| | Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - List of Swedish regiments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) |
 | | Many new regiments were also raised by enlisted mercenaries in wartime, for example, only one fifth of soldiers in the Swedish army at the Battle of Breitenfeld were of Swedish or Finnish origin. |
 | | Storregementen, also regiments of the land (landsregementen), these regiments were organized by Gustav II Adolph in the end of the 1610s from the smaller units fänika and fana raised in the various parts of Sweden during the time of Gustav Vasa: |
 | | The original provincial regiments (landskapsregementen) were raised by splitting the old Grand Regiments, forming 20 infantry (actually 21 as Smalandia Regiment was split into Kronoberg and Jönköping Regiments) and eight cavalry regiments as written in the Swedish constitution of 1634. |
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