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VESTERAS, or WESTERAS

This article appears in Volume V27, Page 1056 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: VAN-VIR
VESTERAS, or WESTERAS , a town and
bishop
 's see of Sweden,
capital
  of the
district
  (Jan) of Vestmanland, on a northern bay of Lake Malar, 6o m. N.W. by W. of Stockholm by rail. Pop. (1900) 11,999. It is a considerable industrial centre and an important lake port. Its
Gothic
 
cathedral
 , rebuilt by
Birger
  Jarl on an earlier site, and consecrated in 1271, was restored in 1850-186o, and again in 1896-1898. The episcopal library contains the valuable collection of books which Oxenstjerna, the
chancellor
  of Gustavus
Adolphus
 , brought away from Mainz near the end of the Thirty Years' War. A castle commands the town from an eminence; it was captured by Gustavus Vasa and rebuilt by him, and again in the 17th century, and remains the seat of the provincial government. Here Eric XIV., whose tomb is in the
cathedral
 ., was confined (1573-1575). Several national diets were held in this town, the most notable being those of 1527, when Gustavus Vasa formally introduced the Reformation into Sweden, and 1544, when he had the Swedish throne declared hereditary in his family. The
original
  name of the town was Vestra Aros (" western mouth "), in distinction from Ostra Aros, the former name of
Upsala
 .


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