Åsele

Åsele developed on the Ångerman River as a meeting place for trade in southern Lapland. In the 1550s Gustav Vasa sought to tax Sámi inhabitants and people from Ångermanland who hunted and fished in the region. A market grew at Åsele during the seventeenth century. In 1648 Queen Christina ordered a church built there, and Åsele became a parish separate from Lycksele.