Fröjel

{{Infobox settlement

|official_name = Fröjel

|image_skyline = Labyrint vid, Fröjels kyrka, Gotland.jpg

|image_caption = Stone labyrinth at Fröjel Church

|pushpin_map = Sweden Gotland

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|subdivision_type = Country

|subdivision_name = Sweden

|subdivision_type3 = Municipality

|subdivision_name3 = Gotland Municipality

|subdivision_type2 = County

|subdivision_name2 = Gotland County

|subdivision_type1 = Province

|subdivision_name1 = Gotland

|area_footnotes = {{cite encyclopedia|title=Fröjel socken|encyclopedia=Svensk uppslagsbok|year=1947–55|publisher=Förlagshuset Norden|location=Malmö|edition=2|id={{LIBRIS|11112}}}}

|area_total_km2 =

|population_as_of = 2014

|population_footnotes = {{cite web|title=Gotland i siffror 2015|trans-title=Gotland in numbers 2015|url=http://www.gotland.se/64224|website=www.gotland.se|publisher=Gotland Municipality|access-date=25 May 2016|archive-date=30 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130042935/http://gotland.se/64224|url-status=dead}}

|population_total =358

|population_density_km2 = 43

|timezone = CET

|utc_offset = +1

|timezone_DST = CEST

|utc_offset_DST = +2

|coordinates = {{coord|57|20|8|N|18|11|23|E|region:SE|display=inline,title}}

|website =

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Fröjel ({{IPA|sv|ˈfrœ̂jːɛl}}){{cite book|url=https://runeberg.org/ortnamn/0012.html|author1=Jöran Sahlgren|author2=Gösta Bergman|title=Svenska ortnamn med uttalsuppgifter|language=sv|year=1979|page=8}} is a populated area, a socken (not to be confused with parish), on the Swedish island of Gotland.{{cite web|title=Fröjel|url=http://www.gotland.net/sv/bo-leva/socknar/frojel|website=www.gotland.net|publisher=Gotland.net|access-date=13 February 2015}}The exact extent of the socken, now district, can be obtained by clicking on Kartinställningar and check the Socken box in the menu of [http://www.fmis.raa.se/cocoon/fornsok/search.html?parish=919&tab=2&page=1 this map] from the Swedish National Heritage Board database. It comprises the same area as the administrative Fröjel District, established on 1{{nbsp}}January 2016.{{cite web|title=Förordning om district|trans-title=Regulation of districts|url=http://rkrattsdb.gov.se/SFSdoc/15/150493.PDF|date=17 June 2015|publisher=Ministry of Finance|access-date=24 May 2016}} In 2014, it had a population of 358.

Geography

Fröjel is situated on the west coast of Gotland.{{cite web|title=Fröjel|url=http://www.ne.se/uppslagsverk/encyklopedi/lång/fröjel|website=www.ne.se|publisher=Nationalencyklopedin|access-date=10 May 2016}} The medieval Fröjel Church is in Fröjel.{{cite book|last1=Lagerlöf|first1=Erland|last2=Svahnström|first2=Gunnar|title=Gotlands kyrkor|trans-title=Gotland's Churches|language=sv|id={{LIBRIS|7232718}}|date=1973|publisher=Rabén & Sjögren|location=Stockholm|isbn=91-29-41035-5|pages=143–144}} {{As of|2019}}, Fröjel Church belongs to Fröjel parish in Klinte pastorat.{{cite web |title=Församlingar på Gotland |url=https://www.svenskakyrkan.se/visbystift/f |website=www.svenskakyrkan.se |publisher=Church of Sweden |access-date=12 January 2019}}{{cite web |title=Visby stifts indelning 2018 |url=https://www.svenskakyrkan.se/default.aspx?id=1714164 |website=www.svenskakyrkan.se |publisher=Church of Sweden |access-date=12 January 2019}}

One of the asteroids in the main belt, 10127 Fröjel, is named after this place.{{cite web|url=http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=10127|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200819050212/https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=10127|url-status=dead|archive-date=19 August 2020|title=JPL Small-Body Database Browser|access-date=15 February 2015|publisher=NASA}}

See also

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