Arlanda
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English
Etymology
Proper noun
Arlanda
Swedish
Etymology
Stockholm's new international airport, planned since 1944, was named in a contest in 1958. The jury settled for Arlanda, which combined the suggested Arland with the verb landa (“to land”). The airport is situated in Ärlinghundra hundred (a court district), which in a document in 1316 was mentioned as provincia Aarland.
Proper noun
Arlanda
- Arlanda, the international airport north of Stockholm in Sweden