LANDSKRONA  , a seaport of

Sweden, on the east side of the Sound, 15 m . N.E. of Copenhagen . Pop . (1900) 14,399 . The harbour is excellent, giving a depth of 35 ft., with 15 ft. beside the quays . The town is among the first twelve manufacturing centres of Sweden in value of output, the principal industries being tanning and sugar manufacture and refining from beetroot . On the little island of Hven, immediately opposite the town, Tycho Brahe built his famous subterranean observatory of Uranienborg in the second half of the 16th century . Landskrona, originally called Landora or Landor, owed its first importance to King Erik NIII., who introduced a body of Carmelite monks from Germany in 1410, and bestowed on the place the privileges of a town . During the wars of the 16th and 17th centuries it played too conspicuous a part for its own prosperity . On the 24th of July 1677 a great naval battle was fought in the neighbourhood in which the Swedes defeated the Danes .