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Kalmar is a city in Smaland in the south-east of Sweden, situated by the Baltic sea. It has 35.170 people(2005), and is the seat of Kalmar Municipality with a total of 61.321 people(2006). It is also the capitol of Kalmar county, which comprises 12 Municipality's with a total of 233.776 people(2006)
(Seal of Kalmar 13th century)
From the 13th to the 17th centuries, Kalmar was one of Sweden's most important cities, between 1602 and 1913 it was the episcopal see of Kalmar Diocese with a bishop, and a Kalmar cathedral from 1702 is still a fine example of classicist architecture. It became a fortified city with the still mighty Kalmar castle as the center. After the Treaty of Roskilde 1658 Kalmar's importance diminished, until the industry sector was initiated in the 19th century.
Geographically Kalmar is the main route to the island of Oland thanks to the Oland bridge.
In 1611-1613, it suffered in the Kalmar War, which began with a Danish siege of Kalmar castle. 1611 is mentioned as the darkest year of Kalmar history. But by no means the only dark year, much blood has been shed in the vicinity of the castle. The last was during the Scanian War in the 1670's, leading it's siege to a total of 22-yet, the castle was never taken.
TODAY.
In more recent time's, Kalmar has been an industrial city with Kalmar Mekaniska Verkstad making steam engines and large machinery, it has a university with over 9,000 studants(University of Kalmar) and a research facility for Talina Sonera.
Well there you go, just in case you wanted to know where the name came from!!!
Have a good one............Coran
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalmar
2 comments:
Very informative brother but I still don’t see the connection between the band and the city, is it that one of you is from Sweden?
no it doesnt mean one of us is from sweedan i wish it did, but i found this out after we picked the name.
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