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VAsteras[ves´´turOs´] Pronunciation Key, city (1990 pop. 98,303), capital of VAstmanland co., E Sweden, a port on Lake MAlaren at the mouth of the Svartan River. It is the main center of the Swedish electrical goods industry; other manufactures include metal goods, textiles, and glass. Founded by 1100, VAsteras was one of Sweden's great medieval cities, with a cathedral (13th cent.) and a fortified castle (14th cent.). Eleven important diets convened there, notably the VAsteras Recess (1527), which created the Lutheran state church, and the diet of 1544, which made the Swedish throne hereditary.
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