Smaland

Smaland is a historical province in southern Sweden . Smaland borders Blekinge , Scania Halland , Vastergotland , Ostergotland and the island Oland within the Baltic Sea . The call Smaland literally method Small Lands . The Latinized shape Smolandia has been utilized in other languages. The highest point in Smaland is Tomtabacken, at 377 metres The place become probable populated in the Stone Age from the south, through humans shifting along the coast as much as Kalmar. Småland become populated by way of Stone Age peoples by as a minimum 6000 BC, because the Alby People are regarded to have crossed the ice bridge across the Kalmar Strait at that time. It is known as Småland "small lands" because it turned into an aggrupation of a dozen little yet largely impartial territories:

Kinda today part of Östergötland, Tveta, Vista, Vedbo, Tjust, Sevede, Aspeland, Handbörd, Möre, Värend, Finnveden, and Njudung. Each "small land" had its very own regulation within the Viking age and early Middle Ages and could itself impartial in wars that Sweden turned into involved in -- at least if the King had no military present on the parliamentary debate. Around 1350, in the course of the reign of Magnus Eriksson, the primary national law code turned into delivered in Sweden and the historical provinces misplaced plenty in their antique autonomy.