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Helsingor is a city and the municipal seat of Helsingor municipality on the northeast coast of the island of Zealand in eastern Denmark. Helsingor has a population of 46,101 (1st January 2009) including the southern suburbs of Snekkersten and Espergærde. It is known internationally as the setting of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, whence the spelling 'Elsinore' originated.
The name is derived from the word "hals" meaning "neck" or "narrow strait", referring to the narrow strait (Oresund) between what is now Helsingor and Helsingborg, Sweden.
Before the Middle Ages Helsingor was just a marketplace where people sold goods. About 1200 AD the first church, Sct Olai Church, was built. A number of convents once surrounded the church, but now all that remains is the church building, today the cathedral of the Diocese of Helsingor. The oldest parts of the cathedral of Helsingor date back to the 1200s and tell us that the fishermen's village, as Helsingor was then, was a town of a certain importance. At least, there have always been some form of ferryboats crossing between Helsingor and Helsingborg.
Helsingor as we know it today was founded in the 1420s by the Danish king Eric of Pomerania. He established the Sound Dues in 1429 and built the castle 'Krogen', which was expanded in the 1580s and named Kronborg.