Jämtland

Jamtland is a historical province ( landskap Swedish ) in Sweden.

Geography

The province is bordered on the west by Norway, Lapland in the north, to the east and to the south by Ångermanland Härjedalen and Medelpad. On its territory lies the modern province of Jämtland County. Jämtland is the second largest province in Sweden. In a north-south direction, the landscape stretches 315 km and the largest east - west distance is 250 kilometers. The western boundary is the Scandinavian Mountains ( Scandes ), the south here from north stretches with foothills in the south-eastern parts of Jämtland. The massif is cut by several large valleys. The highest point of Jämtland, with 1,743 meters above sea level, is located in the Swedish part of the mountain massif Storsylen, which rises on the Norwegian side up to 1,762 meters. The lowest point of the landscape in the eastern part only 35 meters above the sea.

Waters

Approximately 8 per cent of Jämtland's total area occupied by water bodies and two major rivers criss-cross the landscape, Ljungan and Indalsälven. Both have their source in the Scandes and flow in an easterly direction to the southern portion of the Gulf of Bothnia. In the northern parts of Jämtland mountains 900-1000 meters high. Start here some important tributaries of the Ångermanälven which primarily lies in Ångermanland. Another waterway begins its journey to the sea of ​​the western side of the mountain range. He reached across the lakes and Blåsjön Kvarnbergsvattnet the sink Ströms Vattudal, from where he runs as Faxälven to its confluence with the Ångermanälven.

In the central part is Sweden's fifth largest lake, large lake, with an area of 464 km ² and an average water depth of 17.3 m.

Towns

The main towns are Östersund, Brunflo, Krokom and Strömsund. Kallsjön, large lake and Ströms Vattudal are the largest lakes, Indalsälven and Ljungan the largest rivers. Especially in the western Jämtland is dominated by numerous smaller mountain ranges. Among the more significant are Lunndörrsfjällen, Anarisfjällen and Oviksfjällen and the mountains around Åre, which are known as a ski center.

History

Cultural Heritage

The park was found in Sösjön in Sami place Njaarke over 1000 years old traces of Sami settlement. The seeds used this area as hunting grounds.

Language

The Jämtland was originally a particularly strong from the Empire Swedish divergent dialect.

Regional identity

History involves the cultural and linguistic bonds mainly to the Norwegian Trøndelag have always been stronger than the surrounding Swedish provinces. Based on this there since the 1960s with the Republic of Jämtland an independence movement that has never occurred violently for their goals.

Landscape symbols

• Animal: moose
• Flower: Black nigritella
• Fish: trout
• Birds: hawk