Place:Vetlanda, Jönköping, Sweden

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NameVetlanda
Alt namesVetlanda kommun
Vetlandasource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypeMunicipality
Coordinates57.433°N 15.083°E
Located inJönköping, Sweden
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Karlstorp
Skirö
Parish
Alseda
Björkö
Bäckaby
Bäckseda
Fröderyd
Korsberga
Lannaskede
Lemnhult
Myresjö
Nye
Näsby
Näshult
Nävelsjö
Ramkvilla
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Vetlanda Municipality (Vetlanda kommun) is a municipality in Jönköping County, in southern Sweden where the town of Vetlanda is the seat.

The municipality was created in 1971 when the City of Vetlanda (instituted in 1920) was amalgamated with the surrounding rural municipalities to form a unitary municipality. In 1863, when the first local government acts in Sweden came into force, there were more than 20 entities within the area of the present municipality.

Vetlanda is the birthplace of Johan Franzén, a professional ice hockey center who played for the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League.

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History

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The history of Vetlanda goes back to at least the medieval age when it was the seat for the regional assembly called þing (thing). According to the imaginations of Petter Rudebeck (1660–1710), Vetlanda was before that known as Vitala, and the centre of a mythological kingdom. However, all later archeological research has failed in finding any evidence of it. But the myth was popular during the 18th and 19th century, which displays in the naming of several companies and locations around the municipality.

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