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LINKOPING , a See also:

city of See also:Sweden, the seat of a See also:bishop, and See also:chief See also:town of the See also:district (tan) of Ostergotland. Pop. (1900) 14,552. It is situated in a fertile See also:plain 142 M. by See also:rail S.W. of See also:Stockholm, and communicates with See also:Lake Roxen (2 m. to the See also:north) and the Gata and Kinda canals by means of the navigable Stanga. The See also:cathedral (1150-1494), a Romanesque See also:building with a beautiful See also:south portal and a See also:Gothic See also:choir, is, next to the cathedral of See also:Upsala, the largest See also:church in Sweden. It contains an See also:altar-piece by See also:Martin Heemskerck (d. 1574), which is said to have been bought by See also:John II. for twelve See also:hundred See also:measures of See also:wheat. In the church of St Lars are some paintings by Per Horberg (1746—1816), the See also:Swedish See also:peasant artist. Other buildings of See also:note are the massive episcopal See also:palace (1470-1500), afterwards a royal palace, and the old gymnasium founded by Gustavus See also:Adolphus in 1627, which contains the valuable library of old books and See also:manuscripts belonging to the See also:diocese and See also:state See also:college, and collection of coins and antiquities. There is also the Ostergotland Museum, with an See also:art collection. The town has manufactures of See also:tobacco, See also:cloth and See also:hosiery. It is the See also:head-quarters of the second See also:army See also:division.

Linkoping See also:

early became a See also:place of See also:mark, and was already a bishop's see in 1082. It was at a See also:council held in the town in 1153 that the See also:payment of See also:Peter's pence was agreed to at the instigation of See also:Nicholas Breakspeare, afterwards See also:Adrian IV. The See also:coronation of See also:Birger Jarlsson Valdemar took place in the cathedral in 1251; and in the reign of Gustavus See also:Vasa several important diets were held in the town. At Stangabro (Stanga See also:Bridge), See also:close by, an See also:obelisk (1898) commemorates the See also:battle of Stangabro (1598), when See also:Duke See also:Charles (See also:Protestant) defeated the See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:Sigismund. A circle of stones in the See also:Iron See also:Market of Linkoping marks the spot where Sigismund's adherents were beheaded in 1600.

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