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 Swedish Pomerania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Royal Government of Pomerania (Die königliche landesregierung), was composed of the Governor General, who always were a Swedish Privy Councillor, as chairman and five Councillors of the Royal Government, among them the President of the Appellate Court, the Chancellor and the Castle Hauptmann of Stettin, overinspector of the Royal Amts.
The position of Pomerania in the Swedish Realm came to depend on the talks that were opened up between the Estates of Pomerania and the Government of Sweden.
Swedish Pomerania (Swedish: Svenska Pommern) was a Dominion under the Swedish Crown from the 17th to the 19th century, situated on the German Baltic Sea coast.
www.bexley.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Swedish_Pomerania   (1718 words)

  
 Governor General Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography
Governor-General (or Governor General) is a term used both historically and currently to designate the appointed representative of a head of state or their government for a particular territory, historically in a colonial context, but no longer necessarily in that form.
The Governor General became the direct representative of the country's Sovereign only, and relations with the United Kingdom were placed in the hands of a British high commissioner in each country.
From 1905 to 1935 the Philippines was administered by a Governor General appointed by the United States.
www.variedtastes.com /encyclopedia/Governor_General   (1415 words)

  
 Timeline 600CE to 999CE
King Olaf led Swedish Vikings in retaliation and overcame the towns of Seeburg and Apuole (Apulia).
One Abbasid general, Abdullah, invited 80 Umayyad leaders to a banquet where they were killed by Abdullah’s men.
656 Uthman appointed members of his own family as regional governors and caused bitter jealousy among other families.
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 Anders Torstenson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Count Anders Torstenson (1641-1686), Swedish statesman, son of Lennart Torstenson and member of the Privy Council, was from 1674 to 1681 Governor-General of Estonia.
The family became extinct on the sword-side in 1727.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anders_Torstenson   (74 words)

  
 realm
It is also frequently used to refer to territories "under" a monarch, yet not a physical part of his or her "kingdom"; for example, the various Commonwealth Realms under the British crown.
It is particularly used for those states which use the word Kingdom in the title (for example, the United Kingdom), to avoid clumsy repetition of the word 'kingdom' in a sentence.
Realm is an old term still used as an alternative word for Kingdom.
www.fact-library.com /realm.html   (151 words)

  
 Hans Henric von Essen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In his capacity as the governor of Norway, between 1814 and 1816, he also served as the Prime Minister of Norway.
He served as the Over-Governor of Stockholm from 1795 to 1797 and as the Governor-General of Pomerania from 1800 to 1809.
He was appointed Colonel in 1787, Major General in 1795 and Field Marshal in 1811.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hans_Henrik_von_Essen   (159 words)

  
 Swedish minorities (the s.c.nordic FAQ)
The priests had to speak Swedish with the bishop but Finnish with the parishioners, but knowledge in Swedish was expected from the clergy in all of the realm anyway.
The expansion of the realm in the 17th century led to a weakened position for the Finnish language.
In 1642 it was modified to an instruction to deport all Gypsies from county to county in the direction of the borders of the realm.
www.lysator.liu.se /(ns)/nordic/scn/faq738.html   (3672 words)

  
 Terra_Scania
The term was introduced by the Swedish historian and Scandinavist Martin Weibull in the political appeal Samlingar till Skånes historia in 1868, to illuminate the pre-Swedish history of Skåne, Blekinge and Halland.
Instead Swedish history was taught, and the Scanian history before 1658, for instance concerning the list of monarchs, was disregarded as Danish history.
The population initially were opposed to the Swedish reforms, as can be ascertained from church records and court transcripts.
www.apawn.com /search.php?title=Terra_Scania   (738 words)

  
 11200.txt
The king of Prussia and several of his generals were anxious to rob Austria of some of her territory, as had been the custom in the past whenever one nation defeated another in war.
The generals, many of them as old as his father, began offering him advice, but he impatiently waved them aside and announced that he was going to wage war on a plan hitherto unheard of.
Very soon, we begin to hear of Roman governors who, when put in charge of conquered states, used their offices only to plunder the helpless inhabitants and to return to Rome after their terms were finished, laden with ill-gotten gains.
www.gutenberg.org /files/11200/11200.txt   (21747 words)

  
 FORCES International - Powered by reason, driven by passion
As the attorney general of Washington, Gregoire certainly had the name recognition in the contest for governor.
Although attorneys general don't often bring home the bacon for the citizens, Gregoire, so she harped, had brought home a suckling pig in the form of the multi-billion tobacco settlement.
Further, it appears that what did her in is also responsible for a net Democratic loss of three statewide offices, including attorney general.
www.forces.org /fparch/newpage/11-26-04.htm   (4601 words)

  
 The Bid Red Scare
The Governor of Massachusetts was an inconspicuous, sour-faced man with a reputation for saying as little as possible and never jeopardizing his political position by being betrayed into a false move.
Dwight Braman, president of the Allied Patriotic Societies, told Governor Smith of New York that the Reds were holding 10,000 meetings in the country every week and that 350 radical newspapers had been established in the preceding six months.
Harding was mouthing generalizations from his front porch, and the desperate Mr.
xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/Allen/ch3.html   (6861 words)

  
 Swedish Roots - for the descendants of the emigrants
1634 A new adminstrative division of the realm was instituted.
Swedish Roots - for the descendants of the emigrants
This was the foundation of the Swedish nobility.
www.genealogi.se /roots/year.htm   (1990 words)

  
 Provincial Governors of Finland - Enpsychlopedia
The Governor, Maaherra, or Landshövding, of a province of Finland heads the activities of the State Provincial Office, Lääninhallitus, or Länsstyrelse.
www.grohol.com /psypsych/Provincial_Governors_of_Finland   (106 words)

  
 Jack Herer - Chapter 10
* Generally, those who grew and/or used hemp for everyday industrial uses did not know and were not taught (by religious law/threat/taboo) that their priest/shaman/witch doctor/etc. used different extractions from different parts of the exact same plant for sacrament, medicine, unguent, and as a commune with the Gods.
This perverted prosecution-for-profit model, used almost exactly the same way today by state and federal drug warriors, and just as self-righteously, was given to us at the insistence of president Ronald Reagan in 1984 and was written for Congress by then Congressman Dan Lungren, former California Attorney General.
Ronald and even former first lady Nancy "Just Say No" Reagan are reported to have smoked pot in the California Governor's mansion.
www.jackherer.com /chapter10.html   (4754 words)

  
 Fact sheet Finland — Virtual Finland
The official status of Swedish has historical roots in the period when Finland was a part of the Swedish realm, a period that lasted from the early 13th century until 1809.
The Czar declares Finland an autonomous Grand Duchy with himself as constitutional monarch represented by a governor general.
As for the country's general prosperity, the net wealth of Finnish households is at the average level for member states of the European Union.
virtual.finland.fi /finfo/english/facteng.html   (1721 words)

  
 finlandfacts
The Czar declares Finland a semi-autonomous Grand Duchy with himself as constitutional monarch represented by a governor general.
Finnish is spoken by 93.5 percent of the population and Swedish is spoken by 6.3 percent of the population.
Because six percent of the Finnish population is Swedish, every student in Finland is required to study Swedish.
personalweb.smcvt.edu /tmatikainen/finlandfacts.htm   (691 words)

  
 Casebook: Jack the Ripper - Russian Freemasonry
Members of the Swedish groups generally adopted new names as a sign of their inner regeneration and participated in communal efforts to discover through reading and meditation the inner truth of Christianity.
On 25 May 1779, a Swedish Grand Provincial Lodge of Russia was officially opened according to the Swedish ritual and thereafter vied for supremacy with the Grand Provincial Lodge of Elagin.
These attacks were part of Catherine's general disillusionment with the French Enlightenment in the wake of the French Revolution which she took as a personal attack.
www.casebook.org /dissertations/freemasonry/russianfm.html   (15395 words)

  
 Arguments for Monarchy - Canadian Monarchist ONLINE
Normally the Queen resides in her most ancient realm, the United Kingdom, but she is regularly present in her newer kingdoms around the world.
In Canada, as in each of the Realms, she acts only on the advice of her Canadian constitutional advisors, the Ministry of the day.
Princess Louise played a role in the Canadian cultural flowering in the latter pat of the nineteenth century: the Royal Canadian Academy and the National Gallery of Canada are both associated with her.
www.interlog.com /~rakhshan/parg.html   (2404 words)

  
 BrothersJudd Blog: December 2003 Archives
The truth is that Europe generally operates according to a fairly hardboiled view of the world and its place within it; the course it has pursued for decades has been steady and consistent.
Blix is a former Swedish foreign minister who led the International Atomic Energy Agency from 1981 to 1997 and retired from the United Nations in June.
The award is endowed by the family of the slain Swedish prime minister and the governing Social Democratic party.
www.brothersjudd.com /blog/archives/2003_12.html   (17160 words)

  
 wikien.info: Main_Page
It is made up of the Swedish Provinces of Scania, Hallandia and Blechingia.
Geographically located in the south of Sweden, usually considered as a part of Götaland and bordering to the provinces of Westrogothia and Smalandia.
www.hostingciamca.com /index.php?title=Terra_Scania   (166 words)

  
 The Ultimate Carl Carlsson Gyllenhielm - American History Information Guide and Reference
He was appointed Field Marshal in 1616, Privy Councilor in 1617, Governor General of Ingria in 1617 and Lord High Admiral in 1620.
Baron Carl Carlsson Gyllenhielm (1574-1650) was a Swedish soldier and politician.
www.historymania.com /american_history/Carl_Carlsson_Gyllenhielm   (78 words)

  
 Swedish Estonia
The dominion arose when the northern part of present-day Estonia were united under Swedish rule in 1561.
Estonia was a dominion of Sweden from 1561 until 1719, when it was ceded to Russia in the Treaty of Nystad, following the outcome in the Great Northern War.
www.therfcc.org /RFCC/swedish-estonia-96491.html   (102 words)

  
 Articles - Bremen-Verden
The Second Bremian War in 1666 was on the whole an unsuccessful attempt on the Swedish side to assert its authority over the city.
The town of Wildeshausen was situated as an exclave to the main territory of the dominion.
It came under Swedish control by the Peace of Westphalia, which concluded the Thirty Years' War, and consisted of the bishoprics of Bremen and Verden.
www.lastring.com /articles/Bremen-Verden   (218 words)

  
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The official standing of Swedish has historical roots in the period when Finland was part of the Swedish realm, a status that began approximately at the beginning of the 13th century and lasted until 1809.
After the general election of 1995 the Social Democratic Party had 63 parliamentary seats, the Centre Party 44, the National Coalition 39, the Left Wing Alliance 22, the Swedish People's Party 12, the Greens 9, the Finnish Christian League 7, the Finnish Progressive Party 2, the Finnish Rural Party 1, the Ecological Party 1.
The Czar declares Finland a semi-autonomous Grand Duchy with himself as constitutional monarch represented by a governor general.
www.wayabroad.com /pack/pack04/15791.htm   (2172 words)

  
 The Ultimate Category:Dominions of Sweden - American History Information Guide and Reference
This generally meant that they were ruled by Governors-General under the Swedish monarch.
The Dominions of Sweden were territories that historically came under control of the Swedish Crown, but never became fully integrated into Sweden proper.
www.historymania.com /american_history/Category:Dominions_of_Sweden   (57 words)

  
 List Of Swedish Politicians Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography
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 Janus Head: Links
In 1984 "Governor Mario M. Cuomo signed into law the legislation creating the New York State Writers Institute, giving it goals and responsibilities to conduct a broad range of cultural and educational literary activities.
The essays are aimed at the general reader interested in contemporary cultural issues.
Generally has a theme (issue #1 was "On the Road").
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 Introduction to World Statesmen
In a general sense, Palatine nobles are those invested not only with the honors and privileges usual to their rank, but
of roughly regimental level, or it could mean the Governor of a district or small province.
Beylerbey (Turkish): A military commander of very senior rank, or the governor of a major province or region.
www.worldstatesmen.org /INTRO.html   (4597 words)

  
 Earth Day celebrations
Children, in particular, were the focus of attention at the May 8-10 UN General Assembly Special Session on Children where more than 60 heads of state and some 6,000 participants-including children gathered at UN Headquarters to review progress made for children since the landmark 1990 World Summit for Children, including the Swedish delegation..
The contributions of the Swedish people, particularly in the area of peace and the environment, were highlighted at the 2002 UN Peace Bell Ceremony on the March equinox.
Nane Annan, Swedish author,and wife of the UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, was honored at the event, and represented by Gillian Sorensen, Under-Secretary-General for External Relations.
www.goodnewsbroadcast.com /earthsolstice0602.html   (6525 words)

  
 J.R. Ritman Library - Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica
Nikolay Ivanovich Saltykov (1736-1816), general and field marshall, was appointed guardian to Catherine's son Paul Petrovich in 1773.
In 1772 he was appointed a senior civil servant in the districts Rastatt and Kuppenheim, later he became governor of Rastatt.
Frick apparently also gave performances on his glass harmonica to London audiences to general applause, until he supposedly gave up the instrument in 1786 because of its ruinous effects on his nerves
www.ritmanlibrary.nl /c/p/res/art/art_05.html   (8248 words)

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