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  2. History of Scandinavia - Wikipedia

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    During the Weichselian glaciation, almost all of Scandinavia was buried beneath a thick permanent sheet of ice and the Stone Age was delayed in this region.Some valleys close to the watershed were indeed ice-free around 30 000 years B.P. Coastal areas were ice-free several times between 75 000 and 30 000 years B.P. and the final expansion towards the late Weichselian maximum took place after ...

  3. Kalmar Union - Wikipedia

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    The Kalmar Union [a] was a personal union in Scandinavia, agreed at Kalmar in Sweden as designed by Queen Margaret of Denmark. From 1397 to 1523, [1] it joined under a single monarch the three kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden (then including much of present-day Finland), and Norway, together with Norway's overseas colonies [b] (then including Iceland, Greenland, [c] the Faroe Islands, and the ...

  4. History of Sweden - Wikipedia

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    The history of Sweden can be traced back to the melting of the Northern Polar Ice Caps.From as early as 12000 BC, humans have inhabited this area. Throughout the Stone Age, between 8000 BC and 6000 BC, early inhabitants used stone-crafting methods to make tools and weapons for hunting, gathering and fishing as means of survival. [1]

  5. Scandinavian Peninsula - Wikipedia

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    About one quarter of the Scandinavian Peninsula lies north of the Arctic Circle, its northernmost point being at Cape Nordkyn, Norway. The climate across Scandinavia varies from tundra (Köppen: ET) and subarctic (Dfc) in the north, with cool marine west coast climate (Cfc) in northwestern coastal areas reaching just north of Lofoten, to humid ...

  6. History of Norway - Wikipedia

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    The history of Norway has been influenced to an extraordinary degree by the terrain and the climate of the region. About 10,000 BC, following the retreat inland of the great ice sheets, the earliest inhabitants migrated north into the territory which is now Norway .

  7. H. Arnold Barton - Wikipedia

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    Scandinavia in the Revolutionary Era, 1760-1815 (1986) A Folk Divided: Homeland Swedes and Swedish Americans, 1840-1940 (1994) Northern Arcadia: Foreign Travelers in Scandinavia, 1765-1815 (1998) Sweden and Visions of Norway: Politics and Culture, 1814-1905 (2003) The Old Country and the New: Essays on Swedes and America (2006)

  8. Scandinavian prehistory - Wikipedia

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    The pre-history of Scandinavia begins at the end of the Pleistocene epoch, following the last glacial period's receding Fenno-Scandian ice sheet. Parts of Denmark , Scania and the Norwegian coast line were free from ice around 13,000 BC, and around 10,000 BC the rim of ice was around Dalsland , Västergötland and Östergötland .

  9. Category:Scandinavian history by country - Wikipedia

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    History of Norway‎ (11 C, 4 P) S. History of Sweden‎ (11 C, 6 P) This page was last edited on 10 August 2023, at 04:11 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...