Komstad is a village in the former

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, Sweden, suited about west of

Sävsjö Sävsjö is a locality and the seat of Sävsjö Municipality, Jönköping County, Sweden with 5,122 inhabitants in 2010. Geography Sävsjö is located on the main line railway between Stockholm and Malmö. The distance to Malmö is about 220 ...

town. It is an old village, mentioned in historical records as early as 1370. Recent research tries to document that

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(), who gave name to

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, United States, was born in Komstad. Komstad was previously the location for the parish's

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and was the main village in

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(western part of Njudung). But when the railroad was constructed in the 1860s, nearby Sävsjö became the new main town in the region.

External links

* Site in connection with Komstad and its region
Baltic lodge No.689, Vasa order of America

References

Populated places in Jönköping County {{Jönköping-geo-stub