Svealand
Stockholm County
Ekerö Municipality

Birka

Birka, on the island of Björkö in present-day , was an important Viking Age trading center which handled goods from as well as many parts of Continental Europe and the Orient.
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Wikipedia
  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: archaeological site on the island of Björkö in Sweden
  • Also known as: “Birka Viking Burial Mounds”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Ansgar monument (Björkö) and The Birka museum.

Peak
Photo: Nordelch, CC BY 2.5.
is a peak.

Museum
Photo: Holger.Ellgaard, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is situated 300 metres southwest of Birka.

Island
Photo: powi, CC BY 2.0.
is an in in eastern-central . It is mostly famous for housing the excavation site Birka populated c. AD 750-975, together with on declared a World Heritage Site in 1993. is situated 1¼ km southeast of Birka.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lindby and Mälby.

Hamlet
Photo: Holger.Ellgaard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, Adelsö is a village in , , southeastern .

Hamlet
Photo: Holger.Ellgaard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village in , , southeastern .

Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is an archaeological site on the island of in in central-eastern . During the Viking Age, the centre of the prospering Mälaren Valley was the settlement Birka, founded in the mid-8th century and abandoned in the late 10th century and located on the island Björkö just south of Adelsö. is situated 3 km north of Birka.

Birka

Latitude
59.33273° or 59° 19′ 58″ north
Longitude
17.54494° or 17° 32′ 42″ east
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
Open location code
9FFV8GMV+3X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 281207400
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Geo­Names ID
6930700
Wiki­data ID
Q208177
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Birka” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Birka”
  • Albanian: “Birka”
  • Arabic: “بيركا”
  • Aragonese: “Birka”
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  • Bavarian: “Birka”
  • Belarusian: “Бірка”
  • Breton: “Birka”
  • Bulgarian: “Бирка”
  • Catalan: “Birka”
  • Chinese: “比尔卡”
  • Chinese: “比爾卡”
  • Corsican: “Birka”
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  • Dutch: “Birka”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيركا”
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  • Estonian: “Birka”
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  • Galician: “Birka”
  • Georgian: “ბირკა”
  • German: “Birka”
  • Hebrew: “בירקה”
  • Hebrew: “התיישבות ויקינגים”
  • Hindi: “बिर्का”
  • Hungarian: “Birka”
  • Icelandic: “Birka”
  • Ido: “Birka”
  • Indonesian: “Birka”
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  • Italian: “Birka”
  • Japanese: “ビルカ”
  • Kongo: “Birka”
  • Korean: “비르카”
  • Latin: “Birca”
  • Latvian: “Birka (pilsēta)”
  • Latvian: “Birka”
  • Ligurian: “Birka”
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  • Lithuanian: “Birka”
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  • Luxembourgish: “Birka”
  • Maithili: “बिर्का”
  • Malagasy: “Birka”
  • Malay: “Birka”
  • Malayalam: “ബിർക”
  • Maori: “Birka”
  • Maori: “Pirika”
  • Minangkabau: “Birka”
  • Mingrelian: “ბირკა”
  • Narom: “Birka”
  • Neapolitan: “Birka”
  • Nepali: “बिर्का”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Birka”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Birka”
  • Norwegian: “Birka”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Birka”
  • Persian: “بیرکا”
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  • Polish: “Birka”
  • Portuguese: “Birka”
  • Portuguese: “Borca”
  • Romanian: “Birka”
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  • Russian: “Бирка”
  • Sardinian: “Birka”
  • Scots: “Birka”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Birka”
  • Serbian: “Birka”
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  • Swahili: “Birka”
  • Swedish: “Birka”
  • Swedish: “Svarta jorden”
  • Swiss German: “Birka”
  • Turkish: “Birka”
  • Ukrainian: “Бірка”
  • Venetian: “Birka”
  • Vietnamese: “Birka”
  • Vlaams: “Birka”
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  • Walloon: “Birka”
  • Welsh: “Birka”
  • Western Frisian: “Birka”
  • Wolof: “Birka”
  • Zulu: “Birka”

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