måndag 29 september 2008

Skåne




Skåne, the most southern province of Sweden, sometimes called the "bloodiest place in Europe" cause of its history. No other place have ever been occupied as many times as Skåne, as it switch country between Sweden and Denmark. The accent of the people in Skåne is very different from other accents in Sweden and have many similarities with danish. In Denmark some people call the scanian accent for "eastern danish" while its sometimes (more often) is referred as "southern swedish". Even today there is danish historians, scientists and even a politician that say it would be more natural if Skåne again would belong to Denmark, some people in Stockholm actually agree with this.



However, Skåne is the province were Sweden's third largest city is located, Malmö wich is connected to the capital of Denmark, Copenhagen, via the Öresund Bridge (Öresundsbron) wich is the longest bridge in Europe. The distance between Sweden and Denmark in this area is sometimes so small that its possible to the the neignoring country from the other side, not lookint that far away at all, and between Helsingborg, Sweden and Helsingör, Denmark the trips with ferries only take about 15 minutes. Many swedish people preffer to work in Copenhagen cause the money they win there is more, and many danish people preffer to live in Sweden cause the apartments and houses are cheaper there. This comminucation over the sea has developed almost like a city, and sometimes Malmö+Copenhagen is called Örestad (Öre-town).

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