Burträsk is a

locality Locality may refer to: * Locality (association), an association of community regeneration organizations in England * Locality (linguistics) * Locality (settlement) * Suburbs and localities (Australia), in which a locality is a geographic subdivis ...

situated in

Skellefteå Municipality Skellefteå Municipality () is a municipality in Västerbotten County in northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Skellefteå. History Most of the amalgamations leading to the present municipality took place in 1967 when the then "City of Skelle ...

Västerbotten County Västerbotten County ( sv, Västerbottens län) is a county or ''län'' in the north of Sweden. It shares the borders with the counties of Västernorrland, Jämtland, and Norrbotten, as well as the Norwegian county of Nordland and the Gulf of Bot ...

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 1,575 inhabitants in 2010. It is notable as the only place where

Västerbotten cheese Västerbotten cheese ( sv, Västerbottensost ) is a cheese from the Västerbotten region of Sweden. History The village of Burträsk (now part of the Skellefteå municipality) claims Västerbotten cheese was invented there in the 1870s, supposed ...

is made. ''Burträsk Court District'', or ''Burträsks tingslag'', was a district of

Västerbotten Västerbotten (), known in English as West Bothnia or Westrobothnia, is a province (''landskap'') in the north of Sweden, bordering Ångermanland, Lapland, North Bothnia, and the Gulf of Bothnia. It is known for the cheese named after the provi ...

. The provinces in

Norrland Norrland (, "Northland", originally ''Norrlanden'' or "the Northlands") is the northernmost, largest and least populated of the three traditional lands of Sweden, consisting of nine provinces. Although Norrland does not serve any administr ...

were never divided into hundreds and instead the court district (''

tingslag A thing, german: ding, ang, þing, enm, thing. (that is, "assembly" or folkmoot) was a governing assembly in early Germanic society, made up of the free people of the community presided over by a lawspeaker. Things took place at regular in ...

'') served as the basic division of rural areas.

Burträsk Fault Burträsk Fault ( sv, Burträskförkastningen) is a large geological fault located in Northern Sweden. The fault had a major period of seismic activity following the Weichselian_glaciation#Final_deglaciation, deglaciation of Fennoscandia about 10,00 ...

is named after the village.

People

Edvin Larsson Gustav Edvin Larsson (24 January 1925 – 4 April 2009) was a Swedish theologian. Publishing ''Christus als Vorbild'' in 1962, he took the dr.theol. degree. He was a docent at Uppsala University from 1962 and then professor at the MF Norwegian Sc ...

(1925–2009), theologian.

References

Populated places in Västerbotten County Populated places in Skellefteå Municipality {{Västerbotten-geo-stub