Ultuna () is a
locality in
Uppsala Municipality,
Uppsala County,
Sweden
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with 449 inhabitants in 2017.
[ Located south of central Uppsala, it hosts the headquarters and main campus of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet, SLU).
Ultuna is known for sharing (with Målilla, ]Småland
Småland () is a historical province () in southern Sweden.
Småland borders Blekinge, Scania, Halland, Västergötland, Östergötland and the island Öland in the Baltic Sea. The name Småland literally means ''Small Lands''. The Latinized fo ...
) Sweden's heat record of , which was recorded on 9 July 1933.
The name
The name, originally the name of an estate, is first recorded in 1221 ("in villa Wlertune"). The first element is the genitive case of the name of the Norse god Ullr. The last element is ''tuna'' 'enclosed field'.
References
Buildings and structures in Uppsala
Neighbourhoods of Uppsala
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