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The history of Stockholm, capital of Sweden, for many centuries coincided with the development of what is today known as Gamla stan, the Stockholm Old Town.
The prehistory of Stockholm is the continuous development and series of events that made the mouth of Lake Mälaren strategically important; a location which by the mid 13th century had become the centre of the newly consolidated Swedish kingdom.
Seal of Stockholm known from an imprint from 1296; most likely the city's first seal mentioned in a letter from 1281. [ 1 ] The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Stockholm , Sweden .
Stockholm has a congestion pricing system, the Stockholm congestion tax, [140] in use on a permanent basis since 1 August 2007, [141] [142] after having had a seven-month trial period in the first half of 2006. [143]
The history of Sweden can be traced back to the melting of the Northern Polar Ice Caps.From as early as 12000 BC, humans have inhabited this area. Throughout the Stone Age, between 8000 BC and 6000 BC, early inhabitants used stone-crafting methods to make tools and weapons for hunting, gathering and fishing as means of survival. [1]
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.
Stockholm in art: Winter scene from Stockholm by Alfred Bergström Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, born in Stockholm in 1833. Art in Stockholm.
The spread of urban development within the City of Stockholm in 1913. The city became its own municipality on 1 January 1863, through the Swedish municipal reforms of 1862, [2] when Sweden's municipal system was introduced and Stockholm got its first city council (stadsfullmäktige). Royal Djurgården was incorporated from Danderyds skeppslag ...