The origin of Umea

Umea city is a young city. But it is not only due to the big proportion of young people that can be found here. I is also because it was founded not very long ago, if we compared with other main cities of Europe. The Umea city was raised up in 1622 and nowadays the downtown remains in the same place were the first city was granted. As Umea, many other Swedish cities where founded in the first part this century, such as Goteborg or Pitea between them. This is not a coincidence. It was due to the wishes of the King Gustaf II Adolf, who wanted to keep more taxes from the traders so he forced them to move to new places. It is interesting to see how much the kings wishes have modelled the Swedish geography. And in other places too.