Varnamo

Varnamo is a locality and the seat of Varnamo Municipality, Jonkoping County, Sweden, with 18,696 population in 2010. Värnamo strains its records again to a village within the medieval age; the primary written mention of it stems from the 13th century. It came into existence as a village to the japanese facet of a fordable location over the Lagan, a river that for big components is hard to journey by means of.

As there also are smaller streams to the south and west of this location, it become taken into consideration something of a guard, main to its call being amalgamated from the two Swedish words värn, which means protect, and mo which is a geographical vicinity reference describing the type of land on which the metropolis is situated. The phrase mo certainly approach that the soil consists of excellent sand, occasionally making the land surrounding the river bog or barren. Varnamo came to be the centre of Ostbo Harad, an archaic shape of judicial district, and thus a seat of alternate and trade. When Varnamo became a koping in 1659 it became given formal rights to host markets, falling underneath the jurisdiction of the metropolis of Jonkoping.