Sigtuna is a locality situated in the eponymous Sigtuna Municipality, in Stockholm County, Sweden with 9,689 inhabitants in 2020. It is the namesake even...
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Sigtuna Municipality (Sigtuna kommun) is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Märsta, approximately...
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The Pillage of Sigtuna was the raid of the Swedish town of Sigtuna by pagans from the Eastern Baltic in 1187. The pillage is most commonly attributed...
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Sigtuna IF is a sports club located in Sigtuna on the outskirts of Stockholm, Sweden. Sigtuna, mostly known for being the oldest town in Sweden is also...
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Signhildsberg (redirect from Old Sigtuna)
Signhildsberg (historically Fornsigtuna, where forn means ancient, Old Sigtuna, Sithun, Signesberg) is a manor that formerly was a royal estate (Uppsala...
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The Sigtuna amulet I or Sigtuna plate I (signum U Fv1933;134, also U Sl5 and S 5) is an 11th-century runic amulet found in 1931 in Sigtuna, Uppland. The...
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Sigtuna väravad (English: The Gates of Sigtuna) is a compilation of novels by Estonian author Karl Ristikivi. It was first published in 1968 in Lund, Sweden...
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Granby is a locality situated in Sigtuna Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden. Since 2015, Statistics Sweden has demarcated an urban area for this settlement...
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The Sigtuna box is a copper box from Sigtuna, Sweden, which was engraved with a runic inscription in the early 11th century. The box not only tells of...
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(in Strängnäs Municipality) Marstrand (in Kungälv Municipality) Sigtuna (in Sigtuna Municipality where the seat is Märsta) Skanör med Falsterbo (in Vellinge...
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Diocese of Sigtuna was a Catholic diocese founded in Sigtuna, Sweden, established in the mid 11th century. At the time, the town of Sigtuna, situated to...
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style. Sigtuna is written SITUN, ZINT (in the coin above), ZTNETEI, or SIDEI. The two last have been deciphered as Si(gtuna) Dei meaning God's Sigtuna. The...
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The Sigtuna rib (signum U NOR1998;25) is a 12th-century runic amulet found in the 1990s in Sigtuna, Uppland, Sweden The amulet is a rib bone with writing...
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a few months, they departed Närke, and by March went eastwards towards Sigtuna, where the Swedish king Anund Jacob had left them a ship. The party thereafter...
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from 1990 until 1993. It was always held at the Sigtuna Golf Club in Sigtuna, Sweden. "Results 1993 Sigtuna Ladies Open". Golfdata. Retrieved 17 May 2021...
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the Abbasid Caliphate. It was abandoned c. AD 975, around the same time Sigtuna was founded as a Christian town some 35 km to the northeast. It has been...
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Swedish Cricket Federation (redirect from Sigtuna CC)
The Swedish Cricket Federation (Swedish: Svenska Cricketförbundet) was established in 1990, and is the administrative organisation for all cricket in Sweden...
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the significant Swedish medieval cities Uppsala and Sigtuna. For instance, an attack on Sigtuna by Baltic Vikings in 1187 led to a battle at Almarestäket...
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St. Mary's Church (Swedish: Mariakyrkan) is a Lutheran church in Sigtuna, not far from Stockholm, Sweden. It belongs to the Archdiocese of Uppsala. The...
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provinces around Mälaren. In all probability he also founded the town of Sigtuna, which still exists and where the first Swedish coins were minted for his...
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Sigtuna Cricket Club was founded in 1989 and is based in Valsta near Stockholm in Sweden. Their home ground is situated between Arenberga and Norrbacka [sv]...
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Henry (bishop of Finland) (redirect from Henry, Bishop of Sigtuna)
Gesta Danorum from the early 13th century, he had fled to Denmark from Sigtuna, the see of the early Uppland bishops before it was moved a few kilometers...
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Oeselians. In 1187 Estonians (Oeselians), Curonians or/and Karelians sacked Sigtuna, which was a major city of Sweden at the time. Estonia could be divided...
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23 May 2000, in South Africa), is a Swedish actress. Rappich grew up in Sigtuna, a suburb to Stockholm in Sweden, and got her first role by chance when...
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Church 16 km Ed Church - Rosersberg Palace 14 km Rosersberg Palace - Sigtuna 13 km Sigtuna - Odensala Church 14 km Odensala Church - Alsike Church 14 km Alsike...
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Denmark, and Norway. He may have had coins minted either in the capital, Sigtuna, or in Lund, then part of Denmark, with the inscription CNVT REX SW ("Cnut...
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was in fact the land of "Sithun", translated into modern day language as Sigtuna, where Odin and his Aesir companions supposedly settled when they came...
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on fire burning everyone inside to death. Then Sölve arrived at Sigtuna (Old Sigtuna) and ordered the Swedes to accept him as king. The Swedes refused...
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Swedish. The previous capital of Sweden was located in Sigtuna. A thousand years ago Sigtuna had problems with armed gangs attacking the city. The situation...
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Robert Efraim Fast (21 January 1881 in Stockholm – 26 October 1959 in Sigtuna) was Swedish long distance runner who competed in the late 19th century...
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