Birka
Birka, on the island of Björkö in present-day Sweden, was an important Viking Age trading center which handled goods from Scandinavia as well as many parts of Continental Europe and the Orient.- Archaeological site
- …lies at an elevation of 5 metres (16 feet)
- …is also known as “Birka Viking Burial Mounds”
- Description: archaeological site on the island of Björkö in Sweden
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Ansgar monument (Björkö) and The Birka museum.
The Birka museum
Museum
The Birka museum is situated 300 metres southwest of Birka.
Björkö
Island
Björkö is an island in Lake Mälaren in eastern-central Sweden. Björkö is situated 1¼ km southeast of Birka.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lindby and Mälby.
Lindby
Hamlet
Lindby, Adelsö is a village in Ekerö Municipality, Stockholm County, southeastern Sweden.
Mälby
Hamlet
Mälby is a village in Ekerö Municipality, Stockholm County, southeastern Sweden.
Hovgården
Hamlet
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Latitude
59.33273° or 59° 19′ 58″ north
Longitude
17.54494° or 17° 32′ 42″ east
Open location code
9FFV8GMV+3X
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OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Birka” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Birka”
- Albanian: “Birka”
- Arabic: “بيركا”
- Aragonese: “Birka”
- Arpitan: “Birka”
- Asturian: “Birka”
- Azerbaijani: “Birka”
- Basque: “Birka”
- Bavarian: “Birka”
- Belarusian: “Бірка”
- Breton: “Birka”
- Bulgarian: “Бирка”
- Catalan: “Birka”
- Chinese: “比尔卡”
- Chinese: “比爾卡”
- Corsican: “Birka”
- Croatian: “Birka”
- Czech: “Birka”
- Danish: “Birka”
- Dutch: “Birka”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بيركا”
- Esperanto: “Birka”
- Estonian: “Birka”
- Finnish: “Birka”
- French: “Birka”
- Friulian: “Birka”
- Galician: “Birka”
- Georgian: “ბირკა”
- German: “Birka”
- Hebrew: “בירקה”
- Hebrew: “התיישבות ויקינגים”
- Hindi: “बिर्का”
- Hungarian: “Birka”
- Icelandic: “Birka”
- Ido: “Birka”
- Indonesian: “Birka”
- Interlingua: “Birka”
- Interlingue: “Birka”
- Irish: “Birka”
- Italian: “Birka”
- Japanese: “ビルカ”
- Jèrriais: “Birka”
- Kongo: “Birka”
- Korean: “비르카”
- Latin: “Birca”
- Latvian: “Birka (pilsēta)”
- Latvian: “Birka”
- Ligurian: “Birka”
- Limburgan: “Birka”
- Lithuanian: “Birka”
- Low German: “Birka”
- Luxembourgish: “Birka”
- Maithili: “बिर्का”
- Malagasy: “Birka”
- Malay: “Birka”
- Malayalam: “ബിർക”
- Maori: “Birka”
- Maori: “Pirika”
- Minangkabau: “Birka”
- Mingrelian: “ბირკა”
- Neapolitan: “Birka”
- Nepali: “बिर्का”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Birka”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Birka”
- Norwegian: “Birka”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Birka”
- Persian: “بیرکا”
- Picard: “Birka”
- Piemontese: “Birka”
- Polish: “Birka”
- Portuguese: “Birka”
- Portuguese: “Borca”
- Romanian: “Birka”
- Romansh: “Birka”
- Russian: “Бирка”
- Sardinian: “Birka”
- Scots: “Birka”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Birka”
- Serbian: “Birka”
- Serbian: “Бирка”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Birka”
- Sicilian: “Birka”
- Slovak: “Birka”
- Slovenian: “Birka”
- Spanish: “Birka”
- Swahili: “Birka”
- Swedish: “Birka”
- Swedish: “Svarta jorden”
- Swiss German: “Birka”
- Turkish: “Birka”
- Ukrainian: “Бірка”
- Venetian: “Birka”
- Vietnamese: “Birka”
- Vlaams: “Birka”
- Volapük: “Birka”
- Walloon: “Birka”
- Welsh: “Birka”
- Western Frisian: “Birka”
- Wolof: “Birka”
- Zulu: “Birka”
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