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See also: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 See also:Kalmar, 250 in
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W. of See also:Stockholm by See also:rail
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(1900), 12,715
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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
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The streets are See also:regular, and most of the houses are of See also:wood
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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
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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
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It contains the beautiful chamber of See also: 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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