Visby City Wall (Swedish: Visby ringmur, "Visby Ring Wall", sometimes Visby stadsmur, "Visby City Wall") is a medieval defensive wall surrounding the...
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and ransoming of Visby is staged at the historical site. Since 2011, the Battle of Visby itself is reenacted outside the Visby city wall with participants...
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2017[update]. Visby is also the episcopal see for the Diocese of Visby. The Hanseatic city of Visby is arguably the best-preserved medieval city in Scandinavia...
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outside Visby on 27 July. The inhabitants of Visby date and opened the city gates to the victor, after which the so-called fire assessment of Visby took...
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Eketorp fortress on the island Öland, the Nyköping fortress and the Visby city wall. In the 1520s, King Gustav Vasa initiated grand mansions, castles,...
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once did. The album cover shows Elma sitting on the miniature of the Visby City Wall near the Snäckgärdsporten The first press limited edition contains...
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population is 61,023 (2024) of which about 23,600 live in Visby, the main town. Outside Visby, there are minor settlements and a mainly rural population...
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War in Gotland (1525) (category Visby)
supported the Lübeckian entry into Visby. The tradition claims that the Lübeck army entered Visby by tearing down part of the wall between Snäckgärdsporten and...
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Visby Cathedral (Swedish: Visby domkyrka), formally Visby Saint Mary's Cathedral (Visby Sankta Maria domkyrka), is a cathedral within the Church of Sweden...
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Palace Birka & Hovgården Engelsberg Ironworks Tanumshede Skogskyrkogården Visby Gammelstad Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland Laponian area Karlskrona...
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water. She served her sentence at the Kajsatornet (Kajsa Tower) at the Visby city wall. Brita Biörn is confirmed alive as late as 1745, but her exact year...
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– the old town walls remain largely intact, especially at the north, west and riverside of the old town. Zaragoza City wall of Visby Gothenburg has a...
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In the Midst of Flowers, 1887 Tambourine Dancer, 1888 Castle Ruins (Visby City Wall), possibly 1888 Girl Watering Flowers, possibly early 1890s Portrait...
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1884 to 1886 he led the works for the preservation of the medieval Visby City Wall (Visby ringmur). From 1886 to 1893 was the building manager for the restoration...
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of which lie in Visby, the island's main town. Of these, ten lie within the medieval city walls. Three additional church ruins in Visby are known through...
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pirates from the island, and stopped indiscriminate plundering. At Visby's city wall, they began construction of a new fortification, which would later...
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War in Gotland (1288) (section Attack on Visby)
1280s, the city of Visby started construction of a large wall around its perimeters to prevent the rural people of Gotland to trade in the city, and the...
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Gotland Museum (category Visby)
museum) (previously known as Länsmuseet på Gotland or Gotlands Fornsal) in Visby, Sweden, is the county museum of Gotland. It was founded by the Friends...
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Guard Swedish military bicycle Torstenson War Treaty of Gotland (1288) Visby city wall In an interim period between the Fourth and Fifth periods, spanning...
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entering Visby. The peasants were aggrieved over the new duties that had been introduced in 1288, after completion of the City wall of Visby. Many of...
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Almedalen (category Visby)
pronunciation: [ˈalmɛˈdɑːlɛn], lit. 'The Elm Valley') is a park in the Swedish city of Visby on the island of Gotland. It is well known in Sweden as the central...
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of Visby on Gotland, Sweden. The area is bounded to the west by the cliff edge, in the east by County Road 149, and in the south by the town of Visby. Galgberget...
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effectively drive away the pirates and stopped plundering. At the wall around Visby, they began construction of a new fortification, which later became...
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Hanseatic League (redirect from Hanse city)
Latvian.: 230–231 Visby, on the island of Gotland, functioned as the leading center in the Baltic before the Hansa. Sailing east, Visby merchants established...
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area on Torsburgen is about twice the size of the land enclose by the Visby city wall. The fort follows the natural edge of the plateau. The steep cliffs...
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song for Warner Classics (8573 80243–2), with Sakari Oramo conducting the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. The Chatelaine is a dea ex machina. Hertzberg...
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Stockholm (redirect from Stockholm City)
Hamburg, Gdańsk (Danzig), Visby, Tallinn (Reval), and Riga during this time. The strategic and economic importance of the city made Stockholm an important...
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Breakwater (structure) (redirect from Break wall)
horizontal wave pressure on the vertical wall. Such a design provides additional protection on the sea side and a quay wall on the inner side of the breakwater...
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stealth missile coastal corvette in service with the Royal Norwegian Navy Visby-class corvette, a stealth ship currently in service with the Swedish Navy...
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daughter of a Visby goldsmith was walled up alive for betraying the town to the Danes out of love for the Danish king Valdemar Atterdag."Visby Tourist Attractions...
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