Snapp is a village (nowadays more like a farm), in
Jörns socken,
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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The village got its name in the 19th century when a
geographical surveyor played with the childish rhyme ''
Snipp, snapp, snorum, hej basalorum'' and named five new populated places in the
Jörn Parish
Jörn is a locality situated in Skellefteå Municipality, Västerbotten County, Sweden with 797 inhabitants in 2010. Vladimir Lenin made his last stop in Sweden at the railway station
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means ...
each after a word in the rhyme. The buildings' designations in the village still bear the name Snapp (Snapp 1:3 and Snapp 1:4).
Snipp
Snipp is a village in Jörns socken, Skellefteå Municipality, Västerbotten County, Sweden. The village has repeatedly lost population and after the first decade of the 21st century, there is no longer any permanent residents there.
The village ...
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Snorum
Snorum is a village, nowadays more like a farm, in Jörns socken, Skellefteå Municipality, Västerbotten County, Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the c ...
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Hej and
Basalorum Basalorum is a former village in Jörns socken in the north-west part of Skellefteå Municipality, Västerbotten County, Sweden.
Basalorum was built in the Jörn Parish by the Swedish state. The village was built in 1836 and got its name in the 1 ...
are four other villages in the vicinity.
[Karl Fahlgren: ''Skellefte sockens historia'' (1953), p. 80. Printed at Almqvist & Wiksells boktryckeri AB]
References
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Villages in Sweden
Populated places in Västerbotten County