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    Hall Church (Swedish: Halls kyrka) is a 13th-century church in Hall on the Swedish island of Gotland, built in a transitional style between Romanesque...
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    administrative Hall District, established on 1 January 2016. Hall is situated on the north coast of Gotland. The medieval Hall Church is located in the...
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    There are 92 well-preserved churches from the Middle Ages on the Swedish island of Gotland, more than in any other part of Sweden and unusually many compared...
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    Visby Cathedral (category Churches in Gotland County)
    a hall church, which it still is. In 1361, Gotland and the church became part of Denmark. Following the Reformation, it was the only medieval church in...
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    Vamlingbo Church (Swedish: Vamlingbo kyrka) is a medieval church on the Swedish island of Gotland, and one of the largest on the island. It lies in the...
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    Roma Church (Swedish: Roma kyrka) is a medieval church in Lövsta, Gotland (Sweden). The church is one of the largest countryside churches on Gotland. Built...
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    The War on Gotland (Swedish: Kriget på Gotland) was a successful Lübeckian invasion of Gotland in 1525. In 1524, during the Swedish War of Liberation...
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    Hellvi (redirect from Ytterholmen, Gotland)
    Church belongs to Forsa parish in Norra Gotlands pastorat, along with the churches in Lärbro, Hangvar, Hall and Hallshuk. In the 1980s, a ceremonial...
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    are Maria Minor church in Lund, with its traces of a post church with palisades, and some old parts of Hemse stave church on Gotland. In Skåne alone there...
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    list of tallest church buildings ranks church buildings by height. From the Middle Ages until the advent of the skyscraper, Christian church buildings were...
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    Levide Church (Swedish: Levide kyrka) is a medieval church on the Swedish island of Gotland. It lies in the Diocese of Visby. Levide Church is a largely...
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    also used as a concert hall. The church was founded and built around 1230–1275 by Westphalian merchants, who came from Gotland in the 13th century. While...
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    Hangvar (category Populated places in Gotland County)
    Hangvar Church belongs to Forsa parish in Norra Gotlands pastorat, along with the churches in Lärbro, Hellvi, Hall and Hallshuk. Located on the west coast of...
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    Lummelunda Cave (category Gotland)
    Robbers' Den") is located in a nature reserve at Lummelunda north of Visby on Gotland, Sweden. The explored part of this karst cave is almost 4.5 km (2.8 mi)...
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    Lärbro (category Populated places in Gotland County)
    northern part of Gotland, approximately 8 km (5.0 mi) north of Slite. As of 2019[update], Lärbro Church belongs to Forsa parish in Norra Gotlands pastorat, along...
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    the church. As the main parish church of the citizens and the city council of Lübeck, it was built close to the town hall and the market. The church was...
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    Visby City Wall (category Tourist attractions in Gotland County)
    defensive wall surrounding the Swedish town of Visby on the island of Gotland. As the strongest, most extensive, and best preserved medieval city wall...
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  • Scandinavian colony from Gotland. Many of the graves in level ground were of women, who could be identified as natives of Gotland by their belt-buckles and...
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    Stenkyrka (category Populated places in Gotland County)
    As of 2019[update], Stenkyrka Church belongs to Stenkyrka parish in Norra Gotlands pastorat, along with the churches in Martebo, Tingstäde and Lummelunda...
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    Christoffer Valkendorff (category Burials at the Church of Our Lady, Copenhagen)
    Iceland in 1570 and was instead granted the fief of Gotland in August 1571. The situation on Gotland was chaotic but Valnendorf managed to restore piece...
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    very slow and took at least 150 to 200 years. On the Swedish island of Gotland a Gotlandic law book known as the Gutalagen was officially in use from...
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    Victual Brothers (category Gotland)
    took over the island of Gotland. Their influence in the Baltic region declined after the Teutonic Order drove them out of Gotland in 1398. After being expelled...
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    Lojsta (category Populated places in Gotland County)
    area surrounding medieval Lojsta Church, the Lojsta socken. Lojsta is north of Hemse in the middle of southern Gotland. The forested north part of the...
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    Uppsala Cathedral (category Church frescos in Sweden)
    University Hall of Uppsala University and the Fyris river in the centre of Uppsala, Sweden. A church of the Church of Sweden, the national church, in the...
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    Gutnic or Gotlanders had a big role. Their most important city was Visby on Gotland. The Scandinavian-Gotlandic traders had a trading post in Novgorod called...
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    Vendelzeit Gotlands: Provisorisches Verzeichnis der Tafelfiguren (in German). Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell. Nerman, Birger (1975). Die Vendelzeit Gotlands (I:1):...
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  • Götaland and Skåne counties registered the most same-sex marriages, while Gotland, Jämtland and Blekinge registered the fewest. In 2009, Eva Brunne was elected...
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    belysning". Institutionen för arkeologi och osteologi vid Högskolan på Gotland. Retrieved 1 November 2015. (In Swedish.) Hadenius, Stig; Nilsson, Torbjörn...
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    ('Thursday') and by a runic inscription from around 700 from Hallbjäns in Sundre, Gotland, which includes the sequence "þunurþurus".: 709–11  Finally, *Þunaraz is...
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    display at the Gotland Museum in Visby. Hylestad Stave Church List of runestones All noted by Richard Hall, Viking Age Archaeology 1995:40. Hall 1995:40. Staecker...
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