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Himle Hundred
Himle Hundred ( sv, Himle härad) was a hundred in Halland, Sweden. The origin of its name is uncertain It was composed of the following parishes (all now in Varberg Municipality): Grimeton, Gödestad, Hunnestad, Lindberg, Nösslinge, Rolfstorp Rolfstorp is a locality and former parish situated in Varberg Municipality, Halland County, Sweden with 513 inhabitants in 2010. The name is formed out of Rolf (a male name) and thorpe (a new settlement). The latter part makes it likely that ..., Skällinge, Spannarp, Stamnared, Torpa, Träslöv, Tvååker and Valinge. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Himle hundred Hundreds of Halland ...
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Himle Härad
Himle may refer to: *Himle (locality), locality in Varberg Municipality, Sweden *Himle Hundred, a List of hundreds of Sweden, hundred of Sweden People with the surname Himle *Erick Clausen Himle (1930-1910), American politician and farmer *Erik Himle (1924–2008), Norwegian civil servant and politician *John Himle (born 1954), American politician and businessman *Thorstein Himle (1857–1925), Norwegian-born American missionary See also

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Tvååker Parish
Tvååker is the second largest locality situated in Varberg Municipality, Halland County, Sweden, with 2,534 inhabitants in 2010. It is located about 15 km south-east of Varberg. Name The actual name ''Tvååker'' could be translated as ''twofield'' (or ''twoacre''). But it is instead a corruption of the name ''Toaker'' (1198). The word ''to'' has been interpreted as ''flax'', i.e. ''"flax field"''.Svenskt ortnamnslexikon 2003. Education The village has a lower secondary school, ''Bosgårdsskolan'' as well as an upper secondary school, Munkagårdsgymnasiet, which is focused on animal care, agriculture, forestry and landscaping. Sport The football team, ''Tvååkers IF'' was formed in 1920 and has a male team for the first time as high as 2nd league and a joint female team with Galtabäck in the 5th league. A floorball-team, ''Tvååkers IBK'', was formed in 1986 and played in the top league for two seasons in the early 1990s. Other sports clubs located in Tvååker includ ...
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Torpa Parish
Torpa may refer to: * Torpa, Norway, a former municipality in Oppland county * Torpa (district), Gothenburg, Sweden * Torpa, Vänersborg, a district of Vänersborg, Sweden * Torpa, Ydre, a village in Ydre Municipality, Sweden * Torpa block, a community development block in Khunti district, Jharkhand, India ** Torpa (Vidhan Sabha constituency) ** Torpa, India Torpa is a census town in the Torpa CD block in the Khunti Sadar subdivision of the Khunti district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Geography Location Torpa is located at Area overview In the adjacent map the ..., a census town in Jharkhand, India * Torpa, a fictional town in Russia, in the 2007 novel '' Vita Nostra'' by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko] {{geodis ...
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Skällinge Parish
Skällinge is a locality situated in Varberg Municipality, Halland County, Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ..., with 626 inhabitants in 2010. References Populated places in Varberg Municipality {{Halland-geo-stub ...
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Rolfstorp Parish
Rolfstorp is a locality and former parish situated in Varberg Municipality, Halland County, Sweden with 513 inhabitants in 2010. The name is formed out of Rolf (a male name) and thorpe (a new settlement). The latter part makes it likely that the village got its name during the 11th century to 13th century. Geography Rolfstorp is on the border between the mostly cultivated coastal area of Halland County and the mostly forest covered inner areas. History The western parts of the parish form part of a somewhat larger region, covering areas from Spannarp to Skällinge, which is rich on Iron- and Bronze Age findings. The eastern part of the parish has quite few remains. Notable people *The Bocksten Man, well preserved medieval corpse found within the parish * Ines Uusmann, Swedish minister of communication Communication (from la, communicare, meaning "to share" or "to be in relation with") is usually defined as the transmission of information. The term may also refer to th ...
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Lindberg Parish
Lindberg is a municipality in the district of Regen in Bavaria in Germany in the immediate neighbourhood of the larger town Zwiesel. Location Lindberg lies in the Danube Forest (''Donau-Wald'') region in the middle of the Bavarian Forest on the Glasstraße at the foot of the 1,315-metre-high Falkenstein only four kilometres from Zwiesel and 14 km northeast of the county town of Regen, 30 km northwest of Grafenau and 14 km from the border at Bayerisch Eisenstein. Sights * Höllbachgspreng The Höllbachgspreng is a wooded rock massif below the Großer Falkenstein mountain in the vicinity of Lindberg in the Bavarian Forest, Germany. Description This terrain hollow with extremely steep sides owes its formation to the last ice age. ... References Regen (district) {{Regendistrict-geo-stub ...
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Himle Vapen
Himle may refer to: * Himle (locality), locality in Varberg Municipality, Sweden *Himle Hundred, a hundred of Sweden People with the surname Himle * Erick Clausen Himle (1930-1910), American politician and farmer *Erik Himle (1924–2008), Norwegian civil servant and politician * John Himle (born 1954), American politician and businessman *Thorstein Himle (1857–1925), Norwegian-born American missionary See also *Himley Himley is a small village and civil parish in the English ceremonial county of Staffordshire, situated 4 miles west of Dudley and 5 miles southwest of Wolverhampton. At the time of the 2011 Census, Himley had a population of 802.It is most not ...
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