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 Visby on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Visby's decline began in 1280, when Sweden conquered Gotland while the city was suffering civil strife.
Visby passed to Denmark in 1570, and again came under Sweden in 1645.
Flextronics International AB acquires Ericsson's Visby, Sweden facility.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/V/Visby.asp   (361 words)

  
 VISBY - LoveToKnow Article on VISBY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The name Visby is derived from the old Norse ve (sanctuary) and by (town).
This was no doubt a place of religious sacrifice in heathen times.
The general form of the shrine is Gothic,1 but the details are those of the 16th-century Italian Renaissance treated
www.1911ency.org /V/VI/VISBY.htm   (974 words)

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