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ﾃ）tte
ﾃ）tte, the Swedish Mountain and Sami Museum (), is a cultural and natural history museum in Jokkmokk in Lapland, Sweden. ﾃ）tte is a museum, which specializes in the culture and nature of the mountainous area of Northern Sweden, and which is also the main museum and archive for the Sami culture of Sweden. ﾃ）tte is also an information centre for tourism in Lapland. The word ''ﾃ｡jtte'' is a Lule Sami language one, meaning storage hut and referring to the museum as an archive for artifacts of the Sami cultural heritage. ﾃ）tte was inaugurated in June 1989 and has a staff of about 25 employees. The museum is owned and managed by a foundation, which was established in 1983 by the Swedish Government, the Norrbotten Region, the Jokkmokk Municipality and the two national Sami organizations Svenska Samernas Riksfﾃｶrbund (National Union of Swedish Sami people) and Same ﾃдnam (Sami land). According to an agreement on financing of the museum, which was entered into the same year, the G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jokkmokk
Jokkmokk () is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality and the seat of Jokkmokk Municipality in Norrbotten County, provinces of Sweden, province of Lapland, Sweden, Lapland, Sweden, with 2,786 inhabitants in 2010. The Lule Sﾃ｡mi name of the place (composed of the individual words and ) means "River's Curve," due to the meandering river that runs through it. As in other towns in Lapland, the Swedish language is dominant at an official level in Jokkmokk in modern times. The settlement is just north of the Arctic Circle. Talvatissjﾃｶn is located at the southern part of Jokkmokk. Jokkmokk is an important locality for the Sﾃ｡mi people and the location of several institutions related to them, including an education centre, the ﾃ）tte museum, and an office of the Sﾃ｡mi Parliament of Sweden. Jokkmokk was a transit center for Sﾃ｡mi refugees from Norway during World War II, in addition to the centre in Kjesﾃ､ter. Jokkmokk Market has been taking place since 1605. On the first Thursday in February ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lapland (Sweden)
Lapland, also known by its Swedish name Lappland, is a province in northernmost Sweden. It borders the Swedish provinces of Jﾃ､mtland, ﾃngermanland, Vﾃ､sterbotten, and Norrbotten, as well as Norway and Finland. Nearly a quarter of Sweden's land area is in Lapland. The historical province of Lapland originally extended further eastward. However, in 1809 the Russian Empire annexed the eastern part of Sweden and formed the Grand Duchy of Finland in that territory. This effectively split Lapland into a Swedish part and a Finnish part, both of which still exist today. Swedish Lapland primarily consists of the inland parts of Vﾃ､sterbotten County in the south and Norrbotten County in the north. It has the coldest climates of Sweden, with vast seasonal differences caused by the high latitudes and the inland location. History The history of Lapland is in many ways connected to the history of Norrbotten County and Vﾃ､sterbotten County, since Lapland is a historic region c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic country by both area and population, and is the List of European countries by area, fifth-largest country in Europe. Its capital and largest city is Stockholm. Sweden has a population of 10.6 million, and a low population density of ; 88% of Swedes reside in urban areas. They are mostly in the central and southern half of the country. Sweden's urban areas together cover 1.5% of its land area. Sweden has a diverse Climate of Sweden, climate owing to the length of the country, which ranges from 55th parallel north, 55ﾂｰN to 69th parallel north, 69ﾂｰN. Sweden has been inhabited since Prehistoric Sweden, prehistoric times around 12,000 BC. The inhabitants emerged as the Geats () and Swedes (tribe), Swedes (), who formed part of the sea-faring peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sami Culture
Acronyms * SAMI, ''Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange'', a closed-captioning format developed by Microsoft * Saudi Arabian Military Industries, a government-owned defence company * South African Malaria Initiative, a virtual expertise network of malaria researchers People * Sami (name), including lists of people with the given name or surname * Sﾃ｡mi people, the indigenous people of Norway, Sweden, the Kola Peninsula and Finland * Samantha Shapiro (born 1993), American gymnast nicknamed "Sami" Places * Sami (ancient city), an ancient Greek city in the Peloponnese * Sami, Burkina Faso, a district * Sﾃ､mi, a village in Lﾃ､ﾃ､ne-Viru County in northeastern Estonia * Sami District, Gambia * Sami, Cephalonia, Greece, a municipality ** Sami Bay, east of Sami, Cephalonia * Sami, Gujarat, India, a town * Sami, Paletwa, Myanmar, a town Other uses * Sﾃ｡mi languages, languages spoken by the Sﾃ｡mi * Sami (chimpanzee), kept at the Belgrade Zoo * Sami, a common name for ''P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lule Sami Language
Lule Sﾃ｡mi (, , ) is a Uralic- Sﾃ｡mi language spoken around the Lule River in Sweden and in the northern parts of Nordland county in Norway. In Norway it is especially seen in Hamarﾃｸy Municipality (formerly Tysfjord Municipality), where Lule Sﾃ｡mi is one of the official languages. It is written in the Latin script, having an official alphabet. History The language was originally only spoken around the Lule River, in Sweden. During the 18th century some Sﾃ｡mi migrated to Nordland in Norway, and their descendants still live in Norway, and speak Lule Sﾃ｡mi. The first book written in Lule Sﾃ｡mi, , was published in 1839 by Lars Levi Lﾃｦstadius. Status With 650 speakers, Lule Sﾃ｡mi is nonetheless the second largest of all Sﾃ｡mi languages. It is reported that the number of native speakers is in sharp decline among the younger generations. The written language was standardised in 1983 and has seen revitalization efforts in the past few decades. In Norway, thﾃ〉ran Language Centera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jokkmokk Municipality
Jokkmokk Municipality (, , , ) is a municipality in Norrbotten County in northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Jokkmokk. The name ''Jokkmokk'' is Sami for the words "river" and "bend", since the town is situated close to a bend in the nearby river. The municipality is the second largest in area of all Swedish municipalities and is, with an area of 19,477 km2 (approximately 7,520 square miles) slightly smaller than Slovenia or the US state of New Jersey. It has never been amalgamated with another entity, having been that large ever since municipalities were established in Sweden in 1863. History The name Jokkmokk is present in the Jokkmokk Lapland Court District, a historical jurisdiction. When the municipality was given its current borders in 1971, its municipal coat of arms were made to depict the hydro plant, the symbol of Luleﾃ･ (to which Jokkmokk belonged until 1673), and the traditional Sami hammers. Geography The municipality is situated in the Scandinavian M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarek National Park
Sarek National Park () is a national park in Jokkmokk Municipality, Lapland in northern Sweden. Established in 1909, the park is among the oldest national parks in Europe. It is adjacent to two other national parks, namely Stora Sjﾃｶfallet and Padjelanta. The shape of Sarek National Park is roughly circular with an average diameter of about . The most noted features of the national park are six of Sweden's thirteen peaks over located within the park's boundaries. Among these is the second highest mountain in Sweden, Sarektjﾃ･kkﾃ･,and ﾃ”kkﾃ｡ which is located just outside the park. The park has about 200 mountains over , 82 of which have names. Sarek is also the name of a geographical area which the national park is part of. The Sarek mountain district includes a total of eight peaks over . Due to the long trek, the mountains in the district are seldom climbed. There are approximately 100 glaciers in Sarek National Park. Sarek is a popular area for hikers and mountaineers. Beg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Axel Hamberg
Axel Hamberg (17 January 1863 – 28 June 1933) was a Swedish mineralogist, geographer and explorer. Biography Hamberg was born in Stockholm, Sweden. He was the son of Nils Peter Hamberg (1815-1902) and Emma Augusta Christina Hﾃ､rnstrﾃｶm (1833-1914). Hamberg became a student at Uppsala University in 1881, philosophy candidate in 1888 and was awarded a Licentiate degree in 1893. He became an associate professor of mineralogy and crystallography in the same year at Stockholm University. In 1907, he received his philosophy doctor and was appointed as an extra ordinary professor at the University of Uppsala. He served as a professor in geography at Uppsala until 1928. In 1883, he attended the expedition of Adolf Erik Nordenskiﾃｶld to Greenland and in 1898 accompanied on the expedition of Alfred Nathorst on the ship "Antarctic" to Svalbard and Kong Karls Land. At the General Art and Industrial Exposition of Stockholm of 1897, he received a gold medal for an exhibition of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
