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    Sweden proper (Swedish: Egentliga Sverige, literally Actual Sweden) is a term used to distinguish those territories that were fully integrated into the...
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    abolished, and there was also a trend to set up respective estates in Sweden proper. The Great Reduction of 1680 put an end to these efforts of the nobility...
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    of Sweden's Eastern coast, from Småland to Hälsingland. Their departure from Sweden proper to Finland was encouraged and organized by the Swedish authorities...
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    authorities as Swedish was established as the sole official language of government. In fact, it remained a widely accepted view in Sweden proper that the Finns...
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    This is a list of possessions of Sweden held outside of Sweden proper during the early modern period. Fiefs that were held for a short period of time....
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  • was no lesser than the Swedish crown prince. Governors-general could also be appointed over parts of Sweden proper, today's Sweden and Finland, and usually...
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    members partitioned most of the Swedish dominions among themselves, destroying the Swedish dominium maris baltici. Sweden proper was invaded from the west by...
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    time of the Swedish Empire Sweden–Finland was identical to Sweden proper; other overseas possessions constituted the dominions of Sweden. However, a conceptual...
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    fled to Sweden proper. Kexholm was a sparsely inhabited part of Karelia on the Western and Northern shores of Lake Ladoga, annexed by Sweden in 1605....
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    Forest Finns (category Social history of Sweden)
    skogfinnar, Swedish: skogsfinnar) were Finnish migrants from Savonia and Northern Tavastia in Finland who settled in forest areas of Sweden proper and Norway...
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    in Finland were abolished in 2010. Abolished counties in current-day Sweden proper were: Skaraborg County + Gothenburg and Bohus County + Älvsborg County...
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    Finns proper (Finnish: varsinaissuomalaiset, Swedish: Egentliga Finnar) are a historic people and a modern subgroup (heimo) of the Finnish people. They...
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    consolidation of Sweden. According to Sverre Bagge, unification in Sweden centered on controlling the areas around the major lakes in Sweden. Sweden proper History...
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  • "Proper Education" is a remix of the 1979 song "Another Brick in the Wall, Part II" by Pink Floyd by the Swedish DJ and electronic music producer Eric...
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  • Great Famine of 1695–1697 (category 17th century in Sweden)
    worst affected were the Swedish province of Finland and Norrland in Sweden proper.[citation needed] The Great Famine of 1695–1697 was concurrent with...
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  • the kingdom of Sweden with roughly the same area Mainland Finland, Finland excluding the Åland islands Finland Österland Sweden proper This disambiguation...
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    Finnish nobility (category CS1 Swedish-language sources (sv))
    around 300–400 in Sweden proper and around 250–350 in Finland. (Actually, in the 1520s, their number was exceptionally low in Sweden proper, only 174, whereas...
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    archbishopric of Uppsala had been one of the most important sees in Sweden proper since Christianity first spread to this region in the ninth century...
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    encouraged to migrate from the Finnish part of the Kingdom of Sweden to Sweden proper, where they were initially well received by the Duke of Södermanland...
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    Finland Proper. Until 2019, its official English name was Finland Proper, a designation still used in Finnish (Varsinais-Suomi) and Swedish (Egentliga...
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    Gotland (redirect from Gotland, Sweden)
    Gotland Norsemen Old Norse Proto-Norse language Scandza Sweden during World War II Sweden proper "Gotland i siffror, pdf". www.gotland.se. Region Gotland...
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  • a total of 501 proper names of stars. Of the roughly 10,000 stars visible to the naked eye, only a few hundred have been given proper names in the history...
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    outside Sweden are sometimes called 'East-Swedes' (Swedish: östsvenskar), to distinguish them from the ethnic Swedes living in Sweden proper, called rikssvenskar...
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    early Scandinavian Roma who were deported in the 17th century from Sweden proper to Finland. The Kaale, however, maintain that their ancestors migrated...
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    a landing in Sweden proper. When the Baltic Fleet was approaching Umeå, news came that the Treaty of Åbo had been finalized, with Sweden ceding to Russia...
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  • proper names are proper nouns: Peter and Africa are both proper names and proper nouns; but Peter the Great and South Africa, while they are proper names...
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    Napoleon, Sweden gave the island back to France. One of the few African slaves bought to actual Sweden proper were Gustav Badin. He was taken to Sweden from...
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    Drabant Corps of Charles XII (category Special forces of Sweden)
    defense of Stralsund and the Battle of Stresow in 1715, before reaching Sweden proper the next year. The remaining Drabants were merged with the newly raised...
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    Finns had migrated to Sweden proper, particularly Värmland, from whence they came to America. Many of the Finns spoke Swedish as a first language, and...
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    language Viking Norsemen Scandinavian prehistory Scandinavia Swedish language Sweden proper Sweden Swedes Danes Danish language Denmark Norwegians Norwegian...
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