Kristianstad

British  

/ kriˈʃanstɑːd, ˈkrɪstʃənˌstɑːd /

noun

1. a town in S Sweden: founded in 1614 as a Danish fortress, it was finally acquired by Sweden in 1678. Pop: 75 590 (2004 est)

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Example Sentences

This is revealed in a new study from Uppsala University, conducted in collaboration with infectious diseases doctors in Kristianstad and published in the scientific journal Emerging Infectious Diseases.

From Science Daily

"We were surprised that such high proportion of the relatively few voles that we caught were actually carrying a hantavirus that makes people ill. And this was in an area more than 500 km south of the previously known range of the virus," says Elin Economou Lundeberg, infectious diseases doctor at Kristianstad Central Hospital, who is one of the study's first authors.

From Science Daily

In January, a friend he had met online was arrested following a similar attack in nearby Kristianstad in which a pupil and a teacher were injured.

From BBC

On Monday evening, there were also reports of shootings in the same area in Kristianstad, the Swedish news agency TT reported.

From Seattle Times

This is Julia Ragnarsson, Herring’s partner of three years and the reason he is showing me around a tiny bucolic village, 20 minutes outside the town of Kristianstad.

From The Guardian