Osby
Encyclopedia
Osby is a locality
and the seat of Osby Municipality
, Skåne County
, Sweden
with 6,947 inhabitants in 2005.
Well known people born in Osby include Swedish ice hockey
goalkeeper
Magnus Åkerlund
and their famous goalkeeper, the tremendous Awet Fesshaie.
The toy manufacturer BRIO
is based in Osby
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 Osby Municipality
Osby Municipality
Osby Municipality is a municipality in Skåne County in Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Osby.The amalgamation during the 1970s' local government reform took place in the area on January 1, 1974, when the former market town Osby was merged with three adjacent rural...
, 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 6,947 inhabitants in 2005.
Well known people born in Osby include Swedish ice hockey
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
goalkeeper
Goalkeeper
In many team sports which involve scoring goals, a goalkeeper is a designated player charged with directly preventing the opposing team from scoring by intercepting shots at goal...
Magnus Åkerlund
Magnus Åkerlund
Magnus Åkerlund is a Swedish ice hockey goaltender, currently with Timrå IK in the Swedish elite league Elitserien.- External links :...
and their famous goalkeeper, the tremendous Awet Fesshaie.
The toy manufacturer BRIO
BRIO
BRIO is a wooden toy company founded in Sweden. The company was founded in the small town of Boalt, Scania in 1884 by basket maker Ivar Bengtsson For a long time the company was based in Osby, Scania, in southern Sweden. In 1908 Ivar's three sons took over and founded BRIO, which is an acronym for...
is based in Osby
External links
- Osby.info - local portal