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Skara

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Västra Götaland County, Sweden
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Skara is a locality and the seat of Skara Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden with 18,580 inhabitants in 2013. Despite its small length, it's miles one of the oldest towns in Sweden, and has an extended academic and ecclesiastical history. One of Sweden's oldest excessive schools, Katedralskolan, is situated in Skara. According to nearby legend, Skara became based in AD 988, making it one of the oldest towns of Sweden.

It turned into considered one of only cities in what was to turn out to be Västergötland, the opposite being Lödöse. Skara turned into the vicinity for the nearby meeting, the Thing of all Geats. With the Christianization of Sweden, round one thousand AD, Skara have become the seat for the bishop and a religious centre for the following centuries. There have been bishops of Skara in an unbroken succession to this present day.Many essential assemblies had been held in Skara in medieval instances. Examples consist of the vital Swedish chancellor meeting in 1326. A assembly of Swedish, Danish and Norwegians in 1458, decided upon the later Kalmar Union.

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