Kalmar

Kalmar is a city in the southeast of Sweden, situated by the Baltic Sea. It had 36,392 inhabitants in 2010 and is the seat of Kalmar Municipality. It is also the capital of Kalmar County, which comprises 12 municipalities with a total of 236,399 inhabitants 2015. From the 13th to the 17th century, Kalmar was one of Sweden's most significant urban areas. Somewhere in the range of 1602 and 1913, it was the episcopal see of Kalmar Diocese, with a priest, and the Kalmar Cathedral from 1702 is as yet a fine case of classicistic engineering.

It turned into an invigorated city, with the Kalmar Castle as the middle. After the Treaty of Roskilde in 1658, Kalmar's significance decreased, until the business division was started in the 19th century. Kalmar is nearby the principle course to the island of Oland over the Oland Bridge. The zone around Kalmar has been occupied since antiquated occasions. Unearthings have discovered hints of stone age gravefields. In any case, the most established proof for there being a town is from the 11th century. As indicated by a medieval people story, the Norwegian lord Saint Olav had his boats moved to Kalmar.