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  2. Three Crowns - Wikipedia

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    Three Crowns The lesser arms of Sweden The three crowns on Stockholm's City Hall. Three Crowns (Swedish: tre kronor) is the national emblem of Sweden, present in the coat of arms of Sweden, and composed of three yellow or gilded coronets ordered two above and one below, placed on a blue background. Similar designs are found on a number of other ...

  3. Coat of arms of Sweden - Wikipedia

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    The coat of arms of the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish: Sveriges riksvapen) is the arms of dominion of the King of Sweden. It has a greater and a lesser version. It has a greater and a lesser version. The shield displays the "Three Crowns of Sweden" quartering the "Lion of Bjälbo", with an inescutcheon overall of the House of Vasa impaling the ...

  4. Category:National symbols of Sweden - Wikipedia

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    Orders, decorations, and medals of Sweden (5 C, 43 P) Pages in category "National symbols of Sweden" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.

  5. List of national animals - Wikipedia

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    Flamingo (national bird) Phoenicopterus ruber [7] Bangladesh: Bengal tiger (national animal) Panthera tigris tigris [8] Magpie robin (national bird) Copsychus saularis: Ilish (national fish) Tenualosa ilisha Belize: Baird's tapir (national animal) Tapirus bairdii [9] Keel-billed toucan (national bird) Ramphastos sulfuratus [10] Botswana: Plains ...

  6. Mother Svea - Wikipedia

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    As a patriotic symbol, Moder Svea gained widespread popularity in Kunga Skald (1697), written by Swedish poet Gunno Eurelius (1661–1709) in honor of King Charles XI of Sweden. Eurelius was later ennobled with the name of Dahlstjerna. [2] Mother Svea appeared frequently as a national symbol in 19th-century Swedish literature and culture.

  7. Template:National symbols of Sweden - Wikipedia

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  8. Regalia of Sweden - Wikipedia

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    Queen Christina's crown was the crown chosen to be displayed with other items of the Swedish regalia and artifacts from the Swedish royal collections in a 1988-1989 exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Minneapolis Institute of Art commemorating the founding of Delaware as a Swedish colony in 1638.

  9. Flag of Sweden - Wikipedia

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    According to this theory, [citation needed] the Swedish flag was created during the reign of King Charles VIII, who also introduced the coat of arms of Sweden in 1442. The national coat of arms is a combination of King Albert's coat of arms of 1364 and King Magnus III's coat of arms of 1275, and is blue divided quarterly by a golden cross pattée.