the dialectal adjective bleke , which corresponds to the nautical term for "dead calm". Coat of arms. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. For the administrative county, see Blekinge County. This article needs additional citations for verification. Football in the province is administered by Blekinge Fotbollförbund.
Tools Tools. Historical province. Blekinge skärgård sträcker sig över stora delar av Blekinges kust och består av mindre och större öar samt holmar och skär med omkringliggande fjärdar. As a border province, Blekinge was often raided and looted by Swedish troops during Danish—Swedish wars. Blekinge was a part of Sweden until the early 13th century when it became part of Denmark the Danish Census Book contains the first secure written evidence of Danish control.
In other projects. Today, the dialect is not as significant as before, with the exception of Listerlandet with its special language. The arms is represented with a ducal coronet. At this time, Vesan was a small island surrounded by open grassland. Historical province in Götaland, Sweden. Blekinge called härad in Swedish, in Svealand called hundare were the historical subdivisions of a Swedish province.
Relative to the rest of Sweden Blekinge has warm summers and mild winters.
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Article Talk. In Blekinge the dialect was historically closely related to Danish and eastern Scanian , which is most likely an effect of the former administrative links to Scania. Wikimedia Commons Wikidata item. Hundreds in Götaland incl. Symbolically the three crowns from the Coat of arms of Sweden had been placed on the trunk of the tree to mark the change in status of the former Danish province, that now belonged to Sweden.
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Blekingeleden går till stor del över privatägd mark där drygt olika markägare tillåter ledens sträckning och bidrar till att göra Blekinges unika natur tillgänglig. Read Edit View history. Historical province of Sweden. Evidence of human habitation in western Blekinge dates circa BC in the Vesan area. Administration [ edit ]. It borders Småland , Scania and the Baltic Sea. It is the country's second-smallest province by area only Öland is smaller , and the smallest province located on the mainland.
In , it was ceded to Sweden according to the Treaty of Roskilde and has remained Swedish ever since. During the Danish era, the port town of Sölvesborg was the seat of the administration in the western part of the province and Kristianopel in the eastern part. Notable fortifications during this period included sites at Elleholm , Sölvesborg , Lyckeby and Avaskär. However, Blekinge is the only province, besides Gotland , which covers exactly the same area as the administrative county , which is Blekinge County.
A later settlement in the nearby Ljungaviken is dated to BC and contains the remains of at least 50 wooden houses and a buried dog. Contents move to sidebar hide. The nature of Blekinge is characterized by its oak forests with occasional hazel and common hornbeam.