Götaland with the Swedish acquisitions of 1645 and 1658 in darker green: Gotland, Blekinge, Halland, and Skåne from Denmark, and Bohuslän from Norway ( then under Danish rule ).

It is made up of ten provinces, based loosely on the area originally under the jurisdiction of the Göta Court of Appeals ( established in 1634 ), to which the Scanian lands, Gotland and Bohuslän were added in 1658 – 79:

She left Sweden in 1811 under the name of " Countess of Gotland ", officially because of her health, and returned to Paris.

The bishoprics became suffragans to the Archbishopric of Riga under the mother city of Visby on Gotland.

In late Fall of 1675 the Swedish fleet under Gustaf Otto Stenbock put to sea, but only got as far as Stora Karlsö off Gotland before it had to turn back to Stockholm, beset by cold and stormy weather, disease, and loss of vital equipment.

A Danish fleet of 20 ships under admiral Niels Juel put to sea in March 1676, and on April 29 his forces landed on Gotland, which promptly surrendered.

The Ardre image stones were re-used as paving under the wooden floors of the local church in the Ardre parish of Gotland.

An invasion army under Konrad von Jungingen, the Grand Master of the Order, conquered the island in 1398, destroying Visby and driving the Victual Brothers out of Gotland.

Gotland is under a spell and under water during the day and out of water only during the night, a spell that is broken by Þieluar lighting a fire on the Island.

This battle took place on 30 – 31 May 1564 between the islands of Gotland and Öland, between a fleet of Allied ships, the Danes under Herluf Trolle and the Lübeckers under, and a Swedish fleet of 23 or more ships under.

Already at the beginning of the 20th century, the archaeologist and architectural historian Emil Ekhoff argued that the church was considerably later than the stave church in Hemse on Gotland, fragments of which he had found under the floor of the current Romanesque stone church during an 1896 excavation, and other stave churches that he had recorded either archaeologically or through written sources.

From bridgeheads in Stralsund ( 1628 ) and Pomerania ( 1630 ), the Swedish army advanced to the south of the Holy Roman Empire, and in a side theater of the war deprived Denmark – Norway of Danish Estonia, Jämtland, Gotland, Halland, Härjedalen, Idre and Särna, became exempted from the Sound Dues, and established claims to Bremen-Verden, all of which was formalized in the Treaty of Brömsebro ( 1645 ).

The result of this defeat proved disastrous for Denmark – Norway: in the Second treaty of Brömsebro ( 1645 ) Denmark ceded to Sweden the Norwegian provinces Jemtland, Herjedalen and Älvdalen as well as the Danish islands of Gotland and Øsel.

The war began in 1361, when Danish king Valdemar Atterdag conquered Scania, Öland, and Gotland with the major Hanseatic town Visby.

When the Danish nobility opposed his rule and refused to ratify his choice of Bogislaw IX, Duke of Pomerania as the next King of Denmark, he left Denmark and settled at his castle Visborg in Gotland, apparently a kind of a “ royal strike ” which led to his deposition by the National Councils of Denmark and Sweden in 1439.

* Denmark-Norway ceded the Norwegian provinces of Jämtland, Härjedalen and Idre & Särna as well as the Danish Baltic Sea islands of Gotland and Ösel.

On 30 May 1564 a battle broke out between the Swedish navy and the Danish – Lübeck navy between Gotland and Öland.

Denmark – Norway ceded to Sweden the Norwegian provinces of Jemtland, Herjedalen and Idre & Serna and the strategically located Danish islands of Gotland in the center of the Baltic and Øsel in the Baltic Sea.

* During the first week of August in Sweden, the Medieval Week of Wisby in Gotland is held each year.

The ice then extended from the north down to the northern tip of Gotland, with small ice free areas on its either side, and the east coast of the Baltic Sea was covered by an ice sheet ca.

After this, strong southern winds pushed the ice further into the north, and much of the waters north of Gotland were again free of ice, which had then packed against the shores of southern Finland.

Recent excavations at the Viking harbor town of Fröjel, Gotland in Sweden have revealed a small number of rock crystal lenses known as the Visby lenses.

The Baltic island of Gotland was also in a better strategic position for Russian-Byzantine trade, and was gaining eminence as a mercantile stronghold.

Noteworthy here is that the biggest islands in the Baltic Sea, Öland and Gotland, were part of the diocese of Linköping in the Middle Ages, covering also Östergötland and eastern Småland.

It was an important seaport serving the Vistula River bay on the early medieval Baltic Sea trade routes which led from Birka in the north to the island of Gotland and to Visby in the Baltic Sea.

Gotland County ( Gotlands län ) is a county or län of Sweden.

Gotland is located in the Baltic Sea to the east of Öland, and is the largest of Sweden's islands.

Counties are usually sub-divided into municipalities, but Gotland County only consists of one municipality: Gotland Municipality.

Gotland County at present is unique in Sweden as there is no county council.

However, for Gotland County, there is a County Administrative Board which is a national authority.

For the culture and history of the island, see article Gotland.

See List of Gotland Governors.

Gotland is the only Swedish county that does not have a county council, as well as having only one municipality and one telephony area code.

The County of Gotland consists of a single municipality and as there is no separate entity for a County Council, those tasks are handled by the municipality.

During a trial period the County Council provisions for Gotland has been evolved to provisions for a Regional Council, meaning that it has assumed certain tasks from the County Administrative Board.

Gotland County inherited its coat of arms from the province of Gotland.

Götaland, south Sweden, with the island of Gotland in the east, a possible colony of the Goths.

The dark pink area is the island of Gotland.

The settlement in today's Poland may correspond to the introduction of Scandinavian burial traditions, such as the stone circles and the stelae especially common on the island of Gotland and other parts of southern Sweden.

The first Scandinavian documents mentioning a " land of the Finns " are two runestones: ( Söderby, Sweden, with the inscription finlont ( U 582 †), Gotland with the inscription finlandi ( G 319 M ) dating from the 11th century.

It is possible that the Jutes are a related people to the Geats and a Gothic people as it is mentioned in the Gutasaga that some inhabitants of Gotland left for mainland Europe.