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KALMAR (CALMAR)

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KALMAR (CALMAR) , a seaport of See also:Sweden on the Baltic See also:coast, See also:chief See also:town of the See also:district (Ian) of Kalmar, 250 in. S. S. W. of See also:Stockholm by See also:rail. Pop. (1900), 12,715. It lies opposite the See also:island of See also:Oland, mainly on two small islands, but partly on the mainland, where there is a pleasant See also:park. The streets are See also:regular, and most of the houses are of See also:wood. The See also:principal public edifices, however, are constructed of See also:limestone from Oland, including the See also:cathedral, built by Nicodemus See also:Tessin and his son Nicodemus in the second See also:half of the 17th See also:century. Kalmar, a town of See also:great antiquity, was formerly strongly fortified, and there remains the island-fortress of Kalmarnahus, dating partly from the 12th century, but mainly from the 16th and 17th. It contains the beautiful chamber of See also:King See also:Eric XIV. See 1.

V. 1VIushketov, Geol. Researches in the Kalmyk See also:

Steppe in 1884—1885 (St See also:Petersburg, 1894, in See also:Russian) ; Kostenkov's See also:works (1868—187o); and other works quoted in Semenov's Geogr. See also:Diet. and Russ. Encycl. Diet. (P. A. K.; J. T.

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