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Sweden

Constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy in Scandinavia; EU member since 1995, NATO member since 2024.

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Borders over time

The atlas holds 15 border frames for Sweden — the shape you scrub through changes in 1523 · 1565 · 1625 · 1675 · 1708 · 1749 · 1792 · 1808 · 1848 · 1890 · 1907 · 1917 · 1925 · 1934 · 1942.

Moments from the Chronicle

• 1638 New Sweden founded Swedes build Fort Christina on the Delaware; the Wenro of New York disperse the same year.
• 1655 Dutch conquer New Sweden Stuyvesant takes Fort Christina; the Delaware passes to New Netherland.

Further reading

• Sweden, the nation's history Franklin Daniel Scott · 1977

  Standard single-volume narrative history of Sweden as a nation-state.

• The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings Peter Sawyer (ed.) · 1997

  Twelve leading scholars cover Viking-age Scandinavia including Sweden's Viking-era kingdoms, expansion, and the Norse world; richly illustrated with archaeological evidence.

• The Emigrants Vilhelm Moberg · 1949 · fiction

  Moberg's novel follows Swedish farmers emigrating to America in the 1850s, a landmark of modern Swedish literature within the kingdom's span.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Sweden
• Wikidata Q34 (Sweden)