Virserum 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...

 situated in Hultsfred Municipality

Hultsfred Municipality

Hultsfred Municipality is a municipality in Kalmar County, in south-eastern Sweden. The seat is in the town of Hultsfred....

, Kalmar County

Kalmar County

Kalmar County is a county or län in southern Sweden. It borders the counties of Kronoberg, Jönköping, Blekinge and Östergötland. To the east in the Baltic Sea is the island Gotland....

, Sweden

Sweden

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 with 1,847 inhabitants in 2005. It was before 1971 a Köping

Köping

This article deals with the Swedish denomination for a market town. For the city, see Köping, Sweden. For the municipality, see Köping Municipality....

. Today the town has around 2000 inhabitants. The history of Virserum goes back to Middle Ages

Middle Ages

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, and in the 1950th the town was a center of furniture industry.
In the village Bösebo

Bösebo

Bösebo is a village placed 10 km east of Virserum in Hultsfred Municipality, Kalmar County, Småland, Sweden. It is placed where the three roads from Virserum, Mörlunda and Fågelfors are crossing. Bösebo is old, and there are marks of a settlement 2500 B.C. In the area around the village, Stone...

, 10 km east of Virserum you can find marks of a settlement 2500 B.C.