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    however, that Svinhuvud was there from the beginning. The miner at Kopparberget, Hans Jönsson (mentioned 1430–1440), like his brother Dan Jönsson, vicar...
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    Enso. However, the town was founded as late as 1635 with the name Nya Kopparberget. It was named after the copper mines that were, in the 18th century,...
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    only one example is known to exist. This stamp was cancelled at Nya Kopparberget (now known as Kopparberg), about 150 kilometres (93 mi) from Uppsala...
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    The Battles of Kopparberget and Opphöga ferry were a series confrontations between an insurgent army under Erik Karlsson Vasa and a Dalecarlian army led...
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    which Bishop Peter of Västerås reacquires an eighth of Tiskasjöberg, Kopparberget. The original can be found at Riksarkivet (National Archive) in Stockholm...
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    epithet "the petrified miner". After the body was put on display in Stora Kopparberget, Margaret Olsdotter identified it as belonging to Fet-Mats Israelsson...
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    and the organisation for the extracting of copper and gold from Stora Kopparberget is believed to be the oldest still-existing enterprise in the world,...
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     17–18, 20. Retrieved 10 December 2017. Rydberg, Sven (1988). Det stora kopparberget: En tidsresa. Hedemora: Gidlunds. pp. 179–188. ISBN 91-7844-112-9. Andersson...
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    935–949. doi:10.1177/030631200030006006. Olsson, Daniels Sven (2010). Falu Gruva. Falun: Stiftelsen Stora Kopparberget. pp. 10–11. ISBN 9789185315024....
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    of the province. After Gustav Vasa captured the copper mine at Stora Kopparberget and the town of Västerås, more men joined his army. In 1522, the Hanseatic...
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  • getting a sausage. "Köppäbä" is a reference to the old name of Falun, Kopparberget, and not Kopparberg, as often believed. In 1981, the song was recorded...
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    and all commercial mining ceased. Today the mine is owned by the Stora Kopparberget foundation which operates the museum and tours. In 2001 Falun Mine was...
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    of Västerås acquired a 12.5% interest in Great Copper Mountain (Stora Kopparberget in Swedish) which contained the Falun Mine. The Swedish mining and forestry...
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    next decade on a history of the mining and copper production at Stora Kopparberget and a biography of the physicist and inventor Christopher Polhem, and...
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    reform proposals for the mining industry at Sala Silver Mine, and Stora Kopparberget, which produced two thirds of the world's copper. His brother Baltasar...
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