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Stockholm during the Middle Ages is the period in the history of Stockholm stretching from the foundation of the city c. 1250 to the end of the Kalmar Union in 1523. During this period, Stockholm still didn't fill up the small island Stadsholmen (the "city islet") which today known as the Stockholm Old Town (Gamla stan), and as a consequence this article to some extent overlaps that of Gamla stan.
The town has 17th- and 18th-century stone buildings, older timber-framed buildings and five medieval parish churches. [5] It is a frequent film location. In 2013 it was rated a top place to live in a survey by The Sunday Times. [6] Its name has been passed on to Stamford, Connecticut, founded in 1641. [7]
This list includes European countries and regions that were part of the Roman Empire, or that were given Latin place names in historical references.As a large portion of the latter were only created during the Middle Ages, often based on scholarly etiology, this is not to be confused with a list of the actual names modern regions and settlements bore during the classical era.
It was a very ambitious project that caused the centre of the city to gradually move out of the medieval city. [30] The colourful and often burlesque descriptions of Stockholm by troubadour and composer Carl Michael Bellman are still popular. The period ended as King Gustav IV Adolf was deposed in 1809 in a coup d'état. The loss of Finland ...
The former name of the town literally means "Saturday in Spiš" and it is derived from a day of week in which the town was granted a right to organize a market. Town privileges or borough rights were important features of European towns during most of the second millennium.
Little is known about how Romans adapted foreign place names to Latin form, but there is evidence of the practices of Bible translators.They reworked some names into Latin or Greek shapes; in one version, Yerushalem (tentative reconstruction of a more ancient Hebrew version of the name) becomes Hierosolyma, doubtlessly influenced by Greek ἱερος (hieros), "holy".
High Street was at the centre of Viking Dublin and Medieval Dublin (9th–13th centuries); Christ Church Cathedral is located immediately on its northeast end. It is south of the Viking settlement site at Wood Quay and east of Dublin Castle ; it was the main street in the medieval period.