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1 day ago · They reached Greenland and even set up a colony in Vinland, which is part of North America today. They did this long before Christopher Columbus arrived there. Impact on Scandinavian Geography. The Vikings changed the physical and cultural map of Scandinavia. They found and named many natural landmarks, such as islands and fjords.
4 days ago · The demography of Sweden is monitored by the Statistiska centralbyrån ( Statistics Sweden ). Sweden 's population was 10,555,448 (1 Nov 2023), making it the 15th-most populous country in Europe after Czech Republic, the 10th-most populous member state of the European Union, and the 87th-most populous country in the world.
- 10.83 births/1,000 population (2022)
- 0.5% (2022 est.)
- 9.46 deaths/1,000 population (2022)
- 10,538,026 (Apr 2023)
3 days ago · Europeans are the focus of European ethnology, the field of anthropology related to the various ethnic groups that reside in the states of Europe. Groups may be defined by common genetic ancestry, common language, common faith, etc. The total number of national minority populations in Europe is estimated at 105 million people, or 14% of 770 ...
1 day ago · Sweden, country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in northern Europe. It occupies the greater part of the peninsula, which it shares with Norway. The land slopes gently from the high mountains along the Norwegian frontier eastward to the Baltic Sea. Sweden’s capital and largest city is Stockholm.
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Apr 16, 2024 · These are used in Scandinavia, the North Atlantic Islands, and Germany. The language is divided into two branches: East Scandinavian, which includes Danish and Swedish, and West Scandinavian, which includes Icelandic and Faroese. There are also some mutual intelligibility issues between these languages.
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2 days ago · The Slavs or Slavic people are a group of peoples who speak Slavic languages.Slavs are geographically distributed throughout the northern parts of Eurasia; they predominantly inhabit Central Europe, Eastern Europe, and Southeastern Europe, though there is a large Slavic minority scattered across the Baltic states, Northern Asia, and Central Asia, and a substantial Slavic diaspora in the ...
Apr 25, 2024 · The History Files - Kalmar Union Norway (Apr. 25, 2024) Kalmar Union, Scandinavian union formed at Kalmar, Sweden, in June 1397 that brought the kingdoms of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark together under a single monarch until 1523. When Margaret I became ruler of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (1387–88), it was understood that she should, at the ...
