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This is a list of student nations at Uppsala University in Sweden.The tradition of nations at the university is practically as old as the university itself. The list is always sorted in accordance with a time-honoured order based on the age of the diocese of the area that the nation was named after.
Dookers (named after guillemot and razorbill, sea-birds once a popular food among Tarbert natives) Taunton T-Towners, Tants, Peacocks (from the football club) Piss-cocks (pejorative) Teignmouth Muffians Telford Telfies, Tel-chavs, Overspills (pejorative), Skelly-tels, Teletubbies Tetbury Tits Thame Tame Rats Thirsk Thir-skis Tideswell Tidsas ...
Reconstruction of Old Uppsala, the center of the proto-historic Swedish petty kingdom which gave rise to the medieval Swedish kingdom. The earliest historically attested Swedish rulers are 9th-century petty kings from the Vita Ansgarii, an account written c. 870 by Rimbert partly concerning Saint Ansgar's visit to Svealand.
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.
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]
River Fyris from Nybron, Uppsala (August 2022) The Fyris river in winter (February 2010) as seen from Islandsbron, the bridge which marks the point to where the river is navigable Fyrisån ( Swedish pronunciation: [ˈfŷːrɪsˌoːn] , "the Fyris river") is a river in the Swedish province of Uppland , which passes through the city of Uppsala ...
Due to isostasy the shoreline had moved down from Gamla Uppsala, and in the 6th century the Fyris River was not navigable by sail north of Kvarnfallet in the current city of Uppsala. At this site the modern city of Uppsala was founded as a port city to Gamla Uppsala, under the name of Aros. In the first centuries of the second millennium the ...
The larger Sunday crossword, which appears in The New York Times Magazine, is an icon in American culture; it is typically intended to be a "Wednesday or Thursday" in difficulty. [7] The standard daily crossword is 15 by 15 squares, while the Sunday crossword measures 21 by 21 squares.