The Klågerup riots (

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: ''Klågerupskravallerna'') is the name for a series of Swedish

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s which took place in

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in Sweden in the summer of 1811. That year a series of rebellions took place in Scania, caused by discontent about, among other things, the draft for military service. This led to demonstrations by civilian armies of peasantry, who demanded negotiations with the authorities. The rebels also attacked and plundered some estates belonging to the nobility. The name

Klågerup Klågerup is a locality situated in Svedala Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 1,904 inhabitants in 2010. It is located next to road 108. This was the scene of the Klågerup Riots of 1811. Society In Klågerup there is a school, two kind ...

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s are given to the events from the end of the affair: the last forces of the rebel army, gathered at

, refused to surrender and was attacked by the military on 15 June 1811, leading to some 30 dead from gunshots at once (23 of them died in Klågerup), and several more who later died from infected wounds.Uno Röndahl "333-årsboken" Swedish , p66-75. Hundreds were brought in chains to

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, which partly served as a prison.

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* Birger Persson: Bondeupproret i Skåne: Ett 150-årsminne. Särtryck ur Ystads Allehanda, 20/5, 27/5, 3/6 1961. * Gösta Johannesson: Skånes historia. Signum 1977. * K Arne Blom och Jan Moen: Slagfält i Skåneland. Liber 1986. * Gert-Ove Pettersson & Sven Rosborn m.fl.: 1811. Bondeupproret i Skåne. Malmö 1991. * Mats Olsson, Sten Skansjö och Kerstin Sundberg: Gods och bönder från högmedeltid till nutid: kontinuitet genom omvandling på Vittskövle och andra skånska gods. Nordic Academic Press 2006, . * Alf Åberg: Skånes historia i fickformat.

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1997, . {{DEFAULTSORT:Klagerupskravallerna Conflicts in 1811 1811 in Sweden Peasant revolts in Europe Rebellions in Sweden 19th-century rebellions 19th century in Malmöhus County

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