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  Vaxholm Municipality - Definition, explanation
Vaxholm Municipality (Kommun) is a municipality of the Stockholm archipelago in central Sweden.
The somewhat famous village Ytterby is also situated in the municipality.
In Vaxholm lays the fortress of Vaxholm, built between 1836-1863, and perhaps the most notable thing in the municipality.
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/v/va/vaxholm_municipality.php   (173 words)

  
  Vaxholm
Vaxholm is a municipality in central Sweden, in the county of Stockholm.
The municipality covers an area of 57.2 km².
The village of Ytterby is part of the Vaxholm municipality.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/va/Vaxholm.html   (0 words)

  
 KTHNOC's Web Index: Municipalities
Municipality of Flen - In the middle of Sörmland.
Municipality of Gnesta - Gnesta is a young municipality with beautiful meadows in the Sörmland county.
Municipality of Sigtuna - Situated by Lake Mälaren within comfortable commuting distance of both Stockholm to the south and Uppsala to the north.
katalogen.kthnoc.se /cat/government/municipalities   (1457 words)

  
 Vaxholm, Sweden
Details of the municipality with several islands and the two towns located.
Vaxholm Municipality (Kommun) is a municipality of the Stockholm archipelago in central Sweden.
In Vaxholm lays the fortress of Vaxholm, built between 1836-1863, and perhaps the most notable thing in the municipality.
www.creekin.net /c6831-n177-vaxholm-sweden.html   (170 words)

  
 Vaxholm
Vaxholm is a city of the Stockholm archipelago in central Sweden.
It has 4,900 inhabitants and is the seat of Vaxholm Municipality.
In Vaxholm lays the fortress of Vaxholm, built between 1836-1863, and perhaps the most notable thing in the municipality.
www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/va/Vaxholm.htm   (170 words)

  
 CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Today it is the largest municipality of Sweden, with a population of 782,885 (2006), while the populations of the Stockholm urban area and Metropolitan Stockholm are roughly 1.2 and 1.9 million, respectively.
North of Stockholm Municipality: Järfälla, Solna, Täby, Sollentuna, Lidingö, Upplands Väsby, Österåker, Sigtuna, Sundbyberg, Danderyd, Vallentuna, Ekerö, Upplands-Bro and Vaxholm.
Municipalities are responsible for government-mandated duties, and elections for the City Council are held every four years, parallel to the general elections.
encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Stockholm   (3762 words)

  
 Australian Information from Wikipedia
Today it is the largest municipality of Sweden, with a population of 776,000, while the populations of the Stockholm urban area and Metropolitan Stockholm are roughly 1.2 and 1.9 million, respectively.
North of Stockholm Municipality: Järfälla, Solna, Täby, Sollentuna, Lidingö, Upplands Väsby, ×steråker, Sigtuna, Sundbyberg, Danderyd, Vallentuna, Ekerö, Upplands-Bro and Vaxholm.
Municipalities are responsible for government-mandated duties, and elections for the City Council are held every four years, parallel to the general elections.
www.thinkingaustralia.com /thinking_australia/wikipedia/default.php?title=Stockholm   (3853 words)

  
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www.atlasgeo.net /fotw/flags/k-c-34.htm   (639 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Vaxholm Municipality
Vaxholm Municipality is a municipality within Stockholm archipelago in central Sweden.
The municipal slogan is "Vaxholm – the capital of the archipelago", due to its central locatation in the archipelago.
The municipality has a significant amount of tourism.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Vaxholm_Municipality   (160 words)

  
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Together with the municipality’s goal to solve the issue of recirculation of nutrients, a regional project has been carried out with the aim to: — Solve the question of recirculating human urine from households to farmland, using Vaxholm’s specific situation as a starting-point.
Various ways for a municipality to involve itself in a reuse system are described further in the report.
At a later stage (late 2005), the municipality has assumed responsibility of the reuse system, and after extensive communications between the municipality, residents and building contractors, the establishment of a municipal reuse system is now under way.
www.swedenviro.com /verna/documents/SummaryKullonVaxholm.doc   (741 words)

  
 Vaxholm - The Capital of the archipelago   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The town and municipality of Vaxholm cover 112 square kilometres of land and water, spreading across 64 islands.
For a number of years the municipality of Vaxholm has shown the fastest growth in population among all Swedish municipalities and the town keeps growing.
The first writings about the history of Vaxholm date back to the 16th century, when King Gustav Vasa ordered that Vaxholm should be fortified in order to lock the seaway into Stockholm.
www.vaxholm.se /turism/eng/index.asp   (0 words)

  
 19gosweden.ART - The Boston Globe
Vaxholm is often called the ''capital" of the archipelago.
Vaxholm and the nearby islands of Resaro and Tynningo have traditional Midsummer celebrations with the raising of the maypole, dancing, and outdoor parties, all in a gorgeous island setting.
Vaxholm is 21 miles northeast of Stockholm, about 30 minutes by car and an hour by boat.
www.boston.com /travel/articles/2005/06/19/if_you_go_sweden   (410 words)

  
 Vaxholm at AllExperts
Vaxholm is a town in the Stockholm archipelago in central Sweden.
The name Vaxholm comes from the Vaxholm Fortress, which was contructed in 1549 on an islet with this name on the inlet to Stockholm, for defense purposes, by King Gustav Vasa.
The town Vaxholm was established in 1558, when King Gustav Vasa traded to him some farms from Count Per Brahe the elder.
en.allexperts.com /e/v/va/vaxholm.htm   (225 words)

  
 Vaxholm - The Capital of the archipelago
It is considered that Queen Kristina granted Vaxholm its town charter in 1647, although it has not been possible to find the very document.
Thanks to its situation, as Stockholm’s gateway to the archipelago, Vaxholm soon became the centre of fishing industry and boat traffic.
The excellent Vaxholm herring was rowed into Vaxholm by boat and from Vaxholm into Stockholm.
ww2.vaxholm.se /turism/eng/index.asp   (910 words)

  
 Barroso steps into Swedish collective bargaining controversy
However, there is still concern about the outcome of the Vaxholm court case and the extent to which the Services Directive poses a threat to national labour standards.
Karins is also reported to have said that the industrial action taken by the Swedish construction union in Vaxholm was shocking and against the interest of the EU.
The work has not been resumed since then and the municipality of Vaxholm has cancelled the contract.
www.epsu.org /a/1489   (1321 words)

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