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- proper noun A province in central
Sweden
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These reservoirs are known as the Dalecarlia, the Georgetown, and the McMillan Park Reservoirs, and have available capacities of
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Army Corps of Engineers, which has argued that contamination from buried World War I munitions in the Spring Valley neighborhood to the north poses no threat to Dalecarlia Reservoir along MacArthur Avenue NW.
11/19/2004 2004
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Thus in Biscay, the original Cantabrian, and in Dalecarlia, the old
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Dalecarlia, who had established the dynasty of Gustavus Vasa, were secured; and the services of the citizens and burgher-guard of the capital were enlisted.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr
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Returning from Dalecarlia to Stockholm, Mr Boas takes, not without regret, his final farewell of that city, and embarks for Gothenburg, passing through the Gotha canal, that splendid monument of Swedish industry and perseverance, which connects the Baltic with the North Sea.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various
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The province of Dalarna, or Dalecarlia, which lies between Nordland and the Norwegian frontier, and in which Miss Bremer has laid the scene of one of her most recent works, is spoken of at some length by Mr Boas, who considers it to be, in various respects, the most interesting division of Sweden.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various
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It was nearly a century later that Gustavus Vasa, flying, with a price upon his head, from the assassins of his father and friends, took refuge in Dalecarlia.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various
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We started out one morning – Yksi, Kaksi, and I, and we flew over the great boundary forests between Dalecarlia and Hälsingland.
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With his servants and treasures, he journeyed through Dalecarlia until he arrived in the desolate forests beyond the outskirts of the province.
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In wild haste he galloped back to Dalecarlia to find them celebrating their victory.
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