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Älvsborg County
Älvsborg County ( sv, Älvsborgs län) was a county of Sweden until 1997, when it was merged with the counties of Gothenburg & Bohus and Skaraborg to form Västra Götaland County. The county corresponded to the traditional province of Dalsland and the central part of the province of Västergötland, and its coat of arms was created by quartering the respective arms of those provinces. Älvsborg County initially encompassed the entire western half of Västergötland, and was named after Älvsborg Castle, which is where the county administration was initially based. Älvsborg was demolished in the 1660s and the county seat moved to nearby Gothenburg, but the county continued to bear the name Älvsborg. Under the 1658 Treaty of Roskilde, the Norwegian province of Bohuslen ( sv, Bohuslän) was transferred to Sweden, and in 1680 it was decided to form a new county comprising Bohuslän and the western part of Västergötland, creating the new Gothenburg and Bohus County. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridgetunnel across the Öresund. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic country, the third-largest country in the European Union, and the fifth-largest country in Europe. The capital and largest city is Stockholm. Sweden has a total population of 10.5 million, and a low population density of , with around 87% of Swedes residing in urban areas in the central and southern half of the country. Sweden has a nature dominated by forests and a large amount of lakes, including some of the largest in Europe. Many long rivers run from the Scandes range through the landscape, primarily ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quartering (heraldry)
Quartering is a method of joining several different coats of arms together in one shield by dividing the shield into equal parts and placing different coats of arms in each division. Typically, a quartering consists of a division into four equal parts, two above and two below (''party per cross''). Occasionally the division is instead along both diagonals ( party per saltire'') again creating four parts but now at top, bottom, left, and right. An example of ''party per cross'' is the Sovereign Arms of the United Kingdom, as used outside Scotland, which consists of four quarters, displaying the Arms of England, Scotland and Ireland, with the coat for England repeated at the end. (In the royal arms as used in Scotland, the Scottish coat appears in the first and fourth quarters and the English one second.). An example of ''party per saltire'' is the arms of the medieval Kingdom of Sicily which also consists of four sections, with top and bottom displaying the coat of the Crow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Former Counties Of Sweden
A former is an object, such as a template, gauge or cutting die, which is used to form something such as a boat's hull. Typically, a former gives shape to a structure that may have complex curvature. A former may become an integral part of the finished structure, as in an aircraft fuselage, or it may be removable, being using in the construction process and then discarded or re-used. Aircraft formers Formers are used in the construction of aircraft fuselage, of which a typical fuselage has a series from the nose to the empennage, typically perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the aircraft. The primary purpose of formers is to establish the shape of the fuselage and reduce the column length of stringers to prevent instability. Formers are typically attached to longerons, which support the skin of the aircraft. The "former-and-longeron" technique (also called stations and stringers) was adopted from boat construction, and was typical of light aircraft built until the ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Governors Of Sweden
A county administrative board ( sv, länsstyrelse) is a Swedish Government Agency in each of the counties of Sweden, led by a vice-regal governor ( sv, landshövding) appointed by the government for a term of six years. The lists of gubernatorial officeholders, in most cases, stretches back to 1634 when the counties were created by Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna. The main responsibilities of the county administrative board is to coordinate the development of the county in line with goals set in national politics. In each county there is also a County Council which is a policy-making assembly elected by the residents of the county. The capital of a county is in Swedish called ''residensstad'' ("residence city") because it is the seat of residence of the governor. See also *Governor of Stockholm * List of Swedish Governors-General *Provincial Governors of Finland The Governor, fi, Maaherra, or sv, Landshövding, of a province of Finland headed the activities of the State P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Västra Götaland Governors
A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union club Other uses * Angle of list, the leaning to either port or starboard of a ship * List (information), an ordered collection of pieces of information ** List (abstract data type), a method to organize data in computer science * List on Sylt, previously called List, the northernmost village in Germany, on the island of Sylt * ''List'', an alternative term for ''roll'' in flight dynamics * To ''list'' a building, etc., in the UK it means to designate it a listed building that may not be altered without permission * Lists (jousting), the barriers used to designate the tournament area where medieval knights jousted * ''The Book of Lists'', an American series of books with unusual lists See also * The List (other) * Listing (di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Governors Of Skaraborg County
{{Unsourced, date=January 2014 This is a list of governors of Skaraborg County of Sweden from 1683 to its dissolution in 1997, when it was merged with Gothenburg and Bohus County and Älvsborg County to form Västra Götaland County. * Peter Örneklou (1683–1690) * Harald Strömfelt (1695–1707) * Carl Gustaf Soop (1707–1711) * Germund Cederhielm d.ä. (1712–1716) * Germund Cederhielm d.y. (1716) * Peter Scheffer (1716–1723) * Gustaf Rålamb (1723–1727) * Erik Wrangel (1727–1729) * Gustaf Palmfelt (1729–1733) *Frans Joachim Ehrenstrahl (1733–1735) * Gabriel Falkenberg (1735–1748) *Gabriel Gabrielsson Falkenberg (1748–1761) *Adam Otto Lagerberg (1761–1778) * Claes Erik Silfverhielm (1778–1784) * Claes Julius Ekeblad (1784–1796) *Johan Adam Hierta (1796–1810) *Georg Adlersparre (1810–1824) * Arvid Posse (1824–1831) * Carl Henrik Gyllenhaal (1831–1837) * Wilhelm Albrecht d'Orchimont (1837–1851) * Anders Peter Sandströmer (1851–1857) * Jonas W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Governors Of Gothenburg And Bohus County
{{Short description, none This is a list of governors of Gothenburg and Bohus County of Sweden from 1680 to its dissolution in 1997, when it was merged with Skaraborg County and Älvsborg County to form Västra Götaland County. *Georg Lybecker (1680–1682) * Johan von Schönleben (1682–1700) * Erik Siöblad (1700–1711) * Carl Gustaf Mörner (1712–1719) * Nils Posse (1719–1723) * Axel Gyllenkrok (1723–1730) * Bengt Ribbing (1730–1741) * Lorentz Kristoffer Stobée (1741–1749) * Johan von Kaulbars (1749–1762) * Didrik Henrik Taube (1763–1772) * Anders Du Rietz (1772–1790) * Johan Beck-Friis (1790–1796) * Samuel af Forselles (1796–1800) * Johan Fredrik Carpelan (1800–1808) * Axel von Rosen (1809–1834) * Gillis Edenhjelm (1835–1843) * Carl Gustaf Löwenhielm (1843–1847) * Olof Fåhræus (1847–1864) *Albert Ehrensvärd (1864–1885) * Gustaf Fredrik Snoilsky (1885–1897) * Gustaf Lagerbring (1897–1917) *Oscar von Sydow (1917–1934) * Malte Jacobsson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Governors Of Älvsborg County
This is a list of governors of Älvsborg County of Sweden from 1634 to its dissolution in 1997, when it was merged with Gothenburg and Bohus County and Skaraborg County to form Västra Götaland County. * Johan Henriksson Reuter (1634–1644) *Nils Assersson Mannersköld (1644–1648) * Per Ribbing (1648–1663) * Per Larsson Sparre (1663–1674) * Henrik Falkenberg (1674–1676) * Hans Mörner (1676–1679) * Henrik von Vicken (1679–1690) * Lars Eldstierna (1690–1693) * David Makeléer (1693–1708) * Axel von Faltzburg (1708–10) * Anders Sparrfelt (1710–16) * Gustaf Fock (1716–25) * Olof Gyllenborg (1725–33) * Johan Palmfelt (1733–39) * Axel Erik Roos (1740–49) * Carl Broman (1749–51) * Adolf Mörner (1751–56) * Johan Råfelt (1756–63) * Mauritz Posse (1763–69) * Sven Cederström (1769–75) * Michaël von Törne (1775–85) * Fredric Lilliehorn (1785–1809) *Johan Adam Hierta Johan * Johan (given name) * ''Johan'' (film), a 1921 Swedish film directed b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Misnomer
A misnomer is a name that is incorrectly or unsuitably applied. Misnomers often arise because something was named long before its correct nature was known, or because an earlier form of something has been replaced by a later form to which the name no longer suitably applies. A misnomer may also be simply a word that someone uses incorrectly or misleadingly. The word "misnomer" does not mean " misunderstanding" or " popular misconception", and a number of misnomers remain in common usage — which is to say that a word being a misnomer does not necessarily make usage of the word incorrect. Sources of misnomers Some of the sources of misnomers are: * An older name being retained after the thing named has changed (e.g., tin can, mince meat pie, steamroller, tin foil, clothes iron, digital darkroom). This is essentially a metaphorical extension with the older item standing for anything filling its role. * Transference of a well-known product brand name into a genericized tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bohuslän
Bohuslän (; da, Bohuslen; no, Båhuslen) is a Swedish province in Götaland, on the northernmost part of the country's west coast. It is bordered by Dalsland to the northeast, Västergötland to the southeast, the Skagerrak arm of the North Sea to the west, and the county of Østfold, in Norway, to the north. In English it literally means Bohus County, although it shared counties with the city of Gothenburg prior to the 1998 county merger and thus was not an administrative unit in its own right. Bohuslän is named after the medieval Norwegian castle of Bohus. Under the name Baahuslen, it was a Norwegian county from the Norwegian conquest of the region from the Geats and subsequent unification of the country in the 870s until the Treaty of Roskilde in 1658, when the union of Denmark–Norway was forced to cede this county, as well as Skåneland (part of Denmark proper), to Sweden. , the number of inhabitants was 299,087, giving a population density of . Administration The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of Norway. Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is a dependency of Norway; it also lays claims to the Antarctic territories of Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land. The capital and largest city in Norway is Oslo. Norway has a total area of and had a population of 5,425,270 in January 2022. The country shares a long eastern border with Sweden at a length of . It is bordered by Finland and Russia to the northeast and the Skagerrak strait to the south, on the other side of which are Denmark and the United Kingdom. Norway has an extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea. The maritime influence dominates Norway's climate, with mild lowland temperatures on the se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Treaty Of Roskilde
The Treaty of Roskilde (concluded on 26 February ( OS), or 8 March 1658) ( NS) during the Second Northern War between Frederick III of Denmark–Norway and Karl X Gustav of Sweden in the Danish city of Roskilde. After a devastating defeat, Denmark–Norway was forced to give up a third of its territory to save the rest, the ceded lands comprising Blekinge, Bornholm, Bohuslän (Båhuslen), Scania (Skåne) and Trøndelag, as well as her claims to Halland. After the treaty entered into force, Swedish forces continued to campaign in the remainder of Denmark–Norway, but had to withdraw from the Danish isles and Trøndelag in face of a Danish–Norwegian–Dutch alliance. The Treaty of Copenhagen restored Bornholm to Denmark and Trøndelag to Norway in 1660, while the other provinces transferred in Roskilde remained Swedish. Background As the Northern Wars progressed, Charles X Gustav of Sweden crossed the frozen straits from Jutland and occupied the Danish island of Ze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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