Lund

Lund is a town within the southern Swedish province of Scania, across the Øresund from Copenhagen. The town had 91,940 inhabitants out of a municipal general of 121,510 as of 2018. It is the seat of Lund Municipality, Skåne County. Archeologists date the inspiration of Lund to around 990, when Scania was part of Denmark. From 1103 it was the seat of the Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lund, and the towering Lund Cathedral, constructed circa 1090 to 1145, nonetheless stands on the centre of the city.

Denmark ceded the town to Sweden inside the Treaty of Roskilde in 1658, and its popularity as a part of Sweden was formalised in 1720.Lund is every now and then stated because the oldest town or city in gift-day Sweden, even though it has most effective been formally been established as such for three hundred years of its at the least thousand-yr records. It is old sufficient that its origins are uncertain, however is presumed to have existed by using the quit of the Viking Age. Until the 1980s, the metropolis was concept to were founded around 1020 through either Sweyn I Forkbeard or his son Canute the Great of Denmark.