Blekinge County - Contea di Blekinge

Blekinge County

Location
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State	Sweden
Capital	Karlskrona
Surface	2 941 km²
Inhabitants	153.348 (2010)
Tourism site
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Blekinge is a county of the Götaland in Sweden.

To know

Blekinge was the name of a historical province (landskap) of southern Sweden, now absorbed with the almost coincident county. It borders on the Småland, the Scania, the Kronoberg County, the Kalmar County and the Baltic Sea. The name derives from the adjective bleke, which corresponds to the marine term "calm". The Latinized version is Blekingia.

Geographical notes

Blekinge has a scenic archipelago, and the province is sometimes referred to as "the Garden of Sweden".

Background

Originally the Blekinge belonged to the crown of Denmark together with the provinces of Scania (Skåne) e Halland, which formed the eastern part of the Danish kingdom (the so-called Terra Scania). It became a Swedish province in 1658, following the Treaty of Roskilde. The centers that had the status of cities were Karlshamn (from 1664), Karlskrona (1680), Ronneby (1387), Sölvesborg (1445) Of these cities, Karlskrona was for nearly 300 years the main Swedish naval base, and in 1998 it was declared by theUNESCO World Heritage Site.

Spoken languages

In Blekinge, a variety of the Skanska dialect (Blekingska) is spoken, which was previously considered an Eastern dialect of the language. Danish but today it is considered a southern dialect of Swedish.