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Basalorum is a former village in Jörns socken in the north-west part of
Skellefteå Municipality Skellefteå Municipality () is a municipality in Västerbotten County in northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Skellefteå. History Most of the amalgamations leading to the present municipality took place in 1967 when the then "City of Skel ...
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Västerbotten County Västerbotten County (), sometimes called Westrobothnia, is a county or '' län'' in the north of Sweden. It shares the borders with the counties of Västernorrland, Jämtland, and Norrbotten, as well as the Norwegian county of Nordland and the ...
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Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...
. Basalorum was built in the Jörn Parish by the Swedish state. The village was built in 1836 and got its name in the 19th century when a geographical surveyor played with the childish rhyme '' Snipp, snapp, snorum, hej basalorum''. Snipp, Snapp, Snorum and Hej are four other villages in the vicinity.Karl Fahlgren: ''Skellefte sockens historia'' (1953), p. 80. Printed at Almqvist & Wiksells boktryckeri AB Basalorum was the first of these villages to be abandoned. According to the church books, the village was abandoned in 1854 when the first
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with family moved to
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