Västgöta Nation
Västgöta Nation may refer to one of the two following Swedish student nations: * Västgöta Nation, Lund * Västgöta Nation, Uppsala Västgöta Nation, commonly known as Västgöta or VG, is one of the List of Uppsala University nations, thirteen student nations of Uppsala University, originally intended for students from Västergötland, Västergötland Province. It was founded ...

Student Nations
Student nations or simply nations ( la, natio meaning "being born") are regional corporations of students at a university. Once widespread across Europe in medieval times, they are now largely restricted to the oldest universities of Sweden and Finland, in part because of the violent conflicts between the nations in university towns in other countries. Medieval universities were cosmopolitan, with students from many different domestic and foreign regions. Students who were born within the same region usually spoke the same language, expected to be ruled by their own familiar laws, and therefore joined together to form the nations. The most similar comparison in the Anglo-world to the nation system is in the collegiate system of older British universities or fraternities at American universities; however, both of these comparisons are imperfect. In Portugal and Brazil, there are fraternities called '' Repúblicas'', but this has nothing to do with the ''natio'' original concept of ...
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Västgöta Nation, Lund
The Västgöta Nation, colloquially known as VG's, is one of thirteen student nations at Lund University in Sweden. With its 2,812 members, it is the fifth-largest nation in Lund. History The nation traces its history to 28 January 1669, exactly one year after the founding of Lund University. Due to the Scanian War from 1675 to 1679, the university's and the nation's activities were halted until 1685 for the nation's part. Since 1685, its traditions have followed an unbroken succession, although it merged with Östgöta Nation and Kalmar Nation as the united '' Götiska Nationen'' ("the Gothic Nation"), between 1767 and 1821 as a result of low student numbers at the university. Since its founding, the purpose of the nation was to offer social support and a meeting place for students who came from Västergötland. Membership numbers remained low, however, hovering around only 20-30 students up until the 1900s. During its first centuries of existence the nation had no hou ...
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