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Kalmar

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Kalmar (käl`mär), city (1990 pop. 30,820), capital of Kalmar co. (1995 pop. 144,060), SE Sweden, on the Kalmarsund (an arm of the Baltic Sea) opposite Öland Island. It is a commercial, industrial, and tourist center and is connected by ferry with Öland. Manufactures include machinery, matches, glass, processed food, and ships. It has been an important trade center since the 8th cent. The Kalmar Union Kalmar Union, combination of the three crowns of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, effected at Kalmar, Sweden, by Queen Margaret I in 1397. Because the kingship was elective in all three countries, the union could not be maintained by inheritance.
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 was negotiated there in 1397. Kalmar has a 13th-century castle, Kalmar Slott, which withstood numerous sieges in the Danish-Swedish wars of the 16th-17th cent. The name is also spelled Calmar.
Kalmar
a port in SE Sweden, partly on the mainland and partly on a small island in the Sound of Kalmar opposite ?land: scene of the signing of the Union of Kalmar, which united Sweden, Denmark, and Norway into a single monarchy (1397--1523). Pop.: 60 734 (2004 est.)


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Umea University, Umea, Sweden; ([dagger]) Kalmar University, Kalmar, Sweden; ([double dagger]) Kalmar Hospital, Kalmar, Sweden; ([section]) Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; and ([paragraph]) University of California, Irvine, California, USA
Kalmar Rough Terrain Cargo Handlers made up about half of the 567th's barged equipment, along with a dozen other pieces--40-ton cranes, trucks, trailers and bull dozers, said Sgt.
In the December 2001 Limnology and Oceanography, Karin Rengefors of Lund University and Catherine Legrand of the University of Kalmar, both in Sweden, report that the freshwater dinoflagellate Peridinium aciculiferum also produces at least one toxin.
 
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