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In 1477 Uppsala University was founded through a papal bull as the first university in northern Europe. [4] Vasa era (1520–1702) ... took place in Uppsala. It was ...
Uppsala (/ ʌ p ˈ s ɑː l ə / up-SAH-lə, Swedish pronunciation: [ˈɵ̂pːˌsɑːla] ⓘ; archaically spelled Upsala) is the capital of Uppsala County and the fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö.
Gamla Uppsala, the centre of worship in Sweden until the temple was destroyed in the late 11th century.. Rudolf Simek says that, regarding Adam of Bremen's account of the temple, "Adam's sources for this information are of extremely varying reliability, but the existence of a temple at Uppsala is undisputed."
1654 – Queen Christina of Sweden announces her abdication in Uppsala. 1663 – The student nations of Uppsala are legalized by the Konsistorium of the university. 1669 – The Codex Argentus is donated to Uppsala university. 1675 – The parliament of 1675 is held in Uppsala. 1702 – Most of Uppsala is destroyed in a comprehensive city fire. [1]
Gamla Uppsala (Swedish: [ˈɡâmːla ˈɵ̂pːˌsɑːla], Old Uppsala) is a parish and a village outside Uppsala in Sweden. It had 17,973 inhabitants in 2016. [1] As early as the 3rd century AD and the 4th century AD and onwards, it was an important religious, economic and political centre. [2]
The House of Munsö (Swedish: Munsöätten), also called the House of Björn Ironside (Swedish: Björn Järnsidas ätt), the House of Uppsala (Swedish: Uppsalaätten) or simply the Old dynasty (Swedish: Gamla kungaätten), is the earliest reliably attested royal dynasty of Sweden, ruling during the Viking Age.
Uppsala Synod; Y. Yngvi This page was last edited on 24 December 2015, at 17:39 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Nearby Gamla Uppsala was an important religious and aristocratic center from at least the 5th century up until 1273 (when the Catholic archbishopric was moved to the area that became modern-day Uppsala). It had been at the end of the 5th century that the Yngling dynasty is known to have established themselves in Gamla Uppsala. Today, large ...