City · Sweden

Stockholm

Swedish capital built on fourteen islands, a city of design and innovation.

Founding, year 1252

Themes: design, innovation, water, sustainability.

All of Sweden in the Atlas

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The origin

What the date says

Milestone
Founding
What happened
First mentioned in 1252, it grew as a defensive bastion of the regent Birger Jarl on the strait between Lake Mälaren and the Baltic Sea.
Year
1252
Source
Historical documentation
Note
First mentioned in 1252.

Only the year is documented: if it falls between January 21 and February 21, the sign could be the previous one.

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Affinity is a symbolic reading from the Chinese zodiac tradition, not a measurement: it compares the sign of the year you were born with that of each entry's year of origin.