Slite is a

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situated in

Gotland Municipality Region Gotland, officially Gotlands kommun ( en, Gotland Municipality), is a municipality that covers the entire island of Gotland in Sweden. The city of Visby is the municipality's seat. Gotland Municipality is the 39th most populous municipal ...

Gotland County Gotland County ( sv, Gotlands län) is a county or '' län'' of Sweden. Gotland is located in the Baltic Sea to the east of Öland, and is the largest of Sweden's islands. Counties are usually sub-divided into municipalities, but Gotland County ...

, on the island of

Gotland Gotland (, ; ''Gutland'' in Gutnish), also historically spelled Gottland or Gothland (), is Sweden's largest island. It is also a province, county, municipality, and diocese. The province includes the islands of Fårö and Gotska Sandön to the ...

, Sweden with 1,500 inhabitants in 2014.

Geography

Slite is situated on the northern east coast of Gotland. The town is divided by the Sjuströmmar inlet, connecting Bogevik bay with the

Baltic Sea The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden and the North and Central European Plain. The sea stretches from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from ...

. The north, and main part, of the town is situated in Othem

socken Socken is the name used for a part of a county in Sweden. In Denmark similar areas are known as ''sogn'', in Norway ''sokn'' or ''sogn'' and in Finland ''pitäjä'' ''(socken)''. A socken is a country-side area that was formed around a church, ...

and the part south of Sjuströmmar is in Boge socken. Outside Slite is a small

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called Slite skärgård. The largest island is Asunden with its

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area. Close to the south tip of Asunden is the smaller Grunnet island. The island closest to Sjuströmmar is Enholmen where

Karlsvärd Fortress Karlsvärd Fortress ( sv, Karlsvärds fästning) is a former fortification on the island of Enholmen near Slite on Gotland, Sweden. In its place Enholmen Fortress ( sv, Enholmens fästning) was built in the mid-1800s. It was decommissioned in 190 ...

is situated. High on a cliff in the north part of Slite is the modern

Slite Church Slite Church is a church in Slite, on the island of Gotland in Sweden. The church was designed by the Danish architect Holger Jensen and built 1959–1960. It is built using only local materials such a pine wood and limestone. The rood cross and t ...

built in 1959–60. It is designed by Danish architect Holger Jensen. , Slite Church belongs to Othem-Boge

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 or m ...

in Norra Gotlands

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, along with the churches in Othem and Boge.

History

For a long time Slite was an important place for trade and business; nowadays tourism is an important source of income along with the stone and gravel industry, producing concrete from raw material of

limestone Limestone ( calcium carbonate ) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of . Limestone forms whe ...

from nearby

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. The landscape outside Slite is dominated by the Cementa AB limestone quarry. In 1902–1953, Slite was connected to

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by the Slite-Roma railway.

Events

The annual Slite Market is the first of the major autumn markets on Gotland. There are five official markets held on the island in August–October: Slite,

Havdhem Havdhem () is a locality situated on the Swedish island of Gotland with 300 inhabitants in 2014. Havdhem is also the name of the larger populated area, socken (not to be confused with parish). It comprises the same area as the administrative Havdh ...

Kräklingbo Kräklingbo () is a populated area, a ''socken'' (not to be confused with Parishes of the Church of Sweden, parish), on the Swedish island of Gotland. It comprises the same area as the Registration districts in Sweden, administrative Kräklingbo Di ...

Klintehamn Klintehamn () is a locality in Klinte on the Swedish island of Gotland with 1,350 inhabitants in 2010. Transportation Klintehamn is a shipping port on the west coast of Gotland where timber and agricultural products are shipped to mainland Swede ...

and

Hemse Hemse is a locality situated on the Swedish island of Gotland with 1,700 inhabitants in 2014. It is the second largest locality (after Visby) on the island. Hemse is the main center of population in the southern part of the island, and it is kno ...

, each usually spanning a weekend.

References

External links

* {{Authority control Populated places in Gotland County Port cities and towns of the Baltic Sea