Slite is a

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situated in

Gotland Municipality Region Gotland, legally Gotlands kommun ('), is a municipality with regional responsibilities that covers the entire island of Gotland in Sweden. The city of Visby is the municipality's seat. Gotland Municipality is the 39th most populous municip ...

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, on the island of

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, Sweden with 1,500 inhabitants in 2014.

Geography

Slite is situated on the northern east coast of Gotland. The town is divided by the Sjuströmmar inlet, connecting Bogevik bay with the

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. The north, and main part, of the town is situated in Othem

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and the part south of Sjuströmmar is in Boge socken. Outside Slite is a small

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called Slite skärgård. The largest island is Asunden with its

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area. Close to the south tip of Asunden is the smaller Grunnet island. The island closest to Sjuströmmar is Enholmen where

Karlsvärd Fortress Karlsvärd Fortress () is a former fortification on the island of Enholmen near Slite on Gotland, Sweden. In its place Enholmen Fortress () was built in the mid-1800s. It was decommissioned in 1905 and was then used as a training ground for the c ...

is situated. High on a cliff in the north part of Slite is the modern

Slite Church Slite Church is a church in Slite, on the island of Gotland in Sweden. The church was designed by the Danish architect Holger Jensen and built 1959–1960. It is built using only local materials such a pine wood and limestone. The rood A ro ...

built in 1959–60. It is designed by Danish architect Holger Jensen. , Slite Church belongs to Othem-Boge

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in Norra Gotlands

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, along with the churches in Othem and Boge.

History

For a long time Slite was an important place for trade and business; nowadays tourism is an important source of income along with the stone and gravel industry, producing concrete from raw material of

limestone Limestone is a type of carbonate rock, carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material Lime (material), lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different Polymorphism (materials science) ...

from nearby

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. The landscape outside Slite is dominated by the

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Cement Sverige AB limestone quarr

In 1902–1953, Slite was connected to Roma, Gotland, Roma by the Slite-Roma railway.

Events

The annual Slite Market is the first of the major autumn markets on Gotland. There are five official markets held on the island in August–October: Slite,

Havdhem Havdhem () is a locality situated on the Swedish island of Gotland with 300 inhabitants in 2014. Havdhem is also the name of the larger populated area, socken (not to be confused with parish). It comprises the same area as the administrative Havd ...

Kräklingbo Kräklingbo () is a populated area, a ''socken'' (not to be confused with parish), on the Swedish island of Gotland. It comprises the same area as the administrative Kräklingbo District, established on 1January 2016. The most visible feature at ...

Klintehamn Klintehamn () is a locality in Klinte on the Swedish island of Gotland with 1,350 inhabitants in 2010. Transportation Klintehamn is a shipping port on the west coast of Gotland where timber and agricultural products are shipped to mainland Swe ...

and

Hemse Hemse is a locality situated on the Swedish island of Gotland with 1,700 inhabitants in 2014. It is the second largest locality (after Visby) on the island. Hemse is the main center of population in the southern part of the island, and it is know ...

, each usually spanning a weekend.

References

External links

* {{Authority control Populated places in Gotland County Port cities and towns of the Baltic Sea