Hanseatic Town of Visby

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Sweden

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Visby is a Viking site on the island of Gotland and was the main center of the Baltic Hanseatic League from the 12th to the 14th century. Visby retains its 13th-century city walls and more than 200 warehouses and wealthy merchants' houses from the same period, making it the best-preserved commercial fortress city in Northern Europe.

# 12th to 14th century

# storehouse

Almedalen park

City view including Visby Cathedral in the second half of the 19th century

Valdemar Atterdag holding Visby to ransom, 1361, by Carl Gustaf Hellqvist (1851–1890)

Train at Visby railway station during the last year of traffic, 1960

General view towards the cathedral from Övre Finngränd on Klinten

Visby circa 1700, in Suecia Antiqua et Hodierna

Visby as seen on an engraving from c. 1580

The ferry terminal in the harbour

Panorama image of Visby harbour, April 2008

Reconstruction of Visby harbour during the Middle Ages

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Information extracted from Wikidata

postal code	621 xx
Commons category	Visby
valid in period	standard time
local dialing code	0498
coordinate location	Point(18.307108945 57.628997457)
Swedish urban area code	T2552
Commons gallery	Hansestaden Visby
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WOEID	910100
capital of	Gotland Municipality
official name	Visby
category for people born here	Czech Inspiration
category for people who died here	Global Geoparks Network
native label	Visby
area	12440000
category for maps	Cesena
category for the view of the item	Cascinette d'Ivrea
uses	4063609-4
country	Sweden
start time	1960-11-01T00:00:00Z
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executive body	Visby
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WOEID	910100
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IPA transcription	1916267
number of rooms	lccn-n79123581
topographic prominence	64805
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language of work or name	Swedish
population	24693
point in time	2019-12-31T00:00:00Z
population	16973
point in time	1965-11-01T00:00:00Z
population	24272
point in time	2018-12-31T00:00:00Z
population	23753
point in time	2016-12-31T00:00:00Z
population	19245
point in time	1970-11-01T00:00:00Z
population	24309
point in time	2018-12-31T00:00:00Z
population	23845
point in time	2017-12-31T00:00:00Z
population	15014
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population	23402
point in time	2015-12-31T00:00:00Z
population	24942
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area	1369
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language of work or name	English
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media legend	Almedalen i Visby
located in the administrative territorial entity	Gotland
end time	1634-01-01T00:00:00Z
located in the administrative territorial entity	Visby stad
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end time	1970-12-31T00:00:00Z
located in the administrative territorial entity	Gotland Municipality
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locator map image	http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Visby%2016arh.jpg
point in time	1600-01-01T00:00:00Z