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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 494 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MALMO , a seaport of See also:

Sweden, See also:chief See also:town of the See also:district (lan) of Malmohus, on a small See also:bay of the See also:Sound, 384 M. S.S.W. of See also:Stockholm by See also:rail. Pop. (1800); 38,054; (1900), 60,857. It is connected with See also:Copenhagen, 171 m. W. by N., by See also:steam-See also:ferry, the Sound being kept open in See also:winter by an See also:ice-breaker. It is also the first important station in Sweden on the See also:Berlin-Stockholm route, which crosses the See also:sea between Sassnitz in Riigen and Trelleborg, 20 M. S.E. of Malmo. The town, which stands upon a level See also:plain, formerly had strong fortifications, of which only the citadel (Malmohus) remains; in it the See also:earl of See also:Bothwell was imprisoned by See also:Frederick II. of See also:Denmark for some See also:time after his departure from See also:Scotland in 1567. The town-See also:hall (1546, largely restored in 1864) contains a handsome chamber, the Knutssal, formerly used by the See also:council of the gild of Canute. The hall fronts the central square (Stortorg) which is planted with trees and contains a See also:colossal statue of See also:Charles X. by Johan See also:Helenus Borjeson (b. 1835) erected in 1896.

The most notablechurch is that of St. See also:

Peter (Peterkyrka), dating in See also:part from 1319. Malmo is second to Stockholm as an See also:industrial centre. There are breweries and large See also:works for the manufacture of machinery, among which may. be mentioned the Kockum See also:mechanical works, with yards for the construction of vessels of See also:war, and others; of See also:cotton and woollen goods, gloves, See also:chocolate, sweetmeats and See also:tobacco. A large export See also:trade is carried on in See also:butter and other agricultural produce, and matches. See also:Coal is the chief import. The harborage includes an See also:outer See also:harbour of 22 ft. See also:depth, and two inner basins admitting vessels of 21 ft. See also:draught, with dry See also:dock and patent slip. Malmo returns four members to the second chamber of the Riksdag (See also:parliament). Malmo (Malmhauge, Malmey, Malmoye, Malmoughe), some-times called See also:Ancona Scanorum or Ellenbogen, first appears in See also:history about the See also:middle of the 13th See also:century. During the Hanseatic See also:period it was the most important commercial town on the Sound, but in the 16th and 17th centuries greatly lost ground owing to the decay of its See also:herring See also:fisheries and the rise of its See also:rival, Copenhagen. Its See also:modern prosperity is largely due to the enterprise of Frans See also:Snell, one of its merchants in the second See also:half of the 18th century, who first constructed the harbour.

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