Skultuna
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Skultuna is a locality situated in Västerås Municipality
Västerås Municipality
Västerås Municipality is a municipality in Västmanland County in central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Västerås....

, Västmanland County
Västmanland County
Västmanland County is a county or län in central Sweden. It borders to the counties of Södermanland, Örebro, Gävleborg, Dalarna and Uppsala...

, 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 3,249 inhabitants in 2005.

Skultuna is, in fact, Sweden's oldest industry and has an early 17th century brassworks, Skultuna Messingsbruk, and also two runestones.

Skultuna was also the birthplace of the author and songwriter, Julia Nyberg
Julia Nyberg
Julia Kristina Nyberg , was a Swedish poet and songwriter. Nyberg grew up as the adoptive daughter of a mill owner, named Adlerwald, in the parish of Skultuna in Västmanland County...

(1784-1854).
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