Tygelsjö is a

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situated in

Malmö Municipality Malmö Municipality ( sv, Malmö kommun), or City of Malmö (''Malmö stad''), is a Swedish municipality in Skåne County, the southernmost of the counties of Sweden (and conterminous with the historical province (''landskap'') of Scania). Whe ...

Skåne County Skåne County ( sv, Skåne län, link=no ), sometimes referred to as Scania County in English, is the most southern county, or , of Sweden, basically corresponding to the traditional province Scania. It borders the counties of Halland, Kronobe ...

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with 3,455 inhabitants in 2018. It's a suburb to

Malmö Malmö (, ; da, Malmø ) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Scania (Skåne). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal populat ...

and lies west of the E22/ E6 highway. There are bus routes to

and

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Etymology

The oldest mention of Tygelsjö in the form ''Tyelsse'' comes from 1393. This can be interpreted as a composition of the word ''tye'' (tufty ground) and the word ''lösa'' (field). Combined, it means something like, ''The village by the tufty field).

History

The ground where Tygelsjö stands today has been farmed since the

Stone Age The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface. The period lasted for roughly 3.4 million years, and ended between 4,000 BC and 2,000 BC, with t ...

. There have been several archeological sites in the area, especially by the west end of town. The village probably arose sometime during the

Viking Age The Viking Age () was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonizing, conquest, and trading throughout Europe and reached North America. It followed the Migration Period and the Ger ...

and the area was split up into

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, ...

s during the 1200s.

References

Neighbourhoods of Malmö Populated places in Malmö Municipality Populated places in Skåne County {{Skåne-geo-stub