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Gustav III was known in Sweden and abroad by his royal titles, or styles: Gustav, by the Grace of God, King of the Swedes, the Goths and the Vends, Grand Prince of Finland, Duke of Pomerania, Prince of Rügen and Lord of Wismar, Heir to Norway and Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Stormarn and Dithmarschen, Count of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst, etc. [11]
Swedish is the official language of Sweden and is spoken by the vast majority of the 10.23 million inhabitants of the country. It is a North Germanic language and quite similar to its sister Scandinavian languages, Danish and Norwegian, with which it maintains partial mutual intelligibility and forms a dialect continuum.
Sweden portal Gustav III (1746–1792) — a king of Sweden during the Gustavian era (reign 1771–1792). The main article for this category is Gustav III .
Gustafs skål (English: Gustav's Toast), is a song written by Carl Michael Bellman as a salutation to Gustav III of Sweden, following the coup d'état of 1772, which made himself an autocrat and ended the parliamentary age of liberty. The king very much liked the song and informally it came to function as his royal anthem. [1]
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In 1806, a rupture between Sweden and Prussia was prevented only by Napoleon's assault upon the latter power. After Jena Napoleon attempted to win over Sweden, but Gustav rejected every overture. The result was the total loss of Swedish Pomerania, and the Swedish army was saved from destruction only by the ingenuity of Johan Christopher Toll.
Gustav III of Sweden. The Gustavians (Swedish: Gustavianerna) were a political faction in the Kingdom of Sweden who supported the absolutist regime of King Gustav III of Sweden, and sought after his assassination in 1792 to uphold his legacy and protect the interests of his descendants of the House of Holstein-Gottorp.
Gustav of Sweden - English (actually Latin) also: Gustavus ; Swedish (legal spellings after 1900): Gustaf - may refer to: Gustav Vasa, Gustav I, King of Sweden 1523-1560; Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, Gustav II Adolph, King of Sweden 1611-1632; Gustav III of Sweden, King of Sweden 1771-1792; Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden, King of Sweden 1792-1809