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Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 06:56, 6 February 2021: 800 × 877 (513 KB): Chhrls: Updated borders for places like the Swedish-Finnish border and the Skåne-Blekinge border, added Blekinge, changed incorrect dates for places like Swedish Pomerania.
The ship Vasa gives an idea of the era.. In Swedish history, the first half of the 17th century was a period of awakening.As a leading European power, a role which the country was to impose itself following the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), required the capital to be refurnished with a worthy architectonic rob—the nation was determined never to repeat the embarrassment experienced ...
1923 map showing Swedish possessions acquired between 1524 and 1658. Years in parentheses show when possession was lost. As a result of eighteen years of war, Sweden gained small and scattered possessions, but had secured control of three principal rivers in northern Germany—the Oder , the Elbe and the Weser —and gained toll-collection ...
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 ...
Stockholm in art: Winter scene from Stockholm by Alfred Bergström Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, born in Stockholm in 1833. Art in Stockholm. Stockholm in art / Paintings of Stockholm; Public art in Stockholm Efter badet; The Four Elements; Cuisine of Stockholm Söder tea; Events in Stockholm Nobel Banquet; Stockholm Japan Expo
An Economic History of Sweden (2000) online edition Archived 17 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine. Moberg, Vilhelm, and Paul Britten Austin. A History of the Swedish People: Volume 1: From Prehistory to the Renaissance, (2005); A History of the Swedish People: Volume II: From Renaissance to Revolution (2005). Nordstrom, Byron J.
The Swedish History Museum (Swedish: Historiska museet or Statens historiska museum) is a museum located in Stockholm, Sweden, that covers Swedish archaeology and cultural history from the Mesolithic period to present day. Founded in 1866, it operates as a government agency and is tasked with preserving Swedish historical items as well as ...