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	Gotland
		Gotland, or Gothlandia, is the largest island, and a historical province or landskap, of Sweden.
		Early on Gotland became a commerical center and the town of Visby was a member of the Hanseatic league.
		Gotland was granted its arms in 1560, even though the island was at the time occupied by Danish forces.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/go/Gotland.html (288 words)

	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Gotland
		Early on Gotland became a commercial center and the town of Visby was the most important Hanseatic city in the Baltic Sea.
		Gotland was granted its arms in about 1560, even though the island was at the time occupied by Danish forces.
		The Gotlandic flag with the Gotlandic national coat of arms, white on red ground, known from the 13th century in the shape of the seal of the Gotlandic Republic with the proud ram.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Gotland (1166 words)

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		Gotland is situated in the middle of the Baltic Sea, 90 kilometres from the Swedish mainland and 130 kilometres from the Estonian mainland.
		Gotland is the land of contrasts: the vivid activity of a modern town in the middle of an ancient setting.
		Gotland is the largest island of Sweden and is one of its smallest provinces.
	hem.passagen.se /jwid0498/GOTLAND.HTM (2771 words)

	Gotland - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gotland island is made up of a limestone plateau and has a steep coastline and a few hills.
		Gotland prospered as a major trade center of N Europe, but internal strife between the Hanse merchants and local tradesmen weakened the county.
		Gotland was conquered by the Swedish king, Magnus I (Magnus Ladulas) in 1280, and later was taken by Waldemar IV of Denmark in 1361 and by the Hanseatic League in 1370.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-gotland.html (411 words)

	Chernyakhov culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gotland is dark pink and the traditional extent of Götaland is in green.
		The archaeological record shows that the population of the Wielbark culture had settled in the area and mixed with the previous populations of the Zarubintsy culture.
		This cultural movement is widely accepted as the migration of the Goths from Gothiscandza to Oium, under the leadership of Filimer, of which the Goth scholar Jordanes wrote in the sixth century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chernyakhov_culture (379 words)

	Gotland
		The population of Gotland declined dramatically through migration from the island during the 1940's and 50's.
		Gotland's insular position promotes strong local ties and loyalty to Gotlandish traditions, history and culture among its inhabitants, natives as well as newcomers, giving rise to a very strong regional identity and a firm resolve to remain on the island.
		Gotland encompasses many kinds of nature, from thick virgin forests and open barren alvar areas, over steep cliff coastlines and soft sandy beaches, to fertile farming communities and mighty "rauk", stone sea-stacks.
	b7.elkdata.ee /gotland.html (603 words)

	Gotland.net - Gotland on the Internet - Conference and Congress on Gotland
		Gotland is a meeting-place in the middle of the dynamic Baltic Sea Region.
		Gotland is one of Sweden’s most famous and desirable destinations, but still somewhat of a hidden treasure internationally.
		Gotland's infrastructure handles a large number of visitors every year and there is a smoothly functioning network that takes care of transportation, transfers, accommodation, restaurants and exciting activities.
	www.gotlandweb.com /english/conference-congress.asp (268 words)

	Gotland Time line
		Gotland is the center in the Baltic culture.
		Gotland is an older state than Sweden and it was a kind of republic ruled by the Gutatinget witch is one of the oldest parliaments in the world.
		After that Gotland is Danish but in a way self ruling until 1618 when an illegal decree, the republic of Gotland is abolished.
	www.algonet.se /~tobbe_n/timeline.htm (842 words)

	Bicycling on the "Enchanted" Island of Gotland
		Gotland is 75 miles long by 35 miles at its widest part and is almost entirely flat.
		Gotland is the land of limestone and one of the most fossil rich places in the world.
		The lime gravelled roads, adorned with wildflowers, gleam in the sunshine and the light is as intense as in the Mediterranean region.
	www.infohub.com /Articles/20000417.html (608 words)

	Gotland Convention Bureau
		Gotland has been part of Sweden since 1645 and has been part of a regional self-government trial since 1997.
		The closeness of everything on Gotland means short decision paths between public and private organisations.
		Gotland also boasts a broad range of culture and a hospitable local population.
	www.gotlandconvention.se /eng/gotland01.php (232 words)

	Gotland Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the 13th Century there was a writing published that contained the laws of the island, it was called "The Gotlandic law" (Guta lagh), and this work was also written in the ancient language Gutnish.
		Gotland is famous for its 92 medieval churches, most of which are restored and in active use.
		Gotlanders of the Viking Era are depicted as city people, more sophisticated and cosmopolitan than other Scandinavians of their time, and proud of their knowlege and skills.
	www.higiena-system.com /wiki/link-Gotland (1013 words)

	Retrospect and Conclusions.
		The generally prevailing opinion at present is that the culture is postglacial and arctic and that the oldest finds belong to an early period of the melting of the inland ice after the ice had receded from the coast but still covered the entire country within the fjords.
		According to Forssander (1936) the Bell Beaker culture falls on Middle European ground in the second half of the passage-grave time and the Bigum find in Jutland is from the time between the oldest part of the North European Battle-axe culture and the beginning of the stone cist time.
		The more frequent occurrence of brachycranial forms in Denmark, Skåne and Gotland than in the more peripheral parts of Sweden could, in his opinion, be explained on the assumption that the Megalithic people, during their immigration to Scandinavia, encountered a denser original population in the first mentioned parts of Sweden and in Denmark.
	www.snpa.nordish.net /CNIITheStoneAge.htm (15517 words)

	Gotlands kommun: Novgorod
		Gotland's County museum exposed an exhibition from the Historical museum in Novgorod with medieval objects from Novgorod and Starja Ladoga.
		Municipality of Gotland co-ordinated the network Hanseatic leagues actions to Renovate the Cathedral of S:t Nicolaus in Novgorod.
		In conjunction to the festivities a cultural delegation from Gotland participated.
	www.gotland.se /imcms/4583 (275 words)

	Language
		The ancient language is called Forngutniska (Old Gotlandic), which among linguists is considered to be a separate language.
		Ordbok över Laumålet på Gotland is bsed on the language spoken on the southeastern part of Gotland and was completed during the 1970ies and 80ies.
		It is also of great value for etnographic, etnologic, history and studies of culture and Gotland in past times.
	home.swipnet.se /gutniska/language.htm (438 words)

	history of a people, from north to south
		The Cultural Co-operation Council elected the theme of the Vikings in 1992, paralleling the 22
		It involved the Museum of Normandy of Caen in France and the Association "Euro Mediterraneo Culture Dei Mari" in Italy.
		This paradox of cultural containment and tourist confidentiality rests mainly on the cleavage between the West and the East, from which this part of Europe had suffered for forty years.
	www.culture-routes.lu /php/fo_index.php?lng=en&dest=bd_pa_det&rub=46 (710 words)

	UBC - Commissions / Commission on Culture
		The aim of the Commission is to stimulate and coordinate culture and art projects, events and co-operation especially among UBC members to foster contacts and develop joint cultural projects.
		Cultural collaboration due to the networks of contacts is a perfect tool for enlivening of mutual understanding, knowledge of history and the cultural background of the Baltic.
		The exhibition presented the important phenomenon in the visual arts of the 90-ties and was accompanied by the course of seminars discussing the role and function of art in the end of the 20th century.
	www.ubc.net /commissions/culture.html (1438 words)

	Gotland Convention Bureau
		In 1361 the island was conquered by Denmark’s King Valdemar Atterdag and Gotland became a Danish province.
		Under the Treaty of Brömsebro in 1645 Gotland was returned to Sweden, and it was not until the second half of the 18th century that prosperity truly returned to the island.
		By the early 20th century industrialisation had reached Gotland and, due to depictions of the island by artists, poets and authors during the Romantic period, the island became one of Sweden’s first major destinations for beach and culture tourism.
	www.gotlandconvention.se /eng/gotland02.php (509 words)

	a commercial league
		The route, elected by the Council of Cultural Co-operation in 1992, was initially presented at the castle of Kronborg in Helsingor, Denmark in 1991, then in Bergen, Norway in 1992 and Visby, Sweden in 1993.
		The purpose of this route was to make the history and cultural heritage of the northern countries as vivid as the spirit of southern European civilisations, symbolised for the Scandinavians by Mediterranean cultures and civilisations.
		In 1998, during the Visby summit in Gotland a "Hanse of youth" embodied the will of this association of cities to gain the interest of young people between 16 and 25 in co-operating around the Baltic.
	www.culture-routes.lu /php/fo_index.php?lng=en&dest=bd_pa_det&rub=47 (398 words)

	zero-game studio business
		Gotland University College is located on the waterfront in the World Heritage City of Visby - a unique meeting place where the medieval meets modern information technology.
		The Gotland municipality is working actively to support the vision of Gotland as a centre of excellence in game development.
		Future Physical is a cultural programme exploring the changing boundaries between the virtual and the physical.
	www.tii.se /zerogame/partners.htm (441 words)

	Gotland
		Gotland is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		The Gutasaga relates of the blóts on the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea: Firi þan tima oc lengi eptir siþan.
		The city of Visby and rest of the island was governed separately and a civil war caused by conflicts between the German merchants in Visby and the trading peasants on the countryside...
	www.experiencefestival.com /gotland (904 words)

	Cooperation.html
		(Gotland University, The Gotland Centre of Baltic Studies) The fundamental idea behind the project Viking Plus was to coordinate different activities on the Viking theme and combine them as a whole, this to jointly work for a development and an efficient marketing of the concept Gotland Viking Island.
		In the summer of 2001 a working team was formed with the purpose to bring forward culture heritage from the Viking Age and to strengthen the regional profile.
		uro Mediterraneo Culture dei Mari is an association of towns, departments, regions and committees of many countries around the Mediterranean, with the aim of promoting culture and cultural heritage in the Mediterranean area.
	viking.hgo.se /Members/Cooperation.html (739 words)

	Culture Did You Mean culture? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		There resulted a belief in cultural relativism; the belief that one had to understand an individual's actions in terms of his or her culture; that one had to understand a specific cultural artifact (a ritual, for example) in terms of the larger symbolic system of which it forms a part.
		Modern cultural theory also considers the possibility that (a) culture itself is a product of stabilization tendencies inherent in evolutionary pressures toward self-similarity and self-cognition of societies as wholes, or tribalisms.
		Cultural studies developed in the late 20th century, in part through the re-introduction of Marxist thought into sociology, and in part through the articulation of sociology and other academic disciplines such as literary criticism.
	www.did-you-mean.com /Culture.html (3078 words)

	Student Exchange - TWU Study Abroad Program - Take part in a foreign exchange program with Two Worlds United
		Variety in cultures, educational activities, festivals and traditions are an outstanding feature of the TWU Study Destinations.
		Italy is truly one of the cradles of Western civilization, with one of the longest histories and richest cultures in Europe.
		From the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to Mexico, the United States of America is a vast, sprawling kaleidoscope of a country, with an enormous diversity of cultures, geography, ethnic groups, and languages.
	www.campustravel.org (917 words)

	The Royal University of the Midrealm (RUM) - Next RUM
		Co-ordinator at the County Administration of Gotland of a 4 year and a 13 million SEK project dealing with natural and historical heritage tourism on Gotland, with the aim to open up areas of interesting nature and historical monuments for a broad public.
		Engaged by the Ministry of Culture in Sweden and the Council of Europe to be the co-ordinator of the project Viking Routes, as a part of the Council of Europe Cultural Routes program.
		Collaboration with The European Institute for Cultural Routes in Luxembourg, Musée de Normandy at Caen, France, and Culture Dei Mare in Italy, in the creation of a Norman -Viking Cultural Route, and the making of an exhibition of Viking History at the museum in Capua, Italy, displayed in December 1999.
	www.midrealm.org /rum/spring39/guest.html (783 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Gotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		20,990), capital of Gotland co., SE Sweden, on Gotland Island and on the Baltic Sea.
		It is an industrial center and a popular resort and has a modern ice-free port.
		Fårön FÅRÖN [Fårön], island, 40 sq mi (104 sq km), Gotland co., E Sweden, separated from Gotland Island by the Fårösund, an arm of the Baltic Sea.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Gotland (561 words)

	Discovering the Viking Past
		In Sweden the medieval island of The Gotland is celebrating 2005 as the Year of the Viking on Gotland.
		The Gotlandic Allting, highest political, legal and religious authority on Gotland is revived a thousand years later.
		During the Viking Era, for several hundred years, Gotland and the capital city Visby, became the trade center in the Baltic Sea, visited by Vikings, kings and nobility for centuries.
	www.theculturedtraveler.com /Archives/Jul2005/Viking_Past.htm (1799 words)

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		The churches are close on Gotland, we passed four in the fifty kilometres crossing the island and saw some at a distance too.
		She told us that 45% of the area of Gotland is covered by forests, and we could confirm that during our days on this bus tour.
		This most southern part of Gotland consists of gray sandstone, a material which is very useable for grindstones and then we can recognize it in lots of churches.
	biphome.spray.se /mon25/gotl2-eng.htm (1872 words)

	Träffpunkt Gotland - Cultue/Pleasesure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		For you that like culture Gotland and Visby is a gold mine where you can fetch insperation.
		On Gotland the culture that goes like a red thread through the spirit of the people of Gotland.
		Visby became in 1995 a world legacy city, which means that the people on Gotland has got a assignment to preserve the city for the next generation.
	www.gotlandia.info /engelska/kultur-noje-int-eng.asp (432 words)

	Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Of the Board's six members, two are nominated by the Swedish Writers' Union, two by the County Administration of Gotland, of whom one represents the Gotland University College, one the Municipality of Gotland.
		Thanks to the specific funding from the EU progarmme Culture 2000 and the Swedish Institute 49 writers and translators from 15 European countries could be granted a bursary meant to cover their travel and /or living expenses.
		The Gotland branch of the Nordic Union requested a collaboration and the union’s committee meetings and annual general meeting were held at the centre.
	www.bcwt.org /servlet/GetDoc?meta_id=1815 (4938 words)

	Nordic Culture > Scandinavia by Ferry - Scandinavica.com
		Only here you will find more than a dozen historical cities packed with fascinating architecture and rich cultural life, and the Nordic scenery, from the Norwegian fjords in winter to the Finnish islands in summer, is simply breathtaking.
		The popular islands of Gotland and Bornholm are favourite summer destinations for many Swedes and Danes, as well as the regular ferries to Copenhagen, Oslo and northern Germany.
		The Baltic countries are joining the list of popular cruise destinations in northern Europe: more than six million people cruise every year to Tallinn, most of them using Helsinki as base to visit the medieval capital city.
	www.scandinavica.com /culture/travel/ferry.htm (1449 words)

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