Kävlinge is a locality

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...

 and the seat of Kävlinge Municipality

Kävlinge Municipality

Kävlinge Municipality is a municipality in Skåne County in southern Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Kävlinge.-Localities:...

, 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

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 with 8,550 inhabitants in 2005.

In 1996, a train containing large amounts of ammonia derailed and around 9,000 people had to be evacuated from the area. This was the biggest evacuation operation in Swedish history.

Near Kävlinge is the site of the Hög passage grave, a Bronze Age

Bronze Age

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 barrow covering a neolithic

Neolithic

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 burial chamber. Hög means mound from the Old Norse

Old Norse

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 word haugr for hill. The finds from the excavations are in the Lund University Historic Museum

Lund University

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. Stories tells that there are ghosts haunting the hill. But that´s just nothing more than stories.