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Borgholm is an urban and former city and the center of the Island Öland. • • Borgholm is a popular tourist destination, and its population increases dramatically during the summer months. • • In Köpingsvik low during the Viking era a marketplace with ancestry from the 700s. Kalmar is here about 10 km wide and has for centuries been the fairway up in the Baltic Sea. You could soon see when the enemy is approaching, so here was built in various fortification works. Borgholms castle just outside the urban areas burned down in 1806 and has since stood as a ruin. • • The name Borgholm found in sources from 1280-century of the same name form today. Borg-inducing considered to cover the old ancient castle which have been on the brink castle location, but a different interpretation argues that it instead aimed at the site's remarkable topography. The significance would be that rock is the correct interpretation, and support for this is found among others in gotländskan which guarantees may mean beach slope or high sands, and mountain-importance has been widely circulated throughout the Ostnor wash area. • • 1816 was Borgholm city, the only one in Öland and a small city from a nationwide perspective, with only 150 inhabitants. 1906 opened Boda-Borgholms rail and in 1910 opened a railway south towards Mörbylånga and Ottenby; railways were closed in 1962. At the turn of the century began in 1900 tourism to take off, especially after the royal family's residence Solliden completed. • • http://www.borgholm.se/index.php?plac... • http://cityguide-europe.com/se/borgholm/

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