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    Björkö just south of Adelsö. Hovgården is believed to have been the site from which kings and chieftains ruled the area. Hovgården, together with Birka became...
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    (Kungsgården) was next to Hovgården and the monarch ruled over the nearby city of Birka. This is also the site of Kungshögarna at Hovgården. Kungs means king...
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    Commons has media related to Birka. Birka and Hovgården at the Swedish National Heritage Board Birka and Hovgården – at UNESCO Reconstructions of Bone Flutes...
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    municipality. The Viking Age settlements Birka on the island of Björkö and Hovgården on the neighbouring island Adelsö have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site...
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  • property. Gamla Uppsala Husby at Vendel Fornsigtuna Husaby Ränninge on Fogdö Hovgården on Adelsö The article Uppsala öd in Nationalencyklopedin (1996). The article...
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    Alsnö hus (Alsnö House) is the ruin of a palace at the Hovgården settlement archaeological site, located on the island of Adelsö (formerly called Alsnö)...
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    Drottningholm Palace Birka & Hovgården Engelsberg Ironworks Tanumshede Skogskyrkogården Visby Gammelstad Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland Laponian...
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    housing the excavation site Birka populated c. 750-975 CE, together with Hovgården on Adelsö declared a World Heritage Site in 1993. Located just south of...
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    it was Håkan the Red who ordered the carving of a runestone found in Hovgården (Adelsö island in Lake Mälaren, Uppland, Sweden). The Rundata catalog...
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    is located near the ruins of the old king's dwelling at Alsnö hus near Hovgården on the island of Adelsö in Sweden. This runestone has an intricate design...
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  • Monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe Cultural 665  Sweden Birka and Hovgården Cultural 555 Engelsberg Ironworks Cultural 556  Uzbekistan Historic Centre...
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  • Öland, visited for its geological and geographical features Birka and Hovgården on the islands Björkö and Adelsö in Mälaren near Stockholm The church...
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    remains, eight medieval churches, and old towns. . On the Adelsö Island is Hovgården, together with Birka a world heritage site, featuring barrows, thick walls...
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    Rundata catalog designation for a Viking Age memorial runestone located at Hovgården (Hov Synod), which is seven kilometers north of Väderstad, Östergötland...
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  • Landscape of Southern Öland". UNESCO. Retrieved 20 October 2011. "Birka and Hovgården". UNESCO. Retrieved 20 October 2011. This article contains quotations...
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  • Århus, and appears as a name or part of a name on inscriptions Ög 77 in Hovgården, Ög 217 in Oppeby, Sm 2 in Aringsås, and Sm 131 in Hjortholmen. The text...
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  • "unvillainous." This term is used as a descriptive term on runestones Ög 77 in Hovgården, Sö 189 in Åkerby, Sm 5 in Transjö, Sm 37 in Rörbro, Sm 147 in Vasta Ed...
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    Romanesque church, itself founded in the 12th century, is located next to Hovgården, an excavation site and a World Heritage Site dating back to before the...
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    "unvillainous." It is used as a descriptive term on inscriptions Ög 77 in Hovgården, Sö 189 in Åkerby, Sm 5 in Transjö, Sm 37 in Rörbro, Sm 147 in Vasta Ed...
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