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Göteborg
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...city (1990 pop. 574,433), capital of Göteborg och Bohus co., SW Sweden, on the Kattegat...shipyards and fisheries in the city. Göteborg has two universities; several academies...the country's largest sports stadiums. Göteborg was founded in 1604 by Charles IX, but...
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Mölndal
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
, city (1990 pop. 52,033), Göteborg och Bohus co., SW Sweden, an industrial suburb of Göteborg.
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Gothenburg
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
see Göteborg , Sweden.
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Göta älv
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Kattegat. It is part of the Göta Canal, a 240-mi (386-km) system of rivers, lakes, and canals, which crosses S Sweden from Göteborg to Arkosund on the Baltic Sea and to Stockholm by way of the sea. The canals, which account for one half of the waterway's...
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Bedřich Smetana
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Prague, where in 1848, with the encouragement of Liszt, he opened a music school. From 1856 to 1860 he was a conductor at Göteborg, Sweden. In 1861 he returned to Prague and took an active role in founding a national opera house. His first patriotic opera...
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Uddevalla
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
, city (1990 pop. 29,790), Göteborg och Bohus co., SW Sweden, a port on the Byfjorden, an arm of the Skagerrak. Manufactures of this industrial center include ships, textiles, furniture, and machinery.
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Kattegat
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Denmark. It is connected with the North Sea through the Skagerrak, which begins at the northern tip of Jutland, and with the Baltic Sea by way of the Øresund, Store Bælt, and Lille Bælt. Göteborg (Sweden) and Århus (Denmark) are the chief ports.
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liquor laws
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...system prevails in most of Canada. Limitation of profits on the manufacture of liquors was begun in Sweden (1865) with the Göteborg licensing system, which restricts both production and consumption of alcoholic beverages. Norway and Finland have variations...
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Scandinavia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...coast in the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. Population is concentrated in the southern part of the peninsula; Stockholm and Göteborg (both in Sweden) and Oslo (Norway) are the largest cities. Except for the Lapps and Finns in the north and east, the Scandinavian...
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Sweden
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Gällivare. Copper, lead, and zinc ores and pyrite are also extracted. The country's chief industrial centers are Stockholm, Göteborg , Malmö , Uppsala, Västerås , Helsingborg , and Norrköping . Food processing is important and the leading manufactures...
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