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  Sweden Vacations - Hotels Sweden - Sweden Hotels
Sweden is a country that is well known for its weather.
There are many things to do indoors in the bigger cities in Sweden, such as Stockholm, indoor attractions such a museums and other attractions can be quite popular at all times of the year.
If you are interested in visiting Sweden, you should plan your trip according to the kinds of things that you would like to do there.
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  Sweden Travel
Sweden's way of life has often been called the "middle way", because it combines private enterprise with a government that greatly influences the development of the economy.
Sweden is famous for smorgasbord, an assortment of cold and hot foods placed on a large table for self-service.
Sweden was one of the last regions to lose the ice that covered most of Europe thousands of years ago.
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  Christian I of Denmark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1448 Christian was elected to the vacant Danish throne, as a cognatic descendant of King Eric V of Denmark.
(Christian's mother Hedwig of Schauenburg was a descendant, and in her issue the heiress-general, of Ingeborg of Mecklenburg, a daughter of Euphemia of Sweden (Duchess consort of Mecklenburg), and thus sister of King Albrecht of Sweden (Albert of Mecklenburg).
Euphemia of Sweden herself was the sister of King Magnus II of Sweden (King Magnus Eriksson) and daughter of Duke Eric of Sudermannia, the second son of Magnus I of Sweden (King Magnus Ladislaus Birgersson).
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 Christian I of Denmark
Christian I of Denmark (1426-1481) was king of Denmark (1448-1481), king regent of the Kalmar Union in Norway (1450-1481) and king regent in Sweden (1457-1464).
In Sweden his short tenure as regent was preceded by viceroys, Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna and Erik Axelsson Tott and succeeded by viceroy Kettil Karlsson Vasa.
Christian married Dorothea of Brandenburg (1430 - November 25, 1495), the widow of King Christopher of Bavaria and thus dowager[?] queen, on October 28, 1449 in Copenhagen.
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 Encyclopedia: Gustav-I-of-Sweden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Erik XIV of Sweden (December 13, 1533–February 26, 1577) was the son of Gustav I of Sweden and Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg.
Princess Catherine of Sweden (Prinsessan Katarina) (November 10, 1584 – December 13, 1638) was the daughter of Charles IX of Sweden.
Christian II (1481 –; 1559) was a Danish monarch and King of Denmark, Norway (1513 –; 1523) and Sweden (1520 – 1521), under the Kalmar Union.
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 Encyclopedia: Christian I of Denmark   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
May 21 - Christian I, King of Denmark and Norway dies and is succeeded by his son John (1481-1513) With the death of Duke Charles IV of Anjou, Anjou was reverted...
Eufemia Ericsdotter, Duchess Consort of Mecklenburg, was born as a heiress of Sweden and of Norway, in 1317, and died sometime in 1370.
Christian's final attempt of regaining Sweden ended in a total miltary failure at Brunkeberg (outside Stockholm) October 1471 where he was defeated by the Swedish regent Sten Sture the Elder who was supported by the Danish-Swedish nobleman's clan the Thott family.
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 AllRefer.com - Christian II (Scandinavian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Christian II 1481–1559, king of Denmark and Norway (1513–23) and Sweden (1520–23), son and successor of King John.
In Denmark, Christian earned the hatred of the nobles and high clergy by thorough reforms in favor of the lower and middle classes, by inviting Lutheran preachers to Copenhagen, and by placing Sigbrit, mother of his Dutch mistress, in charge of the finances of the realm.
Christian fled, but in 1532 he was captured while attempting to recover the throne.
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 List of Swedish monarchs : Sweden/Kings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
1066-1067 : VII of Sweden">Eric VII of Sweden[?] (Erik (VII) Stenkilsson)
1130-1156 : Sverker I of Sweden[?] (Sverker den äldre) - The House of Sverker[?]
1160-1167 : VII of Sweden">Charles VII of Sweden[?] (Karl Sverkersson) - The House of Sverker[?]
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 Ancestors and Family of Christian III of Denmark Oldenburg
The eldest son of Frederick I, king of Denmark and Norway, Christian was educated as a Lutheran and showed Protestant zeal as statholder (chief executive) in the Danish provinces of Schleswig and Holstein (1526).
Christian III allied with Gustavus I of Sweden to defeat Lübeck in 1536.
Christian married Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg, daughter of Magnus of Saxe-Lauenburg and Katharina of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, on 29 Oct 1525 in Lauenburg.
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 Sweden,Sweden & Swedish laws, Sweden and hate crime, Swedish law and freedom of speech & hate crime, ...
The arrest of this pastor in Sweden is only a foretaste of what is to come, if homosexual advocates and their ideology gain traction in other nations.
Sweden passed its hate speech statute in 2002, explicitly including "church sermons" as subject to the law's restrictions.
As the Riksdag, Sweden's parliament, debated the legislation, the nation's chancellor of justice released a public note stating that a church sermon characterizing homosexual behaviors as sinful "might" be considered a criminal offense.
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Christian X was born September 26, 1870, near Copenhagen, Denmark.
Christian X was born in 1870 at Charlottenlund.
Christian X Christian X of Denmark (September 26, 1870 at Charlottenlund palace near Copenhagen - April 20, 1947) was King...
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 Encyclopedia: Frederick IX of Denmark   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Jump to: navigation, search Christian X of Denmark (Christian Carl Frederik Albert Alexander Vilhelm) (September 26, 1870 – April 20, 1947) was King of Denmark from 1912 to 1947 and of Iceland between 1918 and 1944.
His Royal Highness Joachim Holger Waldemar Christian, Prince of Denmark (born June 7, 1969), is the younger son of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and her husband, Prince Consort Henrik of Denmark.
Queen Alexandrine of Denmark (December 24, 1879- December 28, 1952) was the consort of King Christian X of Denmark She was born a Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, in the city of Schwerin.
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 Sweden Info
Sweden, which occupies the eastern part of the Scandinavian peninsula, is the fourth-largest country in Europe, and is one-tenth larger than California.
Sweden emerged from the Napoleonic Wars with the acquisition of Norway from Denmark and with a new royal dynasty stemming from Marshal Jean Bernadotte of France, who became King Charles XIV (181844).
The artificial union between Sweden and Norway led to an uneasy relationship, and the union was finally dissolved in 1905.
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 Religion in Sweden
At the parliamentary assembly in Västerås in 1544, Sweden was proclaimed an evangelical (Lutheran) kingdom.
The Church of Sweden's Association of Parishes is an employer's association representing the interests of parishes and ecclesiastical districts.
The Christian Council is organized through a General Secretariat subdivided into four separate units: (1) Mission, Evangelism and Development assistance (Svenska Missionsrådet); this unit is equivalent to the office of the Swedish Mission Council; (2) Theology and Local/Regional Ecumenism; (3) Church and Society; (4) Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation.
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 Chronology of Sweden
The frontier between Sweden and Denmark is established by King Emund Slemme of the Svear, and King Sven Tjugoskägg of the Danes.
Sverker, a nobleman of a tribe of Östergötland magnates, marries the widow of the last Stenkil king, and is acknowledged as King of Sweden.
Sweden is granted its own archbishop, with Stefan from Alvastra monastery in Östergötland ordained in Old Uppsala.
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 woodgate - pafg91 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Astrid of Sweden Princess [Parents] was born on 17 Nov 1905.
Charles XV King of Sweden [Parents] was born on 3 May 1826 in Stockholm,Sweden.
Christian X King of Denmark [Parents] was born on 26 Sep 1870 in Charlottenlund,Nr: Copenhagen,Denmark.
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 Danish Kings · Christian 2.
Christian 2.s ten-year reign as King can be divided into three periods, separated by two catastrophes: The fall of Torben Oxe, and the Stockholm Blood Bath.
Christian was hailed as co-regent in the Duchies of Slesvig and Holsten (in southern Jutland), and then followed the coronation ceremonies at The Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen and in Oslo.
Christian II charged Torben Oxe, the Lord Lieutenant of Copenhagen Castle, with having caused Dyveke's death, and in spite of the fact that the Privy Council and the court, led by the Queen, interceded, the King had Torben Oxe beheaded in Sct.
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 Shorn of tax support, Sweden church slips Christian Century - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Church of Sweden is now member-supported by a church fee equal on average to 1 percent of a member's income.
The declining number of Lutherans in Sweden corresponds to a wider trend in Europe, where there were 36,001,617 Lutherans at the end of 2003, representing a decrease of 640,467 from 2001, according to figures released by the Lutheran World Federation at the end of February.
Sweden's growing numbers of immigrants have brought with them their own religions, and about 250,000 people in the country are estimated to be Muslims.
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 Rulers of Denmark, Sweden, Norway
Succeeding rulers were unable to enforce their claims as rulers of Sweden until 1520, when Christian II conquered Sweden.
Audio 1:40 min - Hans Christian Andersen, author of some of the world's most endearing fairy tales, was born in a slum in Odense, Denmark, on April 2, 1805.
Hans Christian Andersen, author of some of the world's most endearing fairy tales, was born in a slum in Odense, Denmark, on April 2, 1805.
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 About Sweden.
Sweden is a country in the north, not the country with the watches and the cheese (that’s Switzerland, which most people know except some less intelligent Americans).
Sweden is the country that brought you ABBA, Greta Garbo and Absolute Vodka and should never be forgiven for letting the Volvo(-drivers), Ace of Base and surstromming out in the world.
Sweden was among the world’s first welfare states and it still is, but the economy strategy has changed the last few years.
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 AllRefer.com - Christian IV (Scandinavian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Christian IV 1577–1648, king of Denmark and Norway (1588–1648), son and successor of Frederick II.
Aroused when Charles IX of Sweden asserted authority over Lapland, he made war on Sweden (the so-called Kalmar War, 1611–13) and largely dictated the peace.
Christian, with the help of Gustavus II of Sweden, raised the siege of Stralsund, but in 1629 he signed with Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II a separate peace that was lenient to Denmark.
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 Sweden
Following comprehensive media reports on Sweden's relations with the Nazis during the Second World War, there is a new willingness on the part of the government and the general population to assess the nation's war-time role and confront difficult questions about its history.
Sweden approved 4,800 residence applications during 1996, of which 15 per cent were from refugees, and granted 2,550 individuals some form of protection.
In March 1997, in a lecture hosted by the Christian organization of Saint Lukas in Karlskrona (southern Sweden), Bergman repeated his earlier assertion and added: 'It is not necessarily true that six million Jews were killed [during the Holocaust].' His lecture was extensively reported in the media and provoked strong public condemnation in Karlskrona..
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 Religious flags in Sweden
The Church of Sweden is a Lutheran Christian church, the biggest religious society in Sweden, and was the state church until 31 December 1999.
It had the proportions of the flag of Sweden and the colours of the Vatican flag and was displayed outside a Catholic church in Stockholm.
It is the flag of the Catholic cathedral, not of the Catholic Church in Sweden.
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 WHKMLA : History of Sweden, 1448-1523
While Danish King Christian maintained that the Kalmar Union was not dissolved and he thus had a claim for the crowns of both Norway and Sweden, the island of GOTLAND, claimed both by Sweden and Denmark was an immediate bone of contention.
The Swedish Riksrad (council of the realm), for the larger part of the period concerned, accepted the view that Sweden was a part of the Kalmar Union; however it saw no need to hurry the election of a king and rather delayed such an election by the way of negotiation.
Sweden's economy was dominated by agriculture; the population of Sweden proper (without Finland) is estimated as having been 500,000 c.1400 and 750,000 c.1500.
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 Christian Council of Sweden: The globalization of solidarity
As members of a worldwide Christian community, we are constantly being challenged by other churches and individuals demanding respect for their way of formulating problems and their attempts to seek solutions to them.
To broaden the basis of the Christian Council of Sweden's contribution, we asked a number of persons in different parts of the world to reflect on the under-lying values of globalization and how globalization should be shaped in order to focus on people instead of economics or technology.
Sweden may have been the prime example of a model where all citizens had a chance to participate in the economy.
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 European Christian Mission - Sweden
Sweden is known as the most secularized country of the world.
The northern part of Sweden is quite different from the south.
To reach the Saami, it is important that they can find a Christian community which appeals to their own culture and where they can use their own language.
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 Knowledge King - List of Swedish monarchs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
This is a list of Swedish monarchs, that is, the Kingss and ruling Queenss of Sweden with Regents and Viceroys of the Kalmar Union up until the present time.
1160-1167 : Charles VII of Sweden (Karl Sverkersson) - The House of Sverker
1950-1973 : Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden (Gustav VI Adolf)
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 The Local - Church leaders threaten government over abortion
Two of Sweden's most influential church leaders have threatened to encourage Christians to vote against the government at the next election, following a proposal that foreign women should be allowed to come to Sweden for abortions.
Sweden's Catholic bishop Anders Arborelius and leader of the evangelical Philadephia Church in Stockholm, Sten-Gunnar Hedin hinted that the Christian Democrats, traditionally supported by religious voters, could be hit hardest.
Arborelius and Hedin write that they, together with a majority of Christian leaders in Sweden, "could be forced to work actively to reduce the chances of the Alliance being re-elected," at the next general election in 2010.
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 CHARLES XIV - Online Information article about CHARLES XIV
Norway during King Oscar's reign had great influence on political life in Sweden, and more than once it Relations seemed as if the union between the two countries was with on the point of being wrecked.
act as " the king of Norway," the union with Sweden was in consequence dissolved.
In Sweden, where they were least of all prepared for the turn things had taken, the action of the Storthing created the greatest surprise and resentment.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /CHA_CHR/CHARLES_XIV.html   (6249 words)

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