of Sweden common name SwedishEmpire national motto continent Europe region Baltic country Sweden era Early modern Europe status Empire government type Absolute monarchy title leader List of Swedish monarchs ... map LocationSwedishEmpire.png image map caption The SwedishEmpire at its height in 1658. Overseas ... the period is known as the SwedishEmpire , in Swedish language Swedish Stormaktstiden , literally ... pretensions was not so obvious. Domestic consolidation File SwedishEmpire in Early Modern Europe 1560 1815 .png thumb 300px right The development of Sweden and its empire from 1560 to 1815 For the moment ... reflist colwidth 27em 1911 History of Europe DEFAULTSORT SwedishEmpire Category 1718 disestablishments ... 18th century in Sweden Category SwedishEmpire Link GA es ar br Impalaeriezh ... no Stormaktstiden nn Det svenske imperiet pt Imp rio Sueco simple SwedishEmpire sv Stormaktstiden ... br small Eastern orthodox faith recognized as minority religion small common languages Modern SwedishSwedish , Finnish language Finnish , Norwegian language Norwegian , Estonian language Estonian ... Years War , Sweden managed to conquer approximately half of the member states of the Holy Roman Empire ... 1634 Battle of N rdlingen the faith for Sweden amongst the Swedish controlled German states was severely injured, and several of the provinces excluded themselves from Swedish power one by one, leaving ... Empire may have died as a result of the war. ref harvnb Elisabeth Gaynor Ellies , Anthony Esler ... Silesia , Swedish Pomerania Pomerania which had been in its possession since the Treaty of Stettin ... Ban r it obtained Swedish Pomerania , the Swedish share of the former Duchy of Pomerania , since ... were to be held as Dominions of Sweden fief s of the Holy Roman Empire . This allowed Sweden a vote in the Reichstag Holy Roman Empire Imperial Diet and to direct the Lower Saxon Circle alternately ... Empire Russia and Spanish Empire Spain . Sweden reached its largest territorial extent during ... more details
Swedish may refer to wiktionary wiktionary svensk Anything from or related to Sweden , a country in Northern Europe see List of Sweden related topics Swedish language , a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland A person or persons with a Swedish ancestral or ethnic identity Swedes , see Swedish people this includes Swedish Americans Swedish Argentines Swedish Australian s Swedish Canadian s British SwedishSwedish Britons Pakistani SwedishSwedish Pakistani s This generally does not include Swedish speaking Finns . National or citizen of Sweden see Demographics of Sweden disambig bn da Svensk flertydig de Schwedisch es Sueco fr Su dois homonymie os pt Sueco simple Swedish sv Svensk ... more details
II of the Russian Empire , Kaiser Wilhelm II of the German Empire , and George V of the United Kingdom ... of St. John small The term empire derives from the Latin imperium power, authority . Politically, an empire ... by a monarch emperor , empress or an oligarchy . Geopolitically , the term empire has denoted very different, territorially extreme states at the strong end, the extensive Spanish Empire 16th c. and the British Empire 19th c. , at the weak end, the Holy Roman Empire 8th c. 19th c. , in its Medieval and early modern forms. Etymologically, the political usage of empire denotes a strong, centrally ... . ref Oxford Dictionary http www.askoxford.com concise oed empire?view uk Retrieved 21 November ... empire of direct conquest and control with force direct, physical action to compel the emperor s goals , and ii as a coercive, hegemonic empire of indirect conquest and control with power the perception ... 0 pbk ref Territorial empires e.g. the Mongol Empire , the Median Empire tended to be Connected space ... thalassocracies , e.g. the Delian League Athenian and British Empire s with looser structures and more scattered territories. Definition An empire is a state with politico military dominion of populations .... What physically and politically constitutes an empire is variously defined. It might be a state effecting ... an empire is a semantic construction, such as when a ruler assumes the title of Emperor . The said ruler s nation logically becomes an Empire , despite having no additional territory or hegemony such as Central African Empire or the Korean Empire proclaimed in 1897 when Korea, far from gaining new territory, was on the verge of being annexed by Japan. The terrestrial empire s maritime analogue is the thalassocracy , an empire comprising islands and coasts which are accessible to its terrestrial ... center Early empires div gallery File Map achaemenid empire en.png Achaemenid Empire of Persia at its zenith. File Maurya Dynasty in 265 BCE.jpg Maurya Empire of India at its greatest extent under Ashoka ... more details
Infobox VG title Empire image Image Empire .png frame none Dogfighting with an alien ship in Empire developer Andrew Glaister publisher Firebird Software designer engine version released 1986 in video gaming 1986 genre Strategy game Strategy Action games Action modes Single Player ratings N A platforms ZX Spectrum , Commodore 64 C64 , Amstrad CPC media requirements input computer keyboard Keyboard Empire is a space combat and trading video game designed by Andrew Glaister and published by Firebird Software 1986 in video gaming in 1986 for the ZX Spectrum , Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC . Gameplay The player is the pilot of a spacecraft, set during a period of early space colonization. There are 64 star systems to explore, presented in a rotating top down 2D view. Each system has a starbase which issues missions, receives supplies from the player, and sells various ship add ons a sun that presents a navigation hazard due to its high temperature, and one or more orbiting planets. The player can navigate his ship onto a planet s surface through a warp hole and a tunnel maneuvering subgame. Once there, three different supplies can be collected in a first person video games first person flight subgame. The three supplies people, minerals and radioactives are then made available for pick up in the main playing area and can be transferred back to the starbase. Players must also defend themselves ... better ships and starbases to form their own empire. The last task of the game is to deploy a defence shield network to secure the player s empire from invaders. Critical reaction The game s retro ... cite magazine magazine CRASH issue issue 26 title Empire Preview ref but games magazines noted that underlying .... ref cite magazine magazine Sinclair User issue 52 title Empire preview ref Gallery gallery Image Empire starbase.png Inside a starbase Image Empire galaxy.png The galaxy map gallery External links WoS game id 0001619 name Empire References reflist 8bitcomputer game stub Category 1986 video games ... more details
became an autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland Grand Duchy in the Russian Empire , Swedish remained ...File Svenskfinland municipalities 2008.png thumb 230px right Municipalities of Finland with Swedish as an official ... municipalities with a Finnish majority br Bright blue bilingual municipalities with a Swedish majority br Dark blue unilingually 92 94 Swedish municipalities br More than 17,000 Swedish speaking Finns ... Flag of Swedish speaking Finns.svg thumb 230px right Flag of Swedish speaking Finns Finland Swedish lang sv finlandssvenska is a general term for the closely related cluster of dialect s of Swedish language Swedish spoken in Finland by Swedish speaking Finns as their first language mother tongue . For the most ... some archaich Swedish dialects in Ostrobothnia are practically unintelligible to Swedish speaking people in southern Finland and in Sweden . Most Swedish speaking Finns emphasize that Finland Swedish is not a language separate from the Swedish of Sweden. The Swedish dialects in Finland are considered variety linguistics varieties of Swedish, and the norm for written Standard Swedish is completely applicable also for Finland Swedish. Swedish as spoken in Finland is regulated by the Swedish Department ... stated aim of keeping Finland Swedish close to the Swedish as spoken in Sweden and strongly phrased ... of Swedish speakers in the world, Hammarland 96 As of 2004 lc on , is located in Finland. Korsn s has ... Swedish. There are also some words in Finland Swedish that would be considered slightly ... . A common mistake made by many Sweden Swedes is to mistake Finland Swedish for Swedish with a Finnish ... of frustration to most Swedish speaking Finns. Any language adopts features, especially pronunciation habits, from dominant languages it comes in touch with, but many of the traits of Finland Swedish exist also in monolingual areas and some are in fact preserved features of old Swedish. The pronunciation of Finland Swedish by a Swedish speaking Finn is different from that of monolingual Finnish ... more details
Infobox Language name Modern Swedish nativename nysvenska familycolor Indo European region SwedishEmpire , contemporary Sweden , Finland and Estonia extinct developed into contemporary Swedish language Swedish by the late 19th century fam2 Germanic languages Germanic fam3 North Germanic languages North ... was the first complete Swedish translation of the Bible Modern Swedish lang sv nysvenska is the Linguistics linguistic term used for the Swedish language from the Bible translation of 1526 to the development ... Modern Swedish 1526 1750 and Late Modern Swedish 1750 1880 . Early Modern Swedish Bible Early Modern Swedish was established in 1526 with a complete Swedish translation of the Bible . The translation ... Swedish orthography . It established the use of the letters and in place of the older and ... were from N rke is generally seen as adding specific Central Swedish features to the new Bible ... important changes in sound during the Modern Swedish period were the gradual assimilation of several ... vowels. The 16th century was further marked by inconsistencies in the Swedish language throughout ... way of writing. Books printed in Swedish were scarce. Most were theological texts intended to spread .... 17th century In the 17th century there were attempts to establish Swedish as a genuine language. An early ... of Swedish Poetry . He was the first to introduce the hexameter into the Swedish language with his epic .... The hexameter would later be used by many other Swedish poets. Stiernhielm was a learned man, and has ... and old Swedish. Realizing the common inheritance they shared, he traced their origin from ancient times, descending them from a Biblical tribe. Late Modern Swedish Late Modern Swedish is considered to have begun in 1732 when Olof von Dalin published the weekly publication The Swedish Argus in Stockholm ... to music and sung in the homes of the Swedish middle class . It was reprinted several times in the 19th ... . References L. L nnroth, S. Delblanc, et al. Den Svenska Litteraturen See also Old Norse Swedish ... more details
Swedish Championship may refer to in athletics Swedish Athletics Championships Swedish Indoor Athletics Championships Swedish Chess Championship in swimming Swedish Swimming Championships Swedish Short Course Swimming Championships Swedish Junior s Swimming Championships Swedish Youth Swimming Championships Swedish Youth Short Course Swimming Championships Swedish Touring Car Championship in table tennis Swedish Table Tennis Championships Swedish Open Championships Swedish Figure Skating Championships Swedish National Badminton Championships Swedish Championships in Alpine skiing Swedish Championships in Cross country skiing Swedish Speedway Championships disambig Category National championships sv Svenska m sterskap ... more details
Infobox Former Country native name Svenska Livland conventional long name Swedish Livonia common name Livonia continent Europe region Baltic status Vassal empire Sweden status text Dominions of Sweden Dominion of the SwedishEmpire event start Truce of Altmark year start 1629 date start September 25 ... by Russian Empire Russia date event3 1713 event pre Conquered by SwedishEmpire Sweden date pre 1621 ... of SwedishEmpire in the 17th century. capital Riga latd 56 latm 58 latNS N longd 24 longm 8 longEW E common languages Swedish language Swedish , Estonian language Estonian , Latvian language Latvian ... 1696 1702 title representative Swedish Governors General Governor General legislature Diet assembly Diet History of Latvia Swedish Livonia lang sv Svenska Livland was a Dominions of Sweden dominion of the SwedishEmpire from the 1629 until 1721 . The territory, which constituted the southern .... Riga was the second largest city in the SwedishEmpire at the time. The territory in turn was conquered by Russian Empire during the Great Northern War , and following the Capitulation of Estonia ... as a Great Power SwedishEmpire Realm of Sweden Duchy of Estonia 1561 1721 Swedish Estonia Bishopric ... Frederick I year leader2 1720 1751 51 title leader List of Swedish monarchs King of Sweden representative1 ... of Livonia during the 1600 1629 Polish Swedish War 1600 1629 Polish Swedish War . Parts of Livonia and the city of Riga was under Swedish control as early as 1621, and the situation was formalized in Truce ... of Nystad in 1721, together with Swedish Estonia and Swedish Ingria . Governors General The dominion was ruled by appointed Governor General in the Swedish Realm Governors General , but retained ... width 370 height lines 1 File Ducatuum Livoniae et Curlandiae Nova Tabula, 1705.jpg Map of Swedish Livonia, Estonia and Courland in 1705. Military Swedish infantry and cavalry regiments main List of Swedish ... established in 1629 Category Dominions of Sweden Livonia Category Baltic states Livonia, Swedish Estonia ... more details
into the period of Russian Empire Russian rule 1809 1917 . Supporters of Mandatory Swedish argue ...In Finland , Swedish language Swedish is a mandatory school subject for Finnish language Finnish speaking ... in Swedish the so called public servant s Swedish . Similarly, Finnish is a mandatory subject for the Swedish speaking population. Altogether 92 of Finnish citizens are native Finnish speakers, whereas 5.5 of the population report Swedish as their mother tongue. ref http www.stat.fi tup ... constitution , both Finnish and Swedish are national official language s. The national government ... tongue, either Finnish or Swedish. The official term for both mandatory Swedish and Finnish is the second domestic language . However, the requirement to study Swedish is often referred to as pakkoruotsi , a somewhat charged term in Finnish meaning mandatory Swedish , or enforced Swedish ... Finland both official languages, Finnish and Swedish, are mandatory subjects for pupils in Primary education primary and secondary education secondary schools. The Swedish test of the Abitur Matriculation ... educated public servants. Usually this means the completion of a so called public servant s Swedish test. The status of Swedish as an official national language in Finland is defined by the Finnish constitution. The Swedish language is also one of the main agendas of the Swedish People s Party Finland Swedish People s Party that has been a minor partner in most Cabinet government Cabinets since ... Swedish, 5 Finnish has only one official language, Swedish, and international treaties to some degree grant it the right of remaining exclusively Swedophone. The Swedish language is an official language ... is Finland from around A.D. 1200. There was also a migration of Swedish peasants to Finland during the Middle Ages. During this period, when Finland was a part of Sweden, Swedish language became part of the culture of Finland . During Swedish rule the Finnish language was passively oppressed by the Swedish ... more details
Infobox Former Country native name Svenska Ingermanland conventional long name Swedish Ingria common name Ingria continent Europe region Baltic status Dominion empire Sweden status text Dominions of Sweden Dominion of the SwedishEmpire life span 1580 1595 br 1617 1721 event start Livonian War Conquered by Sweden year start 1580 event1 Treaty of Teusina Ceded to Russia date event1 18 May 1595 event2 Treaty of Stolbovo date event2 17 February 1617 event3 Great Northern War date event3 1700 21 event4 ... coat Ingria Coat of Arms.svg image map Sw BalticProv en.png image map caption Baltic provinces of SwedishEmpire in the 17th century. capital Narva common languages Swedish language Swedish , Finnish ... 18th century the area was reconquered by Russian Empire Russia in the Great Northern War after a bare century in SwedishEmpireSwedish possession. On the place of the Swedish town Nyen or in Finnish ... Frederick I of Sweden Frederick I year leader4 1720 51 title leader List of Swedish monarchs King of Sweden ... Helmfelt year representative2 1659 1673 title representative Swedish Governors General Governor General stat year1 1644 stat pop1 15000 Swedish Ingria lang sv Svenska Ingermanland was a Dominions of Sweden dominion of the SwedishEmpire from 1580 to 1595 and then again from 1617 to 1721, when it was ceded to the Russian Empire in the Treaty of Nystad . Ingria was ceded to Sweden by Tsardom of Russia ... Peipsi in South West, and Lake Ladoga in North East. Bordering to Kexholm and Swedish Karelia by the Sestra ... Swedish territory. In addition, Ingria became the destination for Swedish deportees. Ingria remained sparsely populated. In 1664 the population was counted to 15,000. Swedish attempts to introduce ... most of all due to voluntary resettlements from Savonia and Karelia. Ingria was enfeoffed to Swedish ... Swedish Estonia . ref Kurs, Ott 1994 . http www.springerlink.com content r5302p2n2802g742 fulltext.pdf ... Capital political capital Saint Petersburg was founded in 1703. Governors General main Swedish ... more details
image map Sw BalticProv en.png image map caption Baltic provinces of SwedishEmpire in the 17th century. common languages German language German , Estonian language Estonian , Swedish language Swedish religion Lutheranism capital Reval History of Estonia File SwedishEmpire in Early Modern Europe 1560 1815 .png 285px thumb The SwedishEmpire The Duchy of Estonia lang sv Hertigd met Estland , lang et Eestimaa hertsogkond , also known as Swedish Estonia , ref http books.google.com books?id Px4gekq8pCcC&dq The Swedish imperial experience 1560 1718 By Michael Roberts, ISBN 0521278899, p 30 ref Swedish Svenska Estland was a Dominions of Sweden dominion of the SwedishEmpire from 1561 until 1721, when it was ceded to Russian Empire Russia in the Treaty of Nystad , following Capitulation of Estonia ...Infobox Former Country native name Hertigd met Estland conventional long name Swedish Estonia br Duchy of Estonia common name Estonia, Swedish continent Europe status Vassal empire Sweden status text Dominions of Sweden Dominion of SwedishEmpire government type Dominion p1 Livonian Confederation image p1 Image Baltic coat of arms.svg 20px s1 Governorate of Estonia flag s1 Eestimaa v rvid.svg year start 1561 date start June 4 event start year end 1721 date end September 10 event end Treaty of Nystad title leader Monarch King leader1 year leader1 representative1 Anders Torstenson year representative1 1674 1681 representative2 Axel Julius De la Gardie year representative2 1687 1704 title representative Governor General in the Swedish Realm Governor General image flag Sweden Flag 1562.svg flag ... parts of present day Estonia were united under Swedish rule in 1561. The city of Tallinn Reval and the counties ... colloquially known as the good old Swedish times ref http books.google.com books?id c8eY5kmJpDkC ... General 1674 1728 main Governor General in the Swedish Realm Anders Torstenson Andreas Lennartson ... Swedish infantry and cavalry regiments main List of Swedish regiments Infantry Infantry regiments Estl ndskt ... more details
The term Finnish Swedish lang sv finlandssvensk a , lang fi suomenruotsi alainen could refer to The Swedish speaking population of Finland, see Swedish speaking Finns The dialect of the Swedish language spoken by them, see Finland Swedish disambig ... more details
Infobox Language name Swedish nativename svenska pronunciation IPA sv sv nsk states br flag Sweden .... speakers 10 million script Latin alphabet Latin Swedish alphabet Swedish variant familycolor Indo ... nation SWE Sweden br FIN Finland br EU European Union br Nordic Council agency Swedish Language ... swe iso3 swe map Image Distribution sv.png center 180px Map of the major Swedish speaking areas Swedish ... 10 million people, ref name speakers cite web title Ethnologue report for Swedish url http ... 290,000 native speakers of Swedish in Finland cite web title Statistics Finland Population ... . Along with the other North Germanic languages, Swedish is a descendant of Old Norse , the common ... the largest of the North Germanic languages by numbers of speakers. Standard Swedish , used by most Swedish people , is the national language that evolved from the Central Swedish dialects in the 19th ... in grammar and vocabulary and are not always mutually intelligible with Standard Swedish. These dialects ... often be changed to stress certain words or phrases. Swedish Morphology linguistics morphology ... inventory. Swedish is also notable for the voiceless dorso palatal velar fricative , a highly variable consonant phoneme . Classification Swedish is an Indo European language belonging to the North ... , Danish, Norwegian and Swedish, based on mutual intelligibility due to heavy influence of East Scandinavian ... , dictionaries, grammars, and regulatory bodies. Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish are thus from ... Crystal loc Scandinavian ref History Main History of Swedish In the 9th century, Old Norse began to diverge ... century, the dialects of Denmark and Sweden began to diverge, becoming Old Danish and Old Swedish in the 13th ... too literally, the system of subdivisions used in this article is the most commonly used by Swedish ... . The subdialect of Old East Norse spoken in Sweden is called Runic Swedish and the one in Denmark ... of the Runic Swedish speaking area as well in the end of the period, with the exception of the dialects ... more details
unreferenced date January 2011 Sweden Swedish lang sv sverigesvenska is a term sometimes used to distinguish the Swedish language Swedish as spoken in Sweden from Finland Swedish , Estonia Swedish or other variants of the same language as spoken in other countries, regardless of dialects. See also Standard Swedish Category Swedish language language stub ... more details
as Vassal of Holy Roman EmpireempireSwedishEmpire status text Swedish Dominion , br List of states of the Holy Roman Empire State of the Holy Roman Empire government type Principality event start Treaty ... Wappen Pommern.svg symbol symbol type image map Swedish Pomerania.PNG image map caption Swedish Pomerania orange within the SwedishEmpire in 1658 capital Stettin small br 1630 1720 small br Greifswald ... 1653.PNG thumb right 270px The former Duchy of Pomerania center partitioned between the SwedishEmpire and Brandenburg after the Treaty of Stettin 1653 . Swedish Pomerania Western Pomerania West ... 1813 ref name Petrick See also History of Sweden SwedishEmpire Dominions of Sweden Pomerania during ...Infobox Former Country native name Svenska Pommern br Schwedisch Pommern conventional long name Swedish ... German language German , br Swedish language Swedish religion Lutheranism title leader List of Swedish ... General in the Swedish Realm Pomerania Governor General representative1 Sten Svantesson Bielke ... 1800 1809 representative3 Direct rule year representative3 1809 1814 Swedish Pomerania lang ... Swedish Crown from 1630 to 1815, situated on what is now the Baltic Sea Baltic coast of Germany and Poland . Following the Polish Swedish War Polish War and the Thirty Years War , Sweden held extensive ... parts of Germany as a fief from the Holy Roman Empire as Reichsf rsten imperial princes . In 1679 ... in 1715 . In 1814, as a result of the Napoleonic Wars Swedish Pomerania was ceded to Denmark in exchange ... to Prussia . Geography The largest cities in Swedish Pomerania were Stralsund , Greifswald and, until ... due to the Treaty of Grimnitz , were recognised, the Swedish king still demanded that the Margraviate ... in 1648 settled rights to the province in Swedish favour. At the peace negotiations in Osnabr ck ... estates Rittergut in Swedish Pomerania were held by Swedish nobles. ref Werner Buchholz, Pommern ... Swedish nobles two thirds and officials, became in 1654 administered by the former Swedish queen ... more details
Part of the Northern Crusades , the Swedish Crusades were campaigns by Sweden in Finland. They include First Swedish Crusade 1150s Second Swedish Crusade 1240s Third Swedish Crusade 1293 disambig sweden hist stub finland stub sv De svenska korst gen ... more details
as the SwedishEmpire . It partly corresponds to an independent literary period. The literature of the SwedishEmpire era is regarded as the beginning of the Swedish literary tradition. ref Tigersted ... teachings. Gothicismus also gained in strength. During the SwedishEmpire period, it developed into a literary ...This article is in Commonwealth English Swedish literature refers to literature written in the Swedish ... from Sweden, their works are generally considered part of Swedish literature by authorities such as Algulin ... to use Latin. Therefore there are only a few texts in the Swedish language Old Swedish Old Swedish from that period. Swedish literature only flourished when the Swedish language was standardized in the 16th century, a standardization largely due to the full translation of the Bible into Swedish in 1541 ... brought by secularisation , the 17th century saw several notable authors develop the Swedish language ... poetry in Swedish Johan Henric Kellgren 18th century , the first to write fluent Swedish prose ... the four book series The Emigrants novels The Emigrants Swedish Utvandrarna , often considered one of the best literary works from Sweden . In recent decades, a handful of Swedish writers have established ... image R kstenen 2.jpg thumb right The R k Runestone , the start of Swedish literature Image S 327 ... . It is generally regarded as the beginning of Swedish literature. ref name Gustafson1 Gustafson ... litteraturen , vol 1. ref Middle Ages main Early Swedish literature The Christianization of Sweden ... the early 14th century, written in Latin. The earliest known complete books in the Swedish language ... of other literature written consists of law texts. 16th and 17th century main Swedish reformation and Renaissance literature Reformation literature Swedish Reformation literature is considered ... Sweden s ancient history. ref name Tigerstedt While contributions to Swedish culture were sparse, this period did at least provide an invaluable basis for future development. Most importantly, the Swedish ... more details
Refimprove date January 2009 Swedish neutrality refers to Sweden s policy of neutrality in armed conflicts ... links to NATO. Nevertheless, the Swedish neutrality during World War II has been much debated and challenged ... the Swedish government to maintain political neutrality, Sweden exported iron ore to supply Nazi Germany s war industry via the Norwegian port of Narvik . Nazi German war industry dependence on Swedish ... access to Norwegian ports by force, Nazi Germany could obtain the Swedish iron ore supply it needed ... commanded by General Erwin Engelbrecht, and military equipment through Swedish territory by train ... was in need of allies, and so met with the Swedish king in bo. At the meeting it was agreed that Sweden ... to cede Norway to Sweden. Swedish troops led by Bernadotte took part in the Napoleonic Wars in 1813 ..., Swedish troops were located in Jutland Fact date June 2007 as support for Denmark against Prussia n supported rebels the Swedish regular troops, however, never experienced any combat. Hundreds of Norwegian and Swedish volunteers joined and fought in the Danish army. After 40 years of successful ... German Empire were strong in Sweden, so were mercantile and personal ties with Britain ... less influential, were the Swedish Social Democratic Party Social Democrats , who were in many ..., the conviction that strict neutrality was most suitable for Sweden dominated Swedish society. A new ... The politician who stood as the biggest thorn in the side of the government was the Swedish Minister ..., the Swedish government opposed Sandler s proposal, in that it was felt that this would set a precedent ... that the Swedish government had dropped Sandler due to his outspoken comments on the government s policies ... it was Sandler who requested permission to retire from the Swedish cabinet, because the government ..., beginning in 1936, the Swedish government requested increases in its defense budget to strengthen ..., Swedish industry was required to not only supply the increased demand for domestic products, exacerbated ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Svealand Swedish in Swedish language Swedish Sveam l is one of the six major groupings of Swedish dialects, clearly distinguished from Finland Swedish and the Swedish spoken in Svealand . A major characteristic of Svealand Swedish is the assimilation linguistics coalescence of the alveolar trill with following dental consonant dental and alveolar consonant s &mdash also over word boundaries &mdash that transforms them into retroflex consonant s that in some cases reduces the distinction between words as for instance vana &mdash varna, i.e. habit &mdash warn . This feature is also found in Norwegian language East Norwegian , Swedish language North Swedish and in some dialects of Scottish Gaelic language Scottish Gaelic . IPA r IPA l IPA IPA r IPA n IPA IPA r IPA s IPA IPA r IPA t IPA A special development holds for rd IPA r IPA d IPA One high status variety linguistics variety of Swedish, that of the capital region of Stockholm &ndash Uppsala , sometimes ambiguously designated as rikssvenska , belongs to Svealand Swedish , though IPA r IPA d IPA is employed instead of the traditional transformation to a flap. Swedish language Category Swedish dialects Ie lang stub sv Sveam l ... more details
Unreferenced auto yes date December 2009 image Swedish berries and a bear .jpg right thumb 300px A bag of Swedish Berries. Swedish berries are red and occasionally blue berry shaped soft chewy candy. The name Swedish Berries is trademarked by Maynards Candy, a division of Cadbury Canada. Their ingredients include sugar , glucose syrup , modified corn starch , citric acid , artificial flavours, mineral oil , carnauba wax , colour, and concentrated pear juice. Swedish Berries are similar in taste and consistency to Swedish Fish , another Maynards product. Production of Swedish Berries have been discontinued in the United States. It is possible to purchase Maynards Swedish Berries in Canada. DEFAULTSORT Swedish Berries Category Brand name confectionery Confectionery stub ... more details
Refimprove date November 2009 File koettbullar stockholm2006.jpg thumb upright 1.5 Swedish meatball s with cream ... south extent there have always been regional differences in Swedish cuisine . Historically, in the far ... dogs have been a ubiquitous part of Swedish culture since the 1960s. Twenty years later, the same ... in such dishes. General features Swedish cuisine could be described as centered around cultured ... , sweetened seafood and fish . Potatoes are often served as a side dish, most often mashed. Swedish ... of Swedish cuisine. Butter and margarine are the primary fat sources, although olive oil ... The importance of fish has governed Swedish population and trade patterns far back in history. For preservation ... today sauerkraut is used very seldom in Swedish cuisine . Lingonberry jam , still a favourite, may be the most traditional and typical Swedish way to add freshness to sometimes rather heavy food, such as steaks .... This tradition is still present in today s Swedish dishes, which are still rather sparingly spiced ... . Swedish merchant traders and aristocracy aristocrats naturally also picked up some food traditions ... by his ottoman empire Ottoman creditors, which moved to Stockholm in 1716. K ldolmar were already ... Swedish husmanskost denotes traditional Swedish dishes with local ingredients, the classical every day Swedish cuisine. The word husmanskost stems from husman , meaning house owner without associated ... of towns. Genuine Swedish husmanskost used predominantly local ingredients such as pork in all forms ... boil are commonly employed and spice s are sparingly used. Examples of Swedish husmanskost are pea ... . Dishes akin to Swedish husmanskost and food traditions are found also in other Scandinavian ... has undergone a renaissance during the last decades as well known or famous Swedish chef s, such as Tore Wretman , have presented modernised variants of classical Swedish dishes. In this nouvel husman ... the 17th and 18th centuries, to the pizza and cafe latte of today. Many Swedish restaurateurs mix traditional ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Swedish For Immigrants normally known as SFI or Svenskundervisning f r invandrare in Swedish language Swedish is the national free Swedish language course offered to most categories of immigrants. Immigrants who speak Danish language Danish or Norwegian language Norgwegian are ineligible for free Swedish tuition through SFI. All other persons who have immigrated to Sweden are by law entitled to education in the Swedish language. SFI is directed towards people who lack basic knowledge in Swedish and are of the minimum age of sixteen. ref SFI system in Stockholm explained in English at http www.stockholm.se Stockholm.se ref The training is paid for by the Municipalities of Sweden municipality local authority in which the immigrant lives, and applications to take the course are made to the municipality s adult education department kommunens vuxenutbildning . Notes reflist External links http www.spouses.nu lankar och dokument dokument LearningSwedishInSweden.html Learning Swedish in Stockholm from Spouses.nu http www.skolverket.se sb d 389 Skolverket Information on SFI in Swedish from the education office. sv Svenska f r invandrare Wikipedia.se SFI on Swedish Wikipedia. http www.stockholm.se Extern Templates Page.aspx?id 127042 Stockholm.se SFI in Stockholm explained in English. Language tools http www.cfl.se cfl utvecklar larandet projekt som pagar safir SAFIR Free online Swedish course. Can be navigated in English http www.verbix.com languages swedish.shtml Verbix.com Swedish Conjugate Swedish verbs. http lexin.nada.kth.se swe eng.html Lexicon Online Swedish English dictionary. http www.kreativpedagogik.se SFI L nkar SFI links Useful round up of SFI resources http www.languagekompis.com web question good online ressources to learn swedish languagekompis.com Swedish Online resources about Swedish language and culture. Navigation in English. Category Education in Sweden Sweden stub sv Svenskundervisning f r invandrare ... more details
text reads H gt skall det klinga v rt svenska spr k Loudly shall it sound, our Swedish language. land Swedish l ndska is a dialect of Swedish spoken in the land Islands , an autonomous province of Finland. land Swedish has similarities to both Finland Swedish and the historical dialects of Uppland , but it is generally considered to be a variant of Swedish dialects Eastern Swedish stsvenska m l , varieties of Swedish spoken in Finland and Estonian Swedes Language Estonia . Swedish is the sole ... As in Finland Swedish, the pitch accent tonal word accent that distinguishes certain minimal pairs is not present in land Swedish. Of the two accents the acute accent accent 1 and the grave accent accent 2 only the acute exists in land Swedish. ref name stadsbibliotek http www.bibliotek.ax ... Certain expressions are typical of land Swedish. For example, the double genitive in Vemses flicka pojke r du d ? Whose s boy girl are you? Vems flicka pojke r du d in Standard Swedish ..., none in Standard Swedish a plural form Jag har inga varit d r I have not been there . A feature that land Swedish shares with Finland Swedish is the reduction of the words inte not , skulle should ... vocabulary of land Swedish is composed of words that are either characteristic of Eastern Swedish or have passed out of use but are still understood in the Swedish spoken in Sweden. Traces of Finnish ... stadsbibliotek Below is a selection of dialectal words and expressions used in land Swedish ref name stadsbibliotek border 1 cellspacing 0 cellpadding 4 class wikitable land Swedish Standard Swedish Translation Notes Wiktionary batting Swedish batting n. tr regel batten batting in standard Swedish means baby disambiguation baby . Probably from English batten . Wiktionary batteri Swedish batteri n. v rme element radiator batteri in standard Swedish means battery disambiguation battery . Wiktionary butka Swedish butka n. finka jail From Russian cf. Finnish putka Wiktionary byka Swedish byka v ... more details
No footnotes date May 2009 Standard Swedish standardsvenska denotes Swedish language Swedish as a spoken and written standard language . While Swedish as a written language is uniform and standardized ... and h gsvenska In Swedish, the terms rikssvenska Realm Swedish and h gsvenska High Swedish are used .... The direct translation of standardsvenska Standard Swedish is less common and primarily used in scholarly contexts. Rikssvenska has come to mean all Swedish as spoken in Sweden as opposed to the Finland Swedish spoken in Finland. For speakers in Sweden, this term however often, perhaps primarily, indicates non dialectal spoken Swedish. The term Sweden Swedish sverigesvenska is sometimes used instead, as a parallel to the term Finland Swedish. There is however no common agreement on how rikssvenska ..., Rike rik is a cognate of the German language German Reich . National Swedish TV and radio news ... literally High Swedish was formerly the same as for rikssvenska, i.e. the most prestigious dialect ... dialect of the Swedish speakers in Helsinki . Until the late 19th early 20th century, Swedish ... Swedish mandatory subjects for all Finnish pupils in primary and secondary schools, although the requirement to include Swedish in the upper secondary final examination studentexamen was dropped in 2004. Regional standards and rural dialects Swedish linguists reserve the term dialect for rural dialects with roots that can be traced back to Old Swedish. However, among Swedish speakers in general, other regional standards are considered to be dialects . Although Swedish phonology is in principle ... Swedish. Instead, there are at least three regional standard variety linguistics varieties acrolects or prestige dialect s , i.e. the most intelligible or prestigious forms of spoken Swedish, each within their area. No commonly accepted terms exist, not even in Swedish, but they will be designated in the following manner in this article listed in order of the number of speakers Central Swedish ... more details
Primary sources date October 2008 Image SwedishGoggles.jpg thumb A picture of various pairs of swedish style goggles. Note the different nose pieces and the lack of a traditional seal around the eye. Swedish goggles are a classic and popular type of swimming goggles worn by many competitive swimming competitive swimmers . They are the most popular goggle among elite swimmers. ref http www.swedishgoggles.com produktblad Swedish 20goggles 20history 20080715.pdf ref The original Swedish goggles were produced by the Swedish company Malmsten AB and were first designed in the 1970s. Swedish goggles influenced many other goggle designs and generic Swedish goggles are widely available. Malmsten claims that Swedish goggles are probably the worlds most copied swim goggles. ref http www.swedishgoggles.com produktblad Swedish 20goggles 20history 20080715.pdf ref Swedish goggles are notable for a lack of a gasket or seal around the eye cup, as found on most other goggles. They come in various colors including clear, black, blue, green, red, amber, pink, silver metallic and bronze metallic. Swedish goggles are relatively low cost, with basic goggles costing around 5 retail and metallic goggle costing around 15. ref http www.slate.com id 2197095 pagenum 2 ref Much of the popularity of Swedish goggles is due to their customizable fit. The goggles are sold unassembled, with each goggle set including a pair of eye cups, one long around 36 latex rubber strip, and a nose piece consisting of string that fits inside a plastic or rubber tube. Swimmers may choose a single or double head strap, and some choose to cut a small piece of latex from the head strap for use as a nose piece. ref http www.slate.com id 2197095 pagenum 2 ref Malmsten s official assembly instructions can be found at http www.m malmsten.se produktblad swedishassembly.pdf references Category Swimming equipment Category Eyewear Swimming stub da Sv mmebriller de Schwimmbrille Schwedenbrille pt culos de nata o ... more details
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