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 | | These pillars were formed by the sea eroding away the softer parts of the coastline and leaving only the reef limestone standing. | | | According to Gutasagan, a Norwegian king, on the run from his own peope, came to the island, bringing Christianity. | | | Finally, the German Order State had its turn in invading and ruling the island. |
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http://hem.passagen.se/jwid0498/GOTLAND.HTM
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| | GOTLAND - Online Information article about GOTLAND |
| | Gotland was subject to Sweden before 890, and in 1030 was christianized by St See also: | | | The rights and status of native Gotlanders were not enjoyed by foreigners as a whole-even intermarriage was illegal—but Germans, on See also: | | | But this led to an expedition by the men of See also: |
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http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/GOA_GRA/GOTLAND.html
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| | Horse Breeds |
| | The breed, as we know it, is indigenous to the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea off the Swedish coast. | | | They live on the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea off the Swedish coast in a forest at Lojsta. | | | In the 1800s, Persian and Arab blood were added to the breed with excellent results. |
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http://cowboyfrank.net/fortvalley/breeds/GotlandPony.htm
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| | Gotland (Sweden) |
| | Gotland is an island in the Baltic Sea. | | | Thus arms were created for the island, signalling Sweden's claim to it. | | | As a Hanse city, Visby had a German and also a Gotlandic population. |
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http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/se_gotla.html
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| | Gotland 1361 - Medieval battle in Sweden |
| | The peasantry of Gotland, supported by Estonian knights, were defeated in an encounter in 1288. | | | The Hansa cog was used as trade- and warship in the Baltic Sea | | | Musicians from all over Europe come to Gotland during the event, clowns are jesting and the chief magistrates (from both Sweden and Germany) show their power when thousands of people walk through the city. |
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http://www.bingeby.com/medieval-1361.html
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| | Gotland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The island Gotland is obviously just one island, but the historical province of Gotland also includes adjacent islands, which are often considered part of the Gotlandian culture: | | | Early on Gotland became a commercial center and the town of Visby was the most important Hanseatic city in the Baltic Sea. | | | Gotland is famous for its 92 medieval churches, most of which are restored and in active use. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Gotland
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| | Breeds of Livestock - Gotland Horse |
| | There are few ancient references to the Gotland ponies, but it is generally believed that they lived in freedom in the forests in a half-wild state. | | | The Gotland Pony began to be exhibited at the summer fairs held by the Gotland Agricultural Society, and a few stud-farms were established to breed the horses. | | | There, five Gotland Ponies that had been captured on the moor were let run, together with three other Gotland Ponies that were donated by a stud farm that had gone out of business. |
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http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/horses/gotland
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| | Bicycling on the "Enchanted" Island of Gotland |
| | At that time Gotland was bewitched so that it sank into the sea by day and rose again at night. | | | This is the account of the Guta Saga, a history of Gotland put down in writing in the 13th century. | | | The Viking Age brought Gotland into the center of world trade. |
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http://www.infohub.com/ARTICLES/20000417.html
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| | Guardian Unlimited Travel Countries On Gotland pond |
| | Sixty miles off the Swedish coastline, Gotland appears as a dark smudge against the luminous Baltic Sea. | | | The idea suited them perfectly, as they used the island as a hiding place for their loot, so successfully that 80% of all the Viking treasure hoards so far discovered in Scandinavia have been found here. | | | The island is made entirely of limestone and the soil is not rich enough to support a wide variety of crops, but the coastline is incredibly diverse. |
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http://travel.guardian.co.uk/countries/story/0,7451,1552575,00.html
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| | The Picture Stonefrom Tängelgårda, Gotland |
| | Once this had happened Norsemen could sail speedily over the high seas and the Viking raids could begin. | | | FEW LARGE-SCALE WORKS of art have been preserved from prehistory and from the Iron Age the picture stones on Gotland are among the few examples. |
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http://www.historiska.se/collections/treasures/viking/sten-e.html
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| | Swedish Submarine HMS Gotland Arrives in San Diego |
| | “This is the first time Gotland has been in the Pacific, which is very different from the Baltic Ocean,” Westas said. | | | Jan Westas, commanding officer of Gotland, which was shipped on a container ship from Sweden while the crew traveled separately. | | | Gotland will play a major role in the Navy’s ASW training by being an opposing force (OPFOR) during exercises against carrier and expeditionary strike groups, air patrols and other forces. |
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http://www.news.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=18984
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| | Horses - The Gotland Pony - Horse and Pony Breeds on Equiworld - Equestrian Information on the internet |
| | When inbreeding threatened the Gotland's very existence, new blood, carefully selected, helped revitalize the breed, including a Syrian stallion in 1886 and two Welsh stallions in the early 1950s. | | | In Sweden, on the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea, lives a herd of semi-wild horses, the Gotland Pony or 'Russ', as they are called locally. | | | Each season is marked by an annual Gotland activity: there's releasing the stallion to the herd each June, judging in July, and weaning the foals from the mares in November. |
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http://www.equiworld.net/uk/horsecare/Breeds/gotland
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| | Historic Meeting of Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot Artists in Gotland |
| | During the last week of July (26 July to 1 August) a historic meeting was hold on Gotland, the Swedish Island in the middle of the Baltic Sea. | | | They told about a Greek-Turkish magazine that they had created on the Internet, which the authorities could not stop, "Hade" (meaning "Beginning"). | | | It is also Niki and Neshe that are behind the unique cultural meeting that took place in Visby on Gotland during the last week of July. |
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http://www.klys.se/cyprus
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| | Kievan Rus Database (Gotland) |
| | It has been suggested that the Gotland islanders became rich though piracy, by preying on the merchant ships that plied the Balic Sea routes. | | | Though its position in the middle of the Baltic Sea placed Gotland at the center of trade routes in the later medieval period, there is little suggest that it had far-flung trading connections in the Viking Age. | | | In the Viking Age, the Baltic Island of Gotland was virtually an independent state. |
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http://members.aol.com/bksmyre/Gotland.html
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| | Gotland and Trans Scandianavian Cycle Tour, part 2 |
| | Near Östergarn we passed a rauk-area, and the information board told us that even here Linné had been before us. | | | Turid had read somewhere that sheep is called lamm in Gotlandic language, and she said she couldnot understand why this island had the name Fårö;. | | | Gotland has been a very important location not just in the middle ages, but even in prehistoric age. |
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http://home.online.no/~temelhei/got_2.htm
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| | ancient time mesurements |
| | First you would look at the fullmoon and turn the pendelum that you could pinpoint the moon from the stand. | | | The people at Gotland discovered probably this cycle 1500 year before Methon. | | | The first carving or groove in the bedrock, at least so far, was found at Huggreifs county at the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea for 5292 years ago.That means that we would count the 5292. |
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http://www.vaners.com/enslip.html
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| | Träffpunkt Gotland - Facts about Gotland |
| | Here will you find "Gotland on The Internet" | | | Gotland is the biggest island in The baltic and lies between the Baltic states and Sweden. | | | Over sea came and comes tradespeople, tourists, new cultures and exciting people that selected Gotland to be their new home on The earth. |
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http://www.gotlandia.info/engelska/gotland1-eng.asp
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| | Island Jurisdictions Index--Gotland |
| | Gotland, from the Baltic Sea Seven Island Co-operation Network | | | Gotland, Constitutional Circumstances, by Hans Klintbom, Mayor, Gotlands Kommun, in Jean-Didier Hache (editor), What Status for Europe's Islands? | | | Gotland in Figures, Tables and Diagrams, from the Gotland Kommun (PDF 1,492K) |
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http://www.macmeekin.com/Library/Jurisds/Gotland.htm
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| | Gotland |
| | Gotland became thereafter, after different periods of Danish, Swedish and German rule, finally Swedish in 1679. | | | However since 1965 Gotland has had a population increase almost every year due in large to more people moving in than out. | | | The population of Gotland declined dramatically through migration from the island during the 1940's and 50's. |
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| | Info and facts on 'Gotland' |
| | Gotland is the largest island (A land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water) in the Baltic Sea (A sea in northern Europe; stronghold of the Russian navy). | | | After World War II at Gotland several new methods of electric power transmission were tested. | | | The main city on Gotland is Visby (additional info and facts about Visby), an old hanseatic (additional info and facts about hanseatic) city, sporting a largely intact city wall, as well as many historical buildings. |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/g/go/gotland.htm
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| | Power Engineering International - HVDC Systems Gotland: the HVDC pioneer |
| | This link was the fourth HVDC project to be commissioned on the island. | | | PEi visited this Swedish island to trace the history of the technology, and to find out what the next step in its development will be. | | | Gotland 3 usually works together with Gotland 2 to form a bipolar link but can also work completely independently. |
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http://pepei.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=Curri&Subsection=Display&P=17&ARTICLE_ID=208541&KEYWORD=gotland&x=y
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| | GOTLAND, CONSTITUTIONAL CIRCUMSTANCES |
| | It was against this background that a state commission of inquiry presented a proposal in 1995 to the effect that responsibility for regional development should be transferred from the state-controlled county administrative boards to the county councils, the directly elected bodies in the regions. | | | In the same year some areas, including Gotland, asked the government for permission to start trials in transferring responsibility for regional development to the region’s own politicians. | | | The trial involves Gotland Municipality and three other regions. |
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http://www.eurisles.com/Textes/statut_iles/GotlandEN.htm
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| | Stångaspelen - The Stånga Games |
| | The city of Visby, known for its mediaeval citywall, can be found on the worldheritagelist. | | | The number of inhabitants on Gotland is around 58.000, of which 22.000 live in Visby. | | | This competition was arranged for the first time in 1924. |
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| | Gotlands kommun: Gotland Heritage |
| | Gotland is also host to many international events, including the Hanseatic Days and the Island Games. | | | Important contributions to Gotland's cultural life have also been made by the numerous film-makers, artists, writers, musicians, craftsmen and cultural personalities who have moved to Gotland. | | | Culture and an interest in history both thrive in Gotland, especially in the local history societies and study circles, where the special island dialect and traditions are kept very much alive. |
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http://www.gotland.se/imcms/4329
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| | A Brief History of Gotland |
| | Gotland, initially an independent sovereign entity, fell under German rule in 1398, Danish rule in 1408, Swedish rule in 1645, Danish rule again in 1676, and ended up as part of Sweden in 1679, with a brief 23-day occupation by the Russians in 1808. | | | Interestingly, when Gotland fell under Swedish rule, it did so as the result of peace treaties, whereas other countries' means of obtaining it were generally not peaceful. | | | Facts about Gotland, where much of this history was taken from |
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http://www.photo.net/sweden/gotland/history
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| | Northern Gotland |
| | This used to be a restricted military area, but it has recently opened to the public. | | | Sweden has the most beautiful cows in the world (or so I've claimed on another web site), and that would include the ones in Gotland. | | | This part of Gotland is actually separate from the rest of the island, but you can catch a free ferry to get up there. |
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http://www.photo.net/sweden/gotland/north
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| | HVDC Gotland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The latter made the HVDC Gotland 1 redundant and led to its deactivation and disassembly. | | | This page was last modified 19:48, 22 December 2005. | | | The first HVDC Gotland link (Gotland 1) went into service in 1954. |
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| | Gotland.net - Gotland on the Internet - Travel to Gotland |
| | Biking on Gotland is very easy because the island is flat. | | | Gotland.net - Gotland on the Internet - Travel to Gotland | | | Summertime there are flights to Gotland från Malmö, Gothenburg and Oslo. |
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| | Battlefield Vietnam Mod: Invasion:Gotland - news, files, community - pexsus.com |
| | Three days after the sinking of U-111, CCCP launches their invasion of Gotland. | | | Gotland and the troops which fast mobilize on the island, locally and embarked from the rest of Sweden stands before a strong enemy. | | | NATO threatens to use “all means at hand” against the Warsaw pact if CCCPgoes further west or over another states national border. |
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http://www.battlefield.pexgames.com/games/battlefieldvietnam/mods/invasiongotland/index.html.de
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| | Walking in Sweden |
| | Gotland is a unique island in the Baltic Sea with incredible sights and a rich and fascinating history. | | | There are 92 medieval churches still in use on the island. | | | Embedded in the white limestone or found just under foot is an ancient supply of diverse fossils from the time when Gotland was near the Earth's Equator. |
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http://www.walkinginsweden.com/gotland
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| | "Gotland" Aircraft / AA Cruiser |
| | Unusual for compromise ships she became known as a successful ship. | | | For recovering her aircraft Gotland had a drag sail which was towed at speed against the wind and a heavy-duty crane aft. | | | Gotland was originally projected (in 1926) as a small aircraft carrier of 4.500t with hangar capacity for 12 floatplanes launched by two catapults but with no recovery facilities. |
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| | Gotland families |
| | Several Gotland parish books (contemporary books with parish history) have also been used. | | | The most important on-line sources have been DISBYT, Gotlands genvägar, The 1890 Census and a number of personal web pages. | | | This database contains data on about 166 000 individuals who have lived on Gotland from the late 16th century until today. |
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| | Welcome to Gotland |
| | Gotland is a wonderful country which has an ancient culture and a marvelous nature wholly unigue which seperates it from Sweden and all of Europe for that matter. | | | It is often said to the Swedish tourist that Gotland is another country, another land or something like that. | | | Every year at least a half million people visit Gotland for vacationing, bathing, partying, investigating and even painting in the wonderful light of Gotland. |
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| | Eastern Gotland Basin & Gdansk Basin |
| | The Swedish part of the catchment area is the Gotland Island which is sparsely populated. | | | Fertilizer and pesticide application has been about 40 percent less than in western Europe; in the last two years there has been a substantial decrease in their use because of price increases. | | | The catchment area of the Eastern Gotland Basin is the single largest source of waterborne and airborne municipal, industrial, and agricultural pollution in the Baltic Sea region. |
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http://www.baltic.vtt.fi/demo/east_got
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| | ECO INSIGHT - Sustainable development on Gotland |
| | An historic island whose medieval World Heritage city is encircled by a city wall and where the island’s nearly hundred stone churches were built as early as the 12th century. | | | Gotland – a sustainable community in the middle of the Baltic Sea | | | In the middle of the Baltic Sea lies Sweden& biggest island, Gotland. |
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http://www.ecoinsight.info/eng/om/omeco.html
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| | Gotland |
| | Because of this fantastic wall which still stands almost as it was, Visby has become one of the cities that the UN has marked for preservation. | | | The people of Visby must have been more devoted in the past, or else the town finances have not been good enough to keep up these five churches in a fairly small place. | | | Surrounding it all is the ringwall dating back to the 13th C. when it was built to defend the German traders in the town from the surrounding Gotland peasants whose trading rights were threatened by the town. |
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http://home20.inet.tele.dk/jacobi/Gotland/Gotland.html
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| | All About the Gotland Pony - ExploreNorth |
| | Although they have lived wild on Gotland for thousands of years, Gotland Ponies almost became extinct in tne 1920s following conflict with farmers over destruction of crops and then the meat shortages of World War I. Public attention saved them however, and today there are about 10,000 of them, mostly in Sweden. | | | The Gotland pony is called Russ in it's original home, the island of Gotland, Sweden. | | | In September 1998, a new world record in harness racing for ponies was set by a Gotland pony called Snackan. |
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http://www.explorenorth.com/library/weekly/aa120399.htm
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| | Gotland Runt |
| | I had emailed Gurra from Kiel, expressing my interest in the Volvo Ocean Race. | | | Sailing around the world is something that I wanted to do for a long time but never thought that I would be in a position to do. | | | The breeze was slowly dying as we were sailing a long port tack to a mark outside of Visby, the capital of Gotland. |
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http://www.agneta.org/Sailing/evegot.htm
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| | Hotels in Sweden - Gotland |
| | Gotland, the largest of the Baltic islands, was an important trading post from long before Viking times and became a major power base of the Hanseatic League in the 12th and 13th centuries. | | | Start your trip at Visby, the main port and town of the island, which has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. | | | There are also hundreds — maybe even thousands — of prehistoric sites, including burial mounds, stone ship settings and hill-top fortresses across the island to explore. |
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http://www.hotel-sweden.com/gotland.htm
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| | Practical Information about Gotland |
| | The best source of information for planning is Gotland Travel Web. | | | Although Gotland is known for having milder weather than the rest of Sweden, note that "mild" is only used as a relative term. | | | Visby is extremely crowded during that time, but it would be a complete shame to go there and not experience the most beautiful things like the medieval church ruins and the towers in Visby's surrounding wall. |
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http://www.photo.net/sweden/gotland/practical
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| | Breeds of Livestock - Gute Sheep |
| | Landrace sheep on the island of Gotland in the Baltic sea were little affected by the importation to Sweden of several long tailed foreign breeds during the 18th and 19th century. | | | This selection eventually resulted in the modern Gotland Sheep (sometimes referred to as Swedish Pelt, Swedish Fur or Gotland Pelt). | | | After some years four others, Nils Dahlbeck, Carl Fries, Konrad Hellsing and Arvid Ohlsson also got involved in preserving horned sheep. |
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http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/sheep/gute
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| | Medieval Week Visby. Medeltidsveckan Gotland. |
| | The Medieval Week on Gotland is a medieval history event with thousands of participants. | | | Visby is a walled city with ruins, roses, narrow cobblestone streets, a wide range of cosy restaurants and pubs, markets and the preserved city wall itself: Visby is a former Hanseatic city in Sweden. | | | The Hansa ruled Gotland for hundreds of years during the Medieval Times, today it's a popular destination for tourists. |
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http://www.bingeby.com
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| | Gotland : Driving Tours Frommers.com |
| | Known as the Maiden, this promontory offers some of the best views on Gotland. | | | At the southern tip of Gotland you'll find Hoburgen, with its towering lighthouse. | | | This path leads you to a rock that juts into the water. |
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http://www.frommers.com/destinations/gotland/3247010025.html
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