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Visby - the medieval town in Sweden - English, Swedish
URL: http://www.bingeby.com/

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Visby in Sweden is chosen by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. The Medieval Week in Scandinavia is a medieval event with thousands of participators. Visby is a walled town with ruins, roses, cobbled streets, restaurants, a lot of pubs and markets, and the ringwall itself: Visby is a former Hanseatic town in Sweden. The Hansa ruled Gotland for hundreds of years, today it's ruled by tourists.

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Add a comment to A Brief History of Sweden - English
URL: http://www.photo.net/comments/add?page_id=2608

"I have an alternative perspective to contribute that will be of interest to other readers of this page two or three years from now: Add a persistent comment".

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The Virtual Jewish History Tour - Sweden - English
URL: http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/vjw/Sweden.html

History. Holocaust Period. Post-Holocaust Period. Today’s Swedish Jewish Community.

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Scandinavian Studies Web: History - English
URL: http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wess/scan/hist.html

Links.

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Harvard University Press/An Economic History of Sweden - English
URL: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/HECECO.html

By Eli Filip Heckscher, published by Harvard University Press.

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WWW-pages of History Departments: Sweden - English
URL: http://odur.let.rug.nl/ahc/histlink/deps/sweden.htm

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University of Gothenborg. Lunds Universitet. Ancient History at Stockholm University. Umeå University. Uppsala University. Växjö University.

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NEHA Bulletin - Economic history in Sweden - English
URL: http://www.neha.nl/publications/bul9501_soderberg.html

Economic history in Sweden - some recent research trends. By Johan Söderberg.

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Heritage and History of Sweden - English
URL: http://www.geographia.com/sweden/history.html

Two of Sweden's many monarchs hold particularly prominent positions in its history. The first is Gustav Vasa, whose leadership established the foundations of the Swedish nation state in the early sixteenth century. The second is Gustav II Adolf, a figure perhaps better known as Gustavus Adolphus, the "Lion of the North."

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Sweden: History - English
URL: http://www.sverigeturism.se/smorgasbord/smorgasbord/society/history/

The Vikings. The Birth of the Swedish. Nation-State. The Swedish Great Power. Period. Sweden in the 18th and 19th Centuries. Democratic Reforms. The 20th century.

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Culture: A Short History of Sweden - English
URL: http://www.sverigeturism.se/smorgasbord/smorgasbord/culture/short-history/

To make a long story short, agriculture was introduced during the Stone Age, and there was a subsequent Bronze Age followed by an Iron Age. The long process of creating political unity started about 1100 A.D.

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The Viking Expeditions from Central Sweden (700-1000) - English
URL: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lars/thesis.html

The Viking expeditions from central Sweden primarily influenced by their culture, which was in turn heavily influenced by the expeditions. On one hand, the technologies, customs, and way of life of the Svear provided the prerequisite material for organized expeditions through unsafe lands.

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World Wide Web Virtual Library - Swedish History Index - English
URL: http://www.iue.it/LIB/SISSCO/VL/hist-sweden/Index.html

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Reference, Chronological.Chronological

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A Brief History of Sweden - English
URL: http://www.photo.net/sweden/history

About 14,000 years ago, some of the ice covering what is now Sweden started melting. Evidence has been found that there was human life in Sweden by 9000 BCE. The inhabitants were generally hunters and fishers, until about 550-800 CE when Sweden's inhabitants settled and became a primarily agricultural society.

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Urban History (Stockholm, Sweden) - English
URL: http://www.urbanhistory.su.se/

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The Institute of Urban History was founded in 1919 as a section of the Confederation of Swedish Towns. The initiative came from the confederation. Organizer and driving force was Yngve Larsson who in this project worked together with the historians Nils Herlitz and Nils Ahnlund.

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History of Finland - English
URL: http://www.pp.clinet.fi/~pkr01/historia/history.html

A selection of events and documents on the history of Finland(Swedish rule c.1200-1809,Russian rule 1809-1917,etc...).

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Project Runeberg - English
URL: http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/katalog.html

Nordic literature on the Internet since 1992. From Runes and the Poetic Edda to the Christmas messages of King Carl Gustaf XVI.

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Sweden -- Primary Documents - English
URL: http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/sweden.html

Texts in Project Runeberg. Historic Texts. Documents on the Swedish Rule of Finland.

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Swedish history (the s.c.nordic FAQ) - English
URL: http://www.lysator.liu.se/nordic/scn/faq731.html

The Nordic FAQ: Frequently Answered. A chronology of important dates. A list of Swedish monarchs.

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Some of the swedish Queens - English
URL: http://www.luth.se/luth/present/sweden/history/queens/

Swedish Queens in chronological order.

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Tacitus - English
URL: http://www.luth.se/luth/present/sweden/history/lit/tacitus/

Germania, Annales, Histoire.

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