Basalorum is a former village in Jörns socken in the north-west part of

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 Bo ...

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. Basalorum was built in the Jörn Parish by the Swedish state. The village was built in 1836 and got its name in the 19th century when a geographical surveyor played with the childish rhyme '' Snipp, snapp, snorum, hej basalorum''.

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 ...

Snapp Snapp is a village (nowadays more like a farm), in Jörns socken, Skellefteå Municipality, Västerbotten County, Sweden. The village got its name in the 19th century when a geographical surveyor played with the childish rhyme '' Snipp, snapp, s ...

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 ...

and Hej are four other villages in the vicinity.Karl Fahlgren: ''Skellefte sockens historia'' (1953), p. 80. Printed at Almqvist & Wiksells boktryckeri AB Basalorum was the first of these villages to be abandoned. According to the church books, the village was abandoned in 1854 when the first

settler A settler is a person who has migrated to an area and established a permanent residence there, often to colonize the area. A settler who migrates to an area previously uninhabited or sparsely inhabited may be described as a pioneer. Settle ...

with family moved to

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