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Göta Canal, the Glossary

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19th century in Sweden
Canals in Sweden
Canals opened in 1832
Government-owned companies of Sweden
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Works of Thomas Telford

AB Svenska Järnvägsverkstädernas Aeroplanavdelning

AB Svenska Järnvägsverkstädernas Aeroplanavdelning (English: Swedish Railroad Workshops' Air Plane Department), commonly shortened to ASJA, was a Swedish aircraft manufacturing company.

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Östgöta Correspondenten

Östgöta Correspondenten, commonly known as Corren, is a daily Swedish language newspaper in Linköping, Sweden.

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Øresund

Øresund or Öresund (Øresund; Öresund), commonly known in English as the Sound, is a strait which forms the Danish–Swedish border, separating Zealand (Denmark) from Scania (Sweden).

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Baltic Sea

The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North and Central European Plain.

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Baltzar von Platen (1766–1829)

Count Baltzar Bogislaus von Platen (29 May 1766 – 6 December 1829) was a Swedish naval officer and statesman.

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Boren (Sweden)

Boren is a lake in Östergötland, east of Motala, 73 m above sea level.

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Borensberg

Borensberg is a locality situated in Motala Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden with 2,886 inhabitants in 2010.

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The Caledonian Canal connects the Scottish east coast at Inverness with the west coast at Corpach near Fort William in Scotland. Göta Canal and Caledonian Canal are historic Civil Engineering Landmarks and Works of Thomas Telford.

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Canal

Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi).

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Charles XIII

Charles XIII, or Carl XIII (Karl XIII, 7 October 1748 – 5 February 1818), was King of Sweden from 1809 and King of Norway from 1814 to his death.

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Civil engineer

A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering – the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructure while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing infrastructure that may have been neglected.

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Crimean War

The Crimean War was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between the Russian Empire and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom, and Sardinia-Piedmont.

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Denmark–Norway

Denmark–Norway (Danish and Norwegian: Danmark–Norge) is a term for the 16th-to-19th-century multi-national and multi-lingual real unionFeldbæk 1998:11 consisting of the Kingdom of Denmark, the Kingdom of Norway (including the then Norwegian overseas possessions: the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, and other possessions), the Duchy of Schleswig, and the Duchy of Holstein.

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Draft (hull)

The draft or draught of a ship is a determined depth of the vessel below the waterline, measured vertically to its hull's lowest—its propellers, or keel, or other reference point.

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Forsvik

Forsvik is a locality situated in Karlsborg Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden.

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Göta älv

The ("River of (the) Geats") is a river that drains lake Vänern into the Kattegat, at the city of Gothenburg, on the western coast of Sweden.

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Götaland

Götaland (also Gothia, Gothland, Gothenland or Gautland) is one of three lands of Sweden and comprises ten provinces.

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Gothenburg

Gothenburg (abbreviated Gbg; Göteborg) is the capital of Västra Götaland County in Sweden.

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Hans Brask

Hans Brask (1464–1538) was a Swedish Bishop of Linköping.

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Hanseatic League

The Hanseatic League was a medieval commercial and defensive network of merchant guilds and market towns in Central and Northern Europe.

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Height above mean sea level

Height above mean sea level is a measure of a location's vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) in reference to a vertical datum based on a historic mean sea level.

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History of the British canal system

The canal network of the United Kingdom played a vital role in the Industrial Revolution.

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Kiel Canal

The Kiel Canal (Nord-Ostsee-Kanal, literally "North –East (i.e. Baltic) Sea canal", formerly known as the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal) is a long freshwater canal in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein.

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Kingston upon Hull

Kingston upon Hull, usually shortened to Hull, is a port city and unitary authority area in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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Knot (unit)

The knot is a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour, exactly (approximately or). The ISO standard symbol for the knot is kn.

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Linköping

Linköping is a city in southern Sweden, with around 165,000 inhabitants as of 2021.

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List of government enterprises of Sweden

This is a list of Swedish companies owned by the Swedish state. Göta Canal and list of government enterprises of Sweden are government-owned companies of Sweden.

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Ljungsbro

Ljungsbro is a locality situated area in Linköping Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden with 6,620 inhabitants in 2010.

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Mem Castle

Mem Castle (Mems slott) is located at Tåby parish, Norrköping Municipality in Östergötland County Sweden.

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Motala

Motala is a locality and the seat of Motala Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden with 29,823 inhabitants (41,956 in the entire municipality) in 2010.

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Motala Verkstad

AB Motala Verkstad is one of the oldest engineering companies in Sweden.

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Norsholm

Norsholm is a locality situated in Norrköping Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden with 615 inhabitants in 2010.

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Rail transport in Sweden

Rail transport in Sweden uses a network of, the 24th largest in the world.

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Roxen (lake)

Roxen is a medium-sized lake in south-central Sweden, east of Lake Vättern, part of the waterpath Motala ström and the Göta Canal.

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Saab AB

Saab AB (originally,, acronym SAAB), with subsidiaries collectively known as the Saab Group (Saabgruppen), is a Swedish aerospace and defense company primarily operating from Sweden.

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow.

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Söderköping

Söderköping is a locality and the seat of Söderköping Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden with 6,992 inhabitants in 2010.

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Scotland

Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Sound Dues

The Sound Dues (or Sound Tolls; Øresundstolden) were a toll on the use of the Øresund, or "Sound" strait separating the modern day borders of Denmark and Sweden.

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Sweden

Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.

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Swedish Navy

The Swedish Navy (Svenska marinen) is the maritime service branch of the Swedish Armed Forces.

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Swedish riksdaler

The svenska riksdaler was the name of a Swedish coin first minted in 1604.

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Thomas Telford

Thomas Telford (9 August 1757 – 2 September 1834) was a Scottish civil engineer.

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Trollhätte Canal

The Trollhätte Canal (Trollhätte kanal) is a canal in Sweden. Göta Canal and Trollhätte Canal are canals in Sweden.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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Vänern

Vänern is the largest lake in Sweden, the largest lake in the European Union and the third-largest lake in Europe after Ladoga and Onega in Russia.

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Vättern

Vättern is the second-largest lake by surface area in Sweden, after Vänern, and the sixth-largest lake in Europe.

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Viken (lake)

Viken is a lake in Sweden.

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Wallenberg family

The Wallenberg family is a prominent Swedish family renowned as bankers, industrialists, politicians, bureaucrats and diplomats, present in most large Swedish industrial groups, like Ericsson, Electrolux, ABB, SAS Group, SKF, AIK, Atlas Copco, Saab AB, and more.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Göta_Canal

Also known as Goeta Canal, Goeta kanal, Goetacanal, Gota Kanal, Götacanal, Gotha Canal, Trollhaette Canal, Trollhatte Canal, Vaenermax, Vänermax.

Göta Canal, the Glossary

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See also

19th century in Sweden

Canals in Sweden

Canals opened in 1832

Government-owned companies of Sweden

Tourist attractions in Sweden

Works of Thomas Telford

References