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GotlandGotland, or Gothlandia, is the largest island, and a historical province or landskap, of Sweden. It is located in the Baltic Sea to the east of Öland.
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The island province of Gotland is represented by the current administrative entity, the County of Gotland. The island is also a single municipality.
Early on Gotland became a commerical center and the town of Visby was a member of the Hanseatic league. A civil war caused by conflicts between German merchants in Visby and the trading peasants on the countryside had to be put down by King Magnus I of Sweden in 1288. In 1361, Waldemar Atterdag of Denmark invaded the island. By the Treaty of Brömsebro[?] in 1645 the island was returned to Swedish rule.
Visby, founded approximately around the year 1000, was the only chartered city of Gotland. Gotland in the Baltic Sea is located about 90 km off the Swedish mainland. The province also includes the minor islands of Fårö, the Karlsö islands and Gotska sandön.
The medieval town of Visby has been entered as a site of the UNESCO World heritage program. An impressive feature of Visby is the fortress wall that surrounds the city, dating from the time of the Hanseatic League. Christopher Polhem[?] (1661-1751), the father of Swedish mechanical physics was born in Visby. He was also called the Archimedes of the north. The inhabitants of Gotland traditionally speak a distinct dialect of Swedish, known as Gutnish.
Gotland was granted its arms in 1560, even though the island was at the time occupied by Danish forces. The coat of arms is represented with a dukal coronet. Blazon: "Azure a ram stantant Argent armed Or holding on a cross-staff of the same a banner Gules bordered and with five tails of the third."
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colleague, in a turbulent stream. At the same moment my own
and the din became deafening. Every one had something to say, and
which was drowned in the uproar. I drew her towards the stairs,
taken him.'
Glossop came up at a gallop, springing from stair to stair like
sending some men at once. Mr Glossop, was Ogden Ford in your
night belonged! This is preposterous. My nerves will not stand
villains must be brought to justice. I never heard of such a
Macbeth's deportment when confronted with Banquo's ghost was
upset the smooth peace of our happy little community to quite a
belated sense of professional duty returned to Glossop and myself.
respective styles, to produce order. It was not an easy task.
provocation. When they get a genuine excuse like the incursion of
back with Browning pistols, they tend to eclipse themselves. I
that the hour of Buck's visit had chanced to fall within a short
lain outside the sphere of our visitors' operations. As in many
end of a long corridor, shut off by doors through which even
moreover, the misfortune to be somewhat deaf, with the result
house, she, like the lady in Goethe's poem, had gone on cutting
quell the uproar, there rose above it the ringing of the.
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