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5 unusual facts about Åby


Aaby, Aarhus

Its name derives from the Old Norse for "village on a river" (Old Norse á, river, and býr, village) and is identical in meaning with Aby in Lincolnshire in England.

ABY

Ashburys railway station in the United Kingdom, from its National Rail code

Aby

The villages of Åby in Sweden and Aaby in Denmark have names of identical origin and meaning.

ABY

Southwest Georgia Regional Airport in Albany, Georgia, United States, from its IATA airport code

Åby, Norrköping

The locality's name means "village on a river" (Old Norse á, river, and býr, village) and is identical in meaning with Aby in Lincolnshire, England.


Åby Stora Pris

Åby Stora Pris (literally "Åby Grand Prize") is an annual Group One harness event for trotters that is held at Åby Racetrack in Mölndal, 10 km south of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Aby Warburg

Horst Bredekamp, Michael Diers, Charlotte Schoell-Glass (eds.): Aby Warburg. Akten des internat. Symposiums Hamburg 1990. Weinheim 1991.

Georges Didi-Huberman, L'image survivante: histoire de l'art et temps des fantômes selon Aby Warburg.

Albany Airport

Southwest Georgia Regional Airport in Albany, Georgia, United States (FAA/IATA: ABY)

Copiad

In April 1995, Copiad won Olympiatravet at Åby and Forus Open in Norway, before repeating the previous year's victories in Oslo Grand Prix and Elitloppet.

Dessa

Dessa is a founding member of The Boy Sopranos, an almost all-female a cappella group, with frequent collaborators Jessy Greene, Aby Wolf and others.

Laurel Black Cats

Though the Jackson Metro Baseball League (JMBL) had began to form in the state, Jones kept the Black Cats as an independent team playing local community teams such as Bay Springs, MS, Heidelberg,MS, Paulding,MS, and Meridian, MS. After remaining rivals with the Hattiesburg Black Sox for half of a century, the rivalry would come to an end in under Jones due to a personal disagreement between Hattiesburg’s owner Trey Aby.

Mjölnir

Runestones depicting Thor's hammer include runestones U 1161 in Altuna, Sö 86 in Åby, Sö 111 in Stenkvista, Sö 140 in Jursta, Vg 113 in Lärkegapet, Öl 1 in Karlevi, DR 26 in Laeborg, DR 48 in Hanning, DR 120 in Spentrup, and DR 331 in Gårdstånga.

Ödeshög Municipality

Noteworthy are: Rök Church from 1845 (outside which the Rök Runestone is standing), Stora Åby Church, from the 1750s, with several older artifacts (baptismal font, triptych); and Ödeshögs Church with a medieval foundation.

Swedish Trotting Criterium

The first five editions was raced at Jägersro, before the hostesship was altered between Solvalla and Jägersro until 1954, when Åby was added to the mix.


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