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Lund cathedral Picture of the cathedral of Lund taken in/from Lund (Sweden) Date: Sep-2007 Camera: Sony DSC-H5 Comments: Lund is a city in Skone, southern Sweden. The town has 76,188 (As of 2005)[1] inhabitants and is the seat of Lund Municipality, Skone County. The city is believed to have been founded around 990, when the Scanian lands belonged to Denmark. It soon became the Christian center of Northern Europe with an archbishop and with the towering Lund Cathedral, built in 1103. In 1134 Lund became the capital of Denmark, a title taken by Copenhagen in 1416. Lund University, established 1666, is today one of Scandinavia´s largest institutions for education and research
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