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23 hours ago · The name Sweden was derived from the Svear, or Suiones, a people mentioned as early as 98 ce by the Roman author Tacitus. The country’s ancient name was Svithiod. Stockholm has been the permanent capital since 1523. Sweden. Sweden occupies the greater part of the Scandinavian Peninsula, which it shares with Norway.
- Scandinavian Peninsula
Scandinavian Peninsula, large promontory of northern Europe,...
- Economy
Sweden - Economy, Trade, Manufacturing: Sweden’s per capita...
- Climate
Sweden - Arctic, Temperate, Maritime: About 15 percent of...
- The Reign of Charles Xii
Sweden - Charles XII, Expansion, War: Charles XII acceded to...
- Cultural Institutions
Sweden - Museums, Art, Music: The country’s cultural...
- Political Conflict
Sweden - Politics, Conflict, Union: After Charles’s death,...
- Scandinavian Peninsula
2 days ago · The persistent rise in SSTs in the Nordic Seas over at least the past ~120 years has been striking (Fig. S22), consistent with the progressive ‘Atlantification’ along the Fram Strait region ...
2 days ago · Norway. Norway, country of northern Europe that occupies the western half of the Scandinavian peninsula. Nearly half of the inhabitants of the country live in the far south, in the region around Oslo, the capital. About two-thirds of Norway is mountainous, and off its much-indented coastline lie, carved by deep glacial fjords, some 50,000 islands.
4 days ago · Old Norse, Old Nordic, [1] or Old Scandinavian is a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and their overseas settlements and chronologically coincides with the Viking Age, the Christianization of Scandinavia and the ...
1 day ago · Viking expansion was the historical movement which led Norse explorers, traders and warriors, the latter known in modern scholarship as Vikings, to sail most of the North Atlantic, reaching south as far as North Africa and east as far as Russia, and through the Mediterranean as far as Constantinople and the Middle East, acting as looters, traders, colonists and mercenaries.
5 days ago · The current theory proposed that the hole was the imprint of a mast and that, in any event, the ship was interred in the mound at least 150 years before the royal embedment supposedly took place.
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4 days ago · Over this, women often wore a dress or a tunic called a kirtle. Despite being a peninsula and housing thousands of islands, Scandinavia had ample access to wool. Kirtles were made from wool, helping to keep out the arctic conditions in winter and the temperamental weather in the warmer months.
