Hyllinge
Encyclopedia
Hyllinge is the second largest locality
situated in Åstorp Municipality
, Skåne County
, Sweden
with 2,002 inhabitants in 2005.
The settlement grew up in the 19th century around a coal
mine
. The first Swedish cases of the Spanish flu
were detected here in 1918.
Urban areas in Sweden
Urban area is a common English translation of the Swedish term tätort. The official term in English, used by Statistics Sweden, is, however, locality. There are 1,940 localities in Sweden . They could be compared with census-designated places in the United States.A tätort in Sweden has a minimum of...
situated in Åstorp Municipality
Åstorp Municipality
Åstorp Municipality is a municipality in Skåne County in southern Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Åstorp.In 1974 "old" Åstorp was amalgamated with Kvidinge to form the present municipality.-Localities:There are 3 urban areas in Åstorp Municipality.In the table they are...
, Skåne County
Skåne County
Skåne County is the southernmost administrative county or län, of Sweden, basically corresponding to the historical province Scania. It borders the counties of Halland, Kronoberg and Blekinge. The seat of residence for the Skåne Governor is the town of Malmö...
, Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
with 2,002 inhabitants in 2005.
The settlement grew up in the 19th century around a coal
Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams. The harder forms, such as anthracite coal, can be regarded as metamorphic rock because of later exposure to elevated temperature and pressure...
mine
Mining
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, from an ore body, vein or seam. The term also includes the removal of soil. Materials recovered by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron, uranium, coal, diamonds, limestone, oil shale, rock...
. The first Swedish cases of the Spanish flu
Spanish flu
The 1918 flu pandemic was an influenza pandemic, and the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus . It was an unusually severe and deadly pandemic that spread across the world. Historical and epidemiological data are inadequate to identify the geographic origin...
were detected here in 1918.