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Gotland , Swed. Gotlands län, county (1995 pop. 58,240), 1,225 sq mi (3,173 sq km), SE Sweden, in the Baltic Sea. The county comprises the large island of Gotland and several smaller islands, including Fårön, Gotska Sandön, and Karlsö. Visby is the capital. Gotland island is made up of a limestone plateau and has a steep coastline and a few hills. Its climate is temperate, and there is much fertile soil. Cereals, sugar beets, and vegetables are grown, and sheep are raised. Fishing, cement making, and tourism are the main industries. Archaeological remains indicate... Read more

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...trading centre since the Bronze Age , Gotland became part of Sweden in the 9th century. By the 12th century Gotland's traders dominated the routes between...current county capital, Visby, brought Gotland into the Hanseatic League . It was at... Read more

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Gotland, Sweden A county and an island meaning ‘Land of the Goths’. Originating in southern Scandinavia, they migrated to the Black Sea at the end of the 2nd century and later split into two: the Visigoths, Western Goths, and Ostrogoths, Eastern Goths. Read more

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	Go Gotland: Wild geologic formations Viking ruins, and the world's best kajp soup. (Travel & Culture).(Brief Article) ; Drive around Gotland and you might think part of New Zealand...fish are not a hot commodity here. Gotland is about three hours by fast ferry from...relatively isolated from the mainland, Gotlanders have retained a unique culture. They'... Read more
	Holidaying with the Vikings on Gotland ; VISBY, Sweden: The sunny Swedish island of Gotland has long been popular among the locals...into the Middle Ages. "For us Swedes, Gotland is the ultimate of a summer paradise...like being abroad in one's own country." Gotland, situated in the middle of the Baltic... Read more
	A taste of the Med in a land of the herring Is Sweden really home to one of the great medieval cities of Europe? Jeremy Atiyah explores Visby, and gets on his bike to cross the isle of Gotland ; IF GOTLANDERS weren't laid-back Scandinavians you might expect...separatists. Slap bang in the middle of the Baltic Sea, Gotland is scarcely nearer to mother Sweden than to Lithuania. Gotlanders are constantly telling you about their incomprehensible... Read more
	The Viking island: Patricia Cleveland-Peck visits Gotland, the Baltic island where the Viking and medieval pasts are to be found round every corner.(ANOTHER COUNTRY) ; THE BALTIC ISLE OF GOTLAND, forty-five kilometres from Stockholm...ntury's conveniences and comforts. Here on Gotland, for example, the same beer is brewed...developed around the Baltic Sea and the Gotlanders, who had already explored along the... Read more
	Inconobotopora lichenoporoides, a new genus and species of cystoporate bryozoan from the Silurian of Gotland, and its evolutionary implications ; ...bryozoan colony from Mid-Silurian strata on Gotland is described as a new cystoporate, Inconobotopora...paleoecologic investigations of Silurian reefs on Gotland, in the Baltic Sea east of the mainland...through time. Additionally, a poorly known Gotland Silurian species described long ago is... Read more
	Travel: On the Richter scale of urban angst, Gotland scores a neat zero ; ...the middle of the Baltic. It's called Gotland and it is nothing to do with escapism...quite a turn- up for the books because Gotland means "land of the Goths". And you thought...to the death among themselves. And yet Gotland was what the Goths left behind. Over here... Read more
	Martin Rundkvist. A cemetery in Grotlingbo and Fide parishes, Gotland, Sweden, c. AD 1-110: excavations and finds 1826-1971.(Studies of Late Iron Age Gotland )(Book Review) ; ...cemetery in Grotlingbo and Fide parishes, Gotland, Sweden, c. AD 1110: excavations and finds...MARTIN RUNDKVIST. Studies of Late Iron Age Gotland (Barshalder Vol. 2). 101 pages, 17 figures...Late Iron Age cemetery of Barshalder in Gotland, a largely linear cemetery roughly 2 km... Read more
	DISAB Vacuum Technology AB acquires UK-based Gotland Group.(Brief article) ; ...2008-DISAB Vacuum Technology AB acquires UK-based Gotland Group(C)1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http...UK-based industrial vacuum equipment group Gotland Group. The GBP1.5m transaction includes Gotland Ltd and Gotland Systems Ltd. Gotland Group... Read more
	Travel: The land with two faces The Baltic island of Gotland is a borderland. Its meadows separate east from west, nourish both Lutheran and Orthodox, and conceal a bloody history ; ...from Stockholm for the Baltic island of Gotland. But the islanders sitting with their...time toys. Some were bound like us for Gotland's capital, Visby. But others were clearly...Helsinki, or further on to St Petersburg. Gotland was Sweden's sunny south, to be sure... Read more
	Gotland Rederi AB bribery case postponed after suicide.(Brief Article) ; NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT-15 September 2003-Gotland Rederi AB bribery case postponed after...official of the Swedish shipping line Rederi Gotland AB, had admitted accepting bribes for...brought against another employee of Rederi Gotland and two former employees of Rolls-Royce... Read more

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