Ã…kerby is a small village in
Uppsala County
Uppsala County () is a county or '' län'' on the eastern coast of Sweden, whose capital is the city of Uppsala. It borders the counties of Dalarna, Stockholm, Södermanland, Västmanland, Gävleborg, and the Baltic Sea.
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Uppland
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Sweden
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[ Åkerby on Swedish Wikipedia] A famous place in Åkerby is Åkerby Vägskäl, where people gathered before emigrating to
North America
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in the 19th century. Wilhelm Moberg wrote about this in his book ''Utvandrarna''. Ã…kerby was also briefly mentioned in ''The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'', written by Stieg Larsson. The famous Swedish
polymath
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Johannes Bureus was born in Ã…kerby in 1568.
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Populated places in Uppsala County
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