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VESTERAS, or WESTERAS

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 1056 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VESTERAS, or WESTERAS , a See also:town and See also:bishop's see of See also:Sweden, See also:capital of the See also:district (See also:Jan) of Vestmanland, on a See also:northern See also:bay of See also:Lake See also:Malar, 6o m. N.W. by W. of See also:Stockholm by See also:rail. Pop. (1900) 11,999. It is a considerable See also:industrial centre and an important lake See also:port. Its See also:Gothic See also:cathedral, rebuilt by See also:Birger Jarl on an earlier site, and consecrated in 1271, was restored in 1850-186o, and again in 1896-1898. The episcopal library contains the valuable collection of books which See also:Oxenstjerna, the See also:chancellor of Gustavus See also:Adolphus, brought away from See also:Mainz near the end of the See also:Thirty Years' See also:War. A See also:castle commands the town from an See also:eminence; it was captured by Gustavus See also:Vasa and rebuilt by him, and again in the 17th See also:century, and remains the seat of the provincial See also:government. Here See also:Eric XIV., whose See also:tomb is in the cathedral., was confined (1573-1575). Several See also:national diets were held in this town, the most notable being those of 1527, when Gustavus Vasa formally introduced the See also:Reformation into Sweden, and 1544, when he had the See also:Swedish See also:throne declared hereditary in his See also:family. The See also:original name of the town was Vestra Aros (" western mouth "), in distinction from See also:Ostra Aros, the former name of See also:Upsala.

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