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| [image] | City arms [image] | |
| 55° 42´ N 13° 12´ E | ||
| Charter | City (990) | |
| Municipality | Lund Municipality | |
| County | Skåne County | |
| Province | Skåne | |
| Population | 74,000 | |
Lund ▶(?) [lʊnː] is a Scanian city in the Skåne province of southernmost Sweden. The city is held to have be founded around 990, when the Scanian lands belonged to Denmark. It soon became the Christian center with an archbishop and with the towering Lund Cathedral (right), built in 1103.
The city has today around 74,000 inhabitants not counting all temporary students. The Lund Municipality with 101,000 inhabitants includes several surrounding small towns and villages, particularly to the east. The municipality includes Dalby and the adjacent Dalby Söderskog national park.
The city was made see in 1060, and in 1103 made the site of the Archbishop for Scandinavia. The Lund Cathedral was similarly founded in or shortly after 1103. In 1152, the Norwegian archdiocese of Nidaros was founded as a separate province of the church, independent of Lund. In 1264 Sweden also got an archbishop of its own, although nominally subordinate to the archbishop of Lund.
[image] Lund Cathedral School (Katedralskolan) was founded in 1085 by the Danish king Canute the Saint. This is the oldest school in Scandinavia and one of the oldest in Northern Europe. The school is also one of the most prestigeous schools in Sweden, and many well-known people have attended it, among those actor Max von Sydow and several high ranking politicians.
In 1658, all Scanian counties were ceded by Denmark to Sweden by the Treaty of Roskilde. On December 4 in 1676 it was defended at the Battle of Lund, one of the bloodiest battles fought in Scandinavia. Lund University, established in 1668 as a means of Swedification, is Sweden's largest with 41,000 students, though not all students actually live in Lund.
Lund is located in Sweden's largest agricultural district, less than 10km from the sandy shore of the Öresund Straits and about 16km from Malmö. From the top of the hill Sankt Hans Backar it is possible to spot Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. In the eastern part of the Lund municipality there is forest, mainly decidious.