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2 days ago · The monarchy of Sweden is centred on the monarchical head of state of Sweden, by law a constitutional and hereditary monarchy with a parliamentary system. There have been kings in what now is the Kingdom of Sweden for more than a millennium.
4 days ago · Carl XVI Gustaf (Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertus; born 30 April 1946) is King of Sweden. Carl Gustaf was born during the reign of his paternal great-grandfather, King Gustaf V. He is the youngest child and only son of Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, and Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
Jun 7, 2024 · Carl XVI Gustaf (born April 30, 1946, Stockholm, Sweden) has been the king of Sweden since 1973. The only son of King Gustav VI Adolf’s eldest son, Prince Gustav Adolf (who died in an air crash in 1947), Carl Gustaf became crown prince in 1950, when his grandfather acceded to the throne.
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Jun 23, 2024 · The early Vasa kings created the Swedish state. Its chief characteristic was a strong monarchy in a rather rustic and backward economy (with the mining industry a noteworthy exception). Its chief weaknesses were opposition from the high nobility and a thirst for revenge on Denmark.
2 days ago · By European standards, Stockholm was a small town and at the beginning of the 16th century around 6,000 people lived here, so it was not a significant place in terms of population. But Stockholm became increasingly important for the kings to control, as a key to the entire kingdom of Sweden. Whoever had Stockholm could consider himself king of ...
Jun 13, 2024 · The article argues both that Skáldatal is evidence of the oral tradition about Swedish kings that existed on Iceland independent of Swedish written sources and that it provides one explanation of the sources of Icelandic knowledge about Swedish kings and history: the many skalds in Skáldatal’s list are continuously active informants, from ...
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Jun 9, 2024 · Kristina Gyllenstierna in Västerås cathedral. Political intrigues, sieges, attacks and campaigns characterized the 1510s. The biggest clash took place just south of Stockholm and is called the Battle of Brännkyrka. The danish king Christian II had put a siege on Stockholm but Sten Sture the Younger emerged victorious from the battle.
