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Located in the south tip of the geographical region of Götaland , the province is roughly conterminous with Skåne County , created in Like the other historical provinces of Sweden, Scania still features in colloquial speech and in cultural references, and can therefore not be regarded as an archaic concept. Within Scania there are 33 municipalities that are autonomous within the Skåne Regional Council.
Scania's largest city , Malmö , is the third-largest city in Sweden, as well as the fifth-largest in Scandinavia. To the north, Scania borders the former provinces of Halland and Småland , to the northeast Blekinge , to the east and south the Baltic Sea , and to the west Öresund. Since , a road and railway bridge, the Öresund Bridge , [ 4 ] bridges the Sound and connects Scania with Denmark.
Scania forms part of the transnational Øresund Region. Historically, Scania formed part of the kingdom of Denmark until the signing of the Treaty of Roskilde in when all Danish lands east of Öresund were ceded to Sweden. In July , a peace treaty between Sweden and Denmark again confirmed the status of Scania as part of Sweden.
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The Latinized form Scania is an exonym in English. For the province's modern administrative counterpart, Skåne län , the endonym Skåne is used in English. The names Scania and Scandinavia are considered to have the same etymology. The actual etymology of the word remains dubious and has long been a matter of debate among scholars.
Between and , the province was subdivided in two administrative counties län , Kristianstad County and Malmöhus County , each under a governor landshövding appointed by the central government of Sweden. When the first local government acts took effect in , each county also got an elected county council landsting. The counties were further divided into municipalities.
The local government reform of reduced the number of municipalities, and a second subdivision reform, carried out between and , established today's 33 municipalities [ 24 ] Swedish : kommuner in Scania. The municipalities have municipal governments, similar to city commissions , and are further divided into parishes församlingar. The parishes are primarily entities of the Church of Sweden , but they also serve as a divisioning measure for the Swedish population registration and other statistical uses.
In , the county council areas were amalgamated, forming Skåne Regional Council Region Skåne , responsible mainly for public healthcare, public transport and regional planning and culture. During the Danish era, the province had no coat of arms. In Sweden, however, every province had been represented by heraldic arms since The Malmö coat of arms had been granted in , during the Kalmar Union , by Eric of Pomerania and contains a Pomeranian griffin 's head.
To distinguish it from the city's coat of arms the tinctures were changed and the official blazon for the provincial arms is, in English: Or , a griffin's head erased gules , crowned azure and armed azure, when it should be armed. The province was divided in two administrative counties — Coats of arms were created for these entities, also using the griffin motif.
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The new Skåne County, operative from 1 January , got a coat of arms that is the same as the province's, but with reversed tinctures. When the county arms is shown with a Swedish royal crown, it represents the County Administrative Board, which is the regional presence of central government authority. In the two county councils landsting were amalgamated forming Region Skåne.
It is the only one of its kind using a heraldic coat of arms. It is also the same as the province's and the county's, but with a golden griffin's head on a blue shield. The Scania Griffin has become a well-known symbol for the province and is also used by commercial enterprises.
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It is, for instance, included in the logotypes of the automotive manufacturer Scania AB and the airline Malmö Aviation. Kingdom of Denmark ? Scania was first mentioned in written texts in the 9th century. It came under Danish king Harald Bluetooth in the middle of the 10th century.