Skåne County ( Skåne län ), also known as Scania County in English, is the southernmost administrative county or län, of Sweden, basically corresponding to the traditional province Scania ( which in Swedish is called Skåne ).

2800 BC and is known from about 3000 graves from Skåne to Uppland and Trøndelag.

It is the only known fortified round church in Skåne.

Helsingborgs IF have a long-standing rivalry ( known as the Skåne derby ) with fellow Scanian club Malmö FF, another major club in southern Sweden, and other Scanian clubs like Landskrona BoIS in particular.

The Kongemose culture is named after a location in western Zealand and its typical form is known from Denmark and Skåne.

* I Per Albinlinjens fotspår: Del 2 Sydvästra Skåne, Högberg, Leif, 2003, Skurup, L. Högberg, ISBN 91-973900-3-8

* I Per Albinlinjens fotspår: Del 3 Nordvästra Skåne, Högberg, Leif, 2005, Skurup, L. Högberg, ISBN 91-973900-7-0

Malmö Municipality () is a municipality in Skåne County in Sweden.

:" From Skåne ( Sconia ) of the Danes one reaches Sigtuna ( Sictonam ) or Birka after five days at sea, for they are indeed alike.

But by land from Skåne across the Geatish people ( Gothorum populos ) and cities Skara ( Scaranem ), Telgas and Birka, one reaches Sigtuna only after a full month.

During the disastrous reign of Christopher II ( 1319 – 1332 ), most of the country was pawned off to the counts ( except Skåne, which went to Sweden ) after peasant revolts and conflicts with the Church.

When the new county was established in 1997, it was decided to name it after the historical province Scania, or Skåne, as it is called in Swedish, so it was given the name Skåne län.

The political parties are represented by the following number of MPs from Skåne County after the Swedish general election, 2010:

He named it after his home province of Skåne in Sweden.

In the inventories of the Royal Armoury in Stockholm the term snapphanelås ( snaphance lock ) appears first in 1730, after the conquest of the former Danish provinces of Skåne, Halland and Blekinge in 1670s.

While still a youth, Orm is taken captive by a Viking party raiding the sheepfold of his father's farm in Skåne after an unprofitable campaign among the Wends.

They return to Skåne safely, just four days after Orm's farm has been attacked by outlaws, led by the former priest Rainald, who have abducted Ludmilla and other women.

Axel Pehrsson was a member of a farming family in Öja ( now in Ystad Municipality ) in Skåne, and though his father's death made it impossible for him to continue his schooling after the age of 14, he later completed some adult education courses in a folkhögskola ( English: " folk high school ").

In 1680, after bringing home Charles XI's Danish bride from Copenhagen, he was appointed governor-general of Scania ( Skåne ), but died a few weeks later.

Pilo left Denmark on 10 or 11 October and arrived in Stockholm in November, after having visited the Ramel family in Skåne.

The park's first director and one of its initiators was the legendary " carpenter from Skåne " Herman Lindholm, who managed it 1923 – 42.

Von Sydow was born Carl Adolf von Sydow, to a wealthy family, in Lund, Skåne, Sweden.

Scholars dispute both the year and country of his birth, although most now accept that he was born in 1637 in Helsingborg, Skåne, at the time part of Denmark ( but now part of Sweden ).

Skåne Regional Council ( Region Skåne ) is an evolved County Council, which was established in 1999 when the County Councils of the former counties were amalgamated.

* Herrestad Church, inaugurated in 1112, which makes it one of the oldest dated stone churches in Sweden ( the Holy Cross Church in Dalby, Skåne, Sweden was built " around " 1060 ).

In opposition to King Christian III, Count Christopher was proclaimed regent at the Ringsted Assembly ( landsting ), and at the Skåne Assembly ( landsting ) at St Liber's Hill at Lund Cathedral.

Lundgren was born in Kristianstad in Skåne.

He was born in Tossjö ( now in Ängelholm Municipality ) in Skåne and died at Ribbingsfors Manor in northern Västergötland.

Count Johan Christopher Toll ( 1 February 1743 – 21 May 1817 ), Swedish statesman and soldier, was born at Mölleröd in Scania ( now part of Hässleholm Municipality, Skåne County.

On April 2 the king ordered a general levy of 30, 000 men ; but while two army corps, under Armfelt and Toll, together with a British contingent of 10, 000 men under Moore, were stationed in Skåne and on the Norwegian border in anticipation of an attack from Denmark, which, at the instigation of Napoleon, had simultaneously declared war against Sweden, the little Finnish army was left altogether unsupported.

Baron Fabian von Fersen ( February 7, 1626 – July 30, 1677 ) was a Swedish soldier and statesman, who received appointments Field Marshal, and then Governor General of the Scanian lands, which included the provinces of Skåne, Halland and Blekinge in 1676.

After a devastating defeat, Denmark-Norway was forced to give up nearly half her territory to save the rest, the ceded lands comprising Blekinge, Bornholm, Bohuslän ( Båhuslen ), Scania ( Skåne ) and Trøndelag, as well as her claims to Halland.

Danish and French-Spanish troops began preparations for an invasion of Skåne in Sweden, but the plan was soon aborted, the war was instead directed to the Norwegian-Swedish border.

Region Skåne ( or formally Skåne läns landsting ) was created on January 1, 1999, by the amalgamation of the County councils of Malmöhus County and Kristianstad County and some of the tasks handled by Malmö Municipality.

:" Turning from the northern parts to the mouth of the Baltic Sea we first meet the Norwegians ( Nortmanni ), then the Danish region of Skåne ( Sconia ) stands out, and beyond these live the Geats ( Gothi ) for a long stretch all the way to Birka.

During the following century a long series of similar settlements were excavated from England to Poland and from Skåne in Sweden to northern France.

Covering 184 km², and with a maximum depth of 37 m, it supplies a considerable part of Skåne with fresh water by means of an 82-km long tunnel, the Bolmen Water Tunnel, built during the 1970s and 80s.

Similar provisions are applicable to the counties of Västra Götaland and Skåne during the trial period.

After convalescence, during which he meets Ylva, daughter of Harold, and presents her with a golden necklace given to him by Al-Mansur, Orm returns to Skåne.

He traveled about between Skåne and Stockholm during 1772-1775, until settling down in his childhood town of Nyköping in 1775.

The present municipality was created in three steps during the last nation-wide local government reform, and it has the largest area of the municipalities of Skåne County.

The same year, he began as a trainee at the Court of Appeal of Skåne and Blekinge ( Hovrätten över Skåne och Blekinge ), during which time he worked both at district courts and at the Court of Appeal itself.