Komstad is a village in the former
Norra Ljunga Parish
A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one o ...
,
Småland, Sweden, suited about west of
Sävsjö
Sävsjö is a locality and the seat of Sävsjö Municipality, Jönköping County
Jönköping County ( sv, Jönköpings län) is a county or '' län'' in southern Sweden. It borders the counties of Halland, Västra Götaland, Östergötlan ...
town.
It is an old village, mentioned in historical records as early as 1370.
Recent research tries to document that
Jonas Bronck
Jonas Bronck (alternatively Jonas Jonsson Brunk, Jonas Jonasson Bronk, or Jonas Jonassen Bronck) was born around year 1600 and died in 1643. Bronck was an immigrant to the Dutch colony of New Netherland after whom the Bronx River, and by extension ...
(), who gave name to
The Bronx
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,
New York, United States, was born in Komstad.
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Komstad was previously the location for the parish's
Thing
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Philosophy
* An object
* Broadly, an entity
* Thing-in-itself (or ''noumenon''), the reality that underlies perceptions, a term coined by Immanuel Kant
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and was the main village in
Västra Härad (western part of
Njudung). But when the railroad was constructed in the 1860s, nearby Sävsjö became the new main town in the region.
External links
* Site in connection with Komstad and its region
Baltic lodge No.689, Vasa order of America
References
Populated places in Jönköping County
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