Sweden
Nordic country in Northern Europe.
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Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean, enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden and the North and Central European Plain.
Scandinavia
Subregion in Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples.
Subregion in Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples.
In English usage, Scandinavia most commonly refers to Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.
Kalmar Union
The Kalmar Union (Danish, Norwegian, and Kalmarunionen; Finnish: Kalmarin unioni; Unio Calmariensis) was a personal union in Scandinavia, agreed at Kalmar in Sweden, that from 1397 to 1523 joined under a single monarch the three kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden (then including most of present-day Finland), and Norway, together with Norway's overseas colonies (then including Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and the Northern Isles of Orkney and Shetland).
Union between Sweden and Norway
Sweden and Norway or Sweden–Norway (Svensk-norska unionen; Den svensk-norske union(en)), officially the United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway, and known as the United Kingdoms, was a personal union of the separate kingdoms of Sweden and Norway under a common monarch and common foreign policy that lasted from 1814 until its peaceful dissolution in 1905.
Dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden
The dissolution of the union (Unionsoppløysinga; Landsmål: Unionsoppløysingi; Unionsupplösningen) between the kingdoms of Norway and Sweden under the House of Bernadotte, was set in motion by a resolution of the Storting on 7 June 1905.
Unicameralism
Type of legislature, which consists of one house or assembly, that legislates and votes as one.
Type of legislature, which consists of one house or assembly, that legislates and votes as one.
Sometimes, as in New Zealand and Denmark, unicameralism comes about through the abolition of one of two bicameral chambers, or, as in Sweden, through the merger of the two chambers into a single one, while in others a second chamber has never existed from the beginning.
Finland
Nordic country in Northern Europe.
Nordic country in Northern Europe.
It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland across Estonia to the south.
Constitutional monarchy
Form of monarchy in which the monarch exercises their authority in accordance with a constitution and is not alone in deciding.
Form of monarchy in which the monarch exercises their authority in accordance with a constitution and is not alone in deciding.
Constitutional monarchies range from countries such as Liechtenstein, Monaco, Morocco, Jordan, Kuwait, and Bahrain, where the constitution grants substantial discretionary powers to the sovereign, to countries such as Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands, Spain, Belgium, Sweden, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, and Japan, where the monarch retains significantly less personal discretion in the exercise of their authority.
Swedish Empire
European great power that exercised territorial control over much of the Baltic region during the 17th and early 18th centuries .
European great power that exercised territorial control over much of the Baltic region during the 17th and early 18th centuries .
Sweden is the only Nordic country to have ever reached the status of a military great power.
NATO
Intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states – 28 European and two North American.
Intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states – 28 European and two North American.
NATO currently recognizes Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, and Ukraine as aspiring members, and is in talks with Finland and Sweden regarding their applications for membership.