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Trelleborg
Europe is one of the five inhabited traditional continents of the Earth. Physically and geologically, Europe is the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, west of Asia. Europe is bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Mediterranean Sea, and to the southeast by the waterways adjoining the Mediterranean to and including the Black Sea and the Caucasus Mountains. On the east, Europe is divided from Asia by the water divide of the Ural Mountains and by the Caspian Sea. Europe is the world's second-smallest continent in terms of area and third-largest continent after Asia and Africa in population.
Trelleborg Municipality is a municipality and city in Skane in southernmost Sweden. It has a total population of 38,429, of which many live in rural districts and about 24,000 live in the city proper. Trelleborg is located on the southern shore of Sweden and is the southernmost municipality in Sweden. It covers an area of 341.6 square kilometers. It boosts 35 kilometers of predomninantly sandy beach in the south, beech woods to the north, and in between one of the most fertile soils in the world.
Trelleborg has been populated for at least one thousand years. In the 10th century or earlier, a Trelleborg was built by Danish Vikings. It was rediscovered in the 1990's, and rebuilt, and now it hosts activities every summer. The first written mention of Trelleborg, in the scarce Swedish medieval sources, is from 1257, when Trelleborg and the adjacent city Malmo were presented as a wedding gift from the Danish royal family to the Swedish Prince Valdemar. It was soon reconquered by the Danes, and it belonged to Denmark until 1658, when the entire district Terra Scania was lost to Sweden in a war.
In the end of the 19th century, Trelleborg became an industrial town and the foundation of modern Trelleborg has largely been created by a few large companies and most notably Trelleborg Industries and the ferry company and business related to the seaport. Much of it has been the work of the influential businessman Johan Kock.
Trelleborg is definitely one of the popular tourist attractions in Europe worth paying a visit while touring the country. This place leaves a pleasing and unforgettable memory and justifies the proud cultural tradition of Europe.
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