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BlekingeBlekinge, or Blechingia, is a traditional province or landskap in the south of Sweden. It borders to Småland, Skåne and to the Baltic Sea. There is also a County of Blekinge.
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The County of Blekinge has virtually the same boundaries as the province of Blekinge.
Historically the Province of Blekinge belonged to the Danish Crown, as a part of Skåneland, togeather with provinces Skåne and Halland, which made up the eastern part of the Danish kingdom. Blekinge became a Swedish province in 1658 due to the Treaty of Roskilde.
Blekinge has a scenic archipelago and it is sometimes called the "Garden of Sweden".
The town of Karlskrona was for almost 300 years the principal Naval Base in Sweden, and in 1998 it be came a site of the UNESCO World heritage program.
Blekinge was granted its arms at the funural of Charles X Gustav of Sweden in 1660, based on an seal from the 15th century. The arms is represented with a dukal coronet. Blazon: "Azure, an Oak Tree eradicated Or ensigned with three Crowns palewise of the same."
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pouts and whimpers. Such is the inevitable scene that takes place every
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strangeness of the language, costumes, and faces. For the last three
and their absence contributes, as is usually the case, to throw a veil of
starlit nights, sometimes through downpours of rain. Every morning as
reverberating air, I awake and go down toward the sea, by grassy pathways
We sit down on the mattings, in the antique-sellers' little booths,
the cupboards and chests, where many a fantastic piece of old rubbish is
for several days, as if we were trying to play off some excellent little
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finical; affected,--all Japan is contained, both physically and morally,
much more Japanese it really was, in its bare emptiness, such as M. Sucre
symbolism hanging from the ceiling; many stools and many vases, as many
been able to restrain her feelings, and before which she has fallen down
washes away uncleanness in the river of Kamo."
Alas for poor Ama-Terace-Omi-Kami to have to wash away the impurities of
lying down; although overcome with sleep, she prays clapping her hands
disrespect for her Buddha, as soon as her prayer is ended. I know that
ancestors), whose rather sumptuous altar is set up at the house of her
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