CChronica Maps

Visby: History, Former Names & Timeline

Hanseatic town on Gotland and hub of medieval Baltic trade; its walls survive intact.

Map showing Visby in 1300Visby
Border map for 1300. See Europe in 1300.

Explore Visby in the interactive map

Former names of Visby

FromNameNote
AD 900Visby

Timeline of Visby

YearEvent
1161Gotlanders and German merchants agree trading privileges
1361Valdemar IV of Denmark takes Visby

Who ruled Visby

Derived from the border maps; each row runs until the next recorded border change.

PeriodState
500 BC–599Unclaimed / no data
600–799Guta
800–999Unclaimed / no data
1000–1299Sweden
1300–1399Unclaimed / no data
1400–1491Kalmar Union
1492–1499Unclaimed / no data
1500–1599Kalmar Union
1600–1649Denmark-Norway
1650–1814Sweden
1815–1879Unclaimed / no data
1880–1913Sweden–Norway
1914–1919Sweden
1920–1937Unclaimed / no data
1938–1944Sweden
1945–todayUnclaimed / no data

Landmarks in and around Visby

Nearby cities