Skellefteå is a city and the seat of Skellefteå Municipality in Västerbotten County, Sweden with 32,425 inhabitants in 2005.
Skellefteå is believed to have been inhabited from around 1000 AD by the Sami people and possibly partly Finnish people.
The name Skellefteå, was recorded spelt Skelepht in 1327, but its origin remains unknown.
Archeologists have found that people were living in the area as far back as 8000 years ago.
In the 14th century at...
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Skellefteå is a city and the seat of Skellefteå Municipality in Västerbotten County, Sweden with 32,425 inhabitants in 2005.
Skellefteå is believed to have been inhabited from around 1000 AD by the Sami people and possibly partly Finnish people.
The name Skellefteå, was recorded spelt Skelepht in 1327, but its origin remains unknown.
Archeologists have found that people were living in the area as far back as 8000 years ago.
In the 14th century attempts were made to Christianize Skellefteå. Norrland was not Christianized until several hundred years after the rest of Sweden, and northern cities such as Skellefteå were largely unexplored. The reason for the sudden awakened interest was the fishing of salmon in the areas around Skellefteå, which was sparked by an increased demand of fish, due to stricter enforcement of the annual month long fasting by the Catholic Church whereby meat was substituted by fish.
The city itself is much younger, and in fact one of the youngest cities of...
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