Blåvik is a village in
Boxholm Municipality,
Östergötland County
Östergötland County () is a county or '' län'' in southeastern Sweden. It has land borders with the counties of Kalmar to the southeast, Jönköping to the southwest, Örebro to the northwest, and Södermanland to the northeast. It also has a ...
. It lies in the traditional province of
Östergötland at the northern shores of
Lake Sommen. According to ''Svenskt ortnamnslexikon'' the name of the locality is first attested in 1307 as Blawijk, meaning not the ordinary blue color but "dark blue" and "dark". This is likely a reference to color of the lake embayment at place.
References
Sommen
Populated places in Boxholm Municipality
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