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Karlskrona

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Karlskrona (kärlskr`nä), city (1990 pop. 31,100), capital of Blekinge co., SE Sweden, on the Baltic Sea. It is a seaport and fishing center with a large modern port. The city has been the headquarters of the Swedish navy since 1679 and has many service-connected industries. Manufactures include ships, plastics, atomic reactors, telephones, canned goods, porcelain, and electrical bulbs. A naval museum is in the city. A variant spelling is Carlscrona.


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5] lamps), Supercity (an interactive program that allowed citizens to re-create the city of Karlskrona in virtual space), and Super-channel (do-it-yourself CNN for local communities, who can broadcast their own shows via Internet TV).
5 Probably by Fredrik Henrik af Chapman (1721-1808) whose work on the other side of the Gulf of Bothnia at Karlskrona was shown in AR December 1998, pp49-53.
Evocative of eighteenth-century naval warehouses and ropewalks, this maritime museum in Karlskrona forms a dignified addition to a historically resonant setting.
 
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