🏛️ Birka and Hovgårda

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Birka, on the island of Björkö in present-day Sweden, was an important Viking Age trading center which handled goods from Scandinavia as well as many parts of Continental Europe and the Orient. Björkö is located in Lake Mälaren, 30 kilometers west of contemporary Stockholm, in the municipality of Ekerö.

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Birka and Hovgårda is a cultural World Heritage site in Sweden, in Europe. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Birka and Hovgårda was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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Hanseatic Town of Visby · Naval Port of Karlskrona · High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago · Skogskyrkogården · Engelsberg Ironworks · Laponian Area · Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland · Varberg Radio Station · Birka and Hovgården · Rock Carvings in Tanum · Church Town of Gammelstad, Luleå · Agricultural Landscape of Southern Öland · Mining Area of the Great Copper Mountain in Falun · Grimeton Radio Station, Varberg · Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland · Royal Domain of Drottningholm.

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