Gammalstorp

Gammalstorp, Sölvesborg is a minor

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Sölvesborg Sölvesborg is a locality and the seat of Sölvesborg Municipality in Blekinge County, Sweden with 10,024 inhabitants in 2013. Sölvesborg is, despite its small population, for historical reasons normally still referred to as a ''city''. Statis ...

municipality,

Blekinge Blekinge () is one of the traditional Swedish provinces (), situated in the southern coast of the geographic region of Götaland, in southern Sweden. It borders Småland, Scania and the Baltic Sea. It is the country's second-smallest provin ...

, Sweden. Between 1863 and 1970, Gammalstorp was a municipality. In contrast to other municipalities of the time (e.g.

Mjällby Mjällby is a urban areas of Sweden, locality situated in Sölvesborg Municipality, Blekinge County, Sweden with 1,254 inhabitants in 2010. It is located on the Listerlandet peninsula. The town has traditionally lived of fishing. The nearby har ...

), Gammalstorp did not have a particular administrative centre. Instead, the functions were divided between the villages of

Norje Norje is a locality situated in Sölvesborg Municipality, Blekinge County, Sweden with 657 inhabitants in 2010. Since 1998, Norje has been the location of the Sweden Rock Festival Sweden Rock Festival is a rock festival outside the town of S ...

and Gammalstorp. The village has grown up close to the church, which was originally located on an island, in the former

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Vesan Vesan is a former lake in Sölvesborg, Blekinge County, Sweden. Originally Vesan was a strait. In the area between Ryssberget Ryssberget is a hill in the municipality of Sölvesborg, in the southeastern Swedish province of Blekinge. Ryssberget i ...

. Until the 1950s, the municipality had a number of

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{{Blekinge-geo-stub Populated places in Sölvesborg Municipality