Lövsta, Gotland

Lövsta (also known as Roma kyrkby) is a locality on the Swedish island of Gotland, with 261 inhabitants in 2010.[1]

Lövsta

Roma kyrkby
Roma Church, located in Roma kyrkby/Lövsta
Lövsta
Coordinates: 57°32′N 18°26′E
CountrySweden
ProvinceGotland
CountyGotland County
MunicipalityGotland Municipality
Area
 • Total0.89 km2 (0.34 sq mi)
Population
 (31 December 2010)[1]
 • Total261
 • Density292/km2 (760/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

In 1995 the locality known as Roma was divided by Statistics Sweden into a part with the tentative name of "Roma kyrkby" (pop. 277) and the remaining part that was referred to as Roma (pop. 902). It was given the name "Romakloster" as a postal address to avoid confusion with the Italian capital.[2] Some confusion is caused by the fact that Lövsta/Roma kyrkby has been referred to as "Roma" in the statistical figures since 2000.[3]

The medieval Roma Church is in Lövsta.[4] As of 2019, Roma Church belongs to Roma parish in Romaklosters pastorat.[5][6]

Notes
  1. "Tätorternas landareal, folkmängd och invånare per km2 2005 och 2010" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. 14 December 2011. Archived from the original on 10 January 2012. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
  2. Tätorter 1995, p. 30 (population; see footnote for the tentative character of the names), 62 (list of new localities since 1990)
  3. Cf. the population figures from 1995 for Roma kyrkby/Roma (277 people) and Romakloster (902) given in Tätorter 1995, p. 30, and Tätorter 2000, p. 27.
  4. Lagerlöf, Erland; Svahnström, Gunnar (1973). Gotlands kyrkor [Gotland's Churches] (in Swedish). Stockholm: Rabén & Sjögren. pp. 223–224. ISBN 91-29-41035-5. SELIBR 7232718.
  5. "Församlingar på Gotland". www.svenskakyrkan.se. Church of Sweden. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
  6. "Visby stifts indelning 2018". www.svenskakyrkan.se. Church of Sweden. Retrieved 13 January 2019.

References
  • Tätorter 1995 (Statistiska meddelanden. Serie Be, Stockholm: SCB, Programmet för regional planering och naturresurser, 1996. Beställningsnummer Be 16 SM 9601.
  • Tätorter 2000. Sveriges Officiella statistik. Statistiska meddelanden Serie MI. MI 38 SM 0101. Stockholm: SCB, 2002.


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