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	Sweden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sweden was first mentioned in the 1st century, by Roman historian Tacitus, who wrote that the Suiones tribe lived out in the sea and were powerful in both arms and ships.
		Sweden is known for having an even distribution of income, with a Gini coefficient at 0.21 in 2001 (one of the most even income distributions in the industrialized world).
		In the south of Sweden leaf-bearing trees are prolific, in the north pines, spruces and hardy birches dominate the landscape.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sweden (4811 words)

	Västergötland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		is one of the historical provinces of Sweden (landskap), situated in the southwest of Sweden.
		The province borders Bohuslän, Dalsland, Värmland, Närke, Östergötland, Småland and Halland.
		The province of Västergötland represents the heartland of Götaland, and it is believed that it was once an independent petty kingdom with a long line of Geatish kings.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Westrogothia (1137 words)

	Provinces of Sweden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The provinces have no administrative function today but remain historical legacies and the means of cultural identification, and their traditions are maintained by present day authorities.
		In addition, the administrative units are subject to continuous changes (see article Counties of Sweden) – several new counties were for instance created in the 1990s – while the provinces have their historical borders outlined since centuries.
		The historical provinces were held as duchies, but newly conquered provinces added to the kingdom either received the status of a duchy or a county, depending on its importance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Provinces_of_Sweden (707 words)

	The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Sweden @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sweden was a member of the European Free Trade Association from 1960 to 1994; in 1995 it joined the European Union.
		The history of 19th-century Sweden, under Charles XIV (reigned 1818-44), Oscar I (1844-59), Charles XV (1859-72), and Oscar II (1872-1907), was one of progressive liberalization in government and of industrial development.
		Sweden entered the United Nations in 1946, and Dag Hammarskjöld, a Swedish diplomat, was secretary-general of the organization from 1953 until his death in 1961.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1E1:Sweden&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (2269 words)

	Sweden - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sweden was part of the Marshall aid package but continued to stay non-aligned during the Cold War, and is still not a member of any military alliance.
		Sweden is known for having an uneven distribution of income, where the income in major towns are higher than in the countryside.
		In the south of Sweden leaf-bearing trees are prolific, in the north pines and hardy birches dominate the landscape.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Swedish_realm (4432 words)

	Learn more about Counties of Sweden in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A County, or Län, is an administrative and political subdivision of Sweden.
		Sweden is divided into 21 counties, and in each county there is a County Administrative Board as well as a County Council.
		The Counties were established in 1634 on count Axel Oxenstierna's initiative, superseding the Provinces of Sweden to introduce a modern administration.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /c/co/counties_of_sweden.html (339 words)

	Småland - RecipeFacts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Provinces serve no administrative function in Sweden today; instead this is done by Counties of Sweden.
		The city of Kalmar is one of the oldest cities of Sweden, and was in the medieval age the third largest city in Sweden, when it was a center for export of iron, which, in many cases, was handled by German merchants.
		Ecclesiastically, the province coincides with the diocese of Växjö.
	www.recipeland.com /encyclopaedia/index.php/Smalandia (962 words)

	Provinces of Sweden - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		In addition, the administrative units are subject to continous changes (see article Counties of Sweden) – several new counties were for instance created in the 1990s – while the provinces have their historical borders outlined since centuries.
		The most permanent acquisitions were from the Treaty of Roskilde in 1658, in which the former Danish Scanian lands – the provinces of Skåne, Blekinge and Halland – along with the Norwegian Bohuslän, Jämtland and Härjedalen, became Swedish and gradually integrated.
		Provinces of Sweden, History, Heraldry, Provinces according to lands, Götaland, Svealand, Norrland, Österlanden, See also, Historical regions and Provinces of Sweden.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Provinces_of_Sweden (703 words)

	Swedish subdivisions into provinces and counties
		Sweden is in northern Europe and the capital is Stockholm.
		Norrland is in northern Sweden, encompassing the traditional provinces (landskap) of Gästrikland, Hälsingland, Medelpad, Ångermanland, Västerbotten, Norrbotten, Härjedalen, Jämtland, and Lappland.
		Götaland is the region of southern Sweden, comprising the provinces (landskap) of Västergötland, Dalsland, Östergötland, Småland, Öland, Gotland, Bohuslän, Skåne, Halland, and Blekinge.
	www.algonet.se /~hogman/swe_province-county.htm (780 words)

	Sweden. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Sweden is one of the world’s leading producers of iron ore; important mines are at Kiruna and Gällivare.
		He was deposed in 1599, and his uncle became regent and then king of Sweden as Charles IX (reigned 1607–11).
		The history of 19th-century Sweden, under Charles XIV (reigned 1818–44), Oscar I (1844–59), Charles XV (1859–72), and Oscar II (1872–1907), was one of progressive liberalization in government and of industrial development.
	www.bartleby.com /65/sw/Sweden.html (2264 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Dominions of Sweden
		The Dominions of Sweden or Svenska besittningar were territories that historically came under control of the Swedish Crown, but never became fully integrated with Sweden.
		By the Treaty of Oliva between Poland and Sweden in 1660 following the Northern Wars the Polish king renounced all claims to the Swedish throne and Livonia was formally ceded to Sweden.
		Sweden received the German town of Wismar with the surrounding countryside in the Peace of Westphalia (1648).
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Dominions_of_Sweden (685 words)

	Encyclopedia: Provinces of Sweden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sweden falls into two main geographical regions: the north (Norrland), comprising about two thirds of the country, which is mountainous (except for a narrow strip of lowland along the Gulf of Bothnia); and the south (Svealand and Götaland), which is mostly low-lying and where most of the population lives.
		In the 16th century, Gustav Vasa fought for an independent Sweden, crushing an attempt to restore the Kalmar Union and laying the foundation for modern Sweden.
		Sweden's predominantly agricultural economy shifted gradually from village to private farm-based agriculture during the Industrial Revolution, but this change failed to bring economic and social improvements commensurate with the rate of population growth.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Provinces-of-Sweden (483 words)

	Provinces of Sweden, Rolf Ströms site
		The provinces in the part of Sweden called "Götaland" were divided up into administrative county district called "härad" and in the area of Sweden called "Svealand" that kind of units were called hundare and in the coastal region skeppslag.
		Most of the provinces corresponded with the "lagsaga", which was the area for the law of the province, with the exception of e.g.
		The later province "Dalarna" was a county district ("hundare") and the chief judge was the "lagman" of Närke.
	web.telia.com /~u87716965/harad/harad2_eng.htm (824 words)

	Sweden (08/05)
		Sweden suffered further territorial losses during the Napoleonic wars and was forced to cede Finland to Russia in 1809.
		While some argued that it went against Sweden's historic policy of neutrality (Sweden had not joined the EU during the Cold War because it was incompatible with neutrality), others viewed the move as a natural extension of the economic cooperation that had been going on since 1972 with the EU.
		Sweden has devoted particular attention to issues of disarmament, arms control, and nuclear nonproliferation and has contributed importantly to UN and other international peacekeeping efforts, including the NATO-led peacekeeping forces in the Balkans.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2880.htm (3648 words)

	Regional flags (Sweden)
		This is the old subdivision of Sweden, dating back to the Middle Ages, when they actually (with a modern term) could be seen as federal states in a united kingdom which was Sweden.
		The provinces has since at least the 17th Century no political meaning what so ever, but they are still the main way to describe from where in Sweden you are (there are only a few exceptions to this rule).
		The counties are the subdivision of the state, which have led to that the county arms can be crowned with a royal crown when they represent the county board (länsstyrelsen), the highest body of the county, which is led by a landshövding ("land chief" or governor) appointed by the government.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/se-reg.html (771 words)

	Subnational entity - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Subnational entity is a generic term for an administrative region within a country — on an arbitrary level below that of the sovereign state — typically with a local government encompassing multiple municipalities, counties, or provinces with a certain degree of autonomy in a varying number of matters.
		Län - Counties of Sweden, Provinces of Finland
		Province - Provinces of Thailand, Provinces of the Philippines, Political divisions of China, Provinces of Spain, Provinces of Canada
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /subnational_entity.htm (237 words)

	SWEDEN.SE - History of Sweden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The various provinces of Sweden, which had previously been independent entities, were absorbed around 1000 into a single unit whose center of gravity lay partly in Västergötland and Östergötland and partly in the provinces around Lake Mälaren, especially Uppland.
		It was first during the latter part of the thirteenth century that the crown gained a greater measure of influence and was able, with the introduction of royal castles and provincial administration, to assert the authority of the central government and to impose laws and ordinances valid for the whole kingdom.
		However, Sweden was, except for some small iron works and the copper mine at Falun, a purely agrarian country based on a natural economy, and lacked the resources to maintain its position as a great power in the long run.
	www.sweden.se /templates/FactSheet____3116.asp (3721 words)

	Gastrikland -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Bounded on the south by the province of Uppland, on the north by that of Hälsingland, and on the west by that of Dalarna, it is transitional in character between…
		Bounded on the south by the province of Uppland, on the north by that of Hälsingland, and on the west by that of Dalarna, it is...
		It is bounded by the Gulf of Bothnia and the Baltic Sea on the east and by the traditional landskaper (provinces) of Södermanland, Västmanland, and Gästrikland on the south, west, and north, respectively.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9036169 (389 words)

	Learn more about Subnational entity in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Subnational entity is a generic name for an administrative region within a country (normally with a local government encompassing multiple municipalities, counties or provinces with a certain degree of autonomy in a varying number of matters.
		Län -- Counties of Sweden, Provinces of Finland
		Province -- Provinces of Thailand, Provinces of the Philippines
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /s/su/subnational_entity.html (203 words)

	Gotland (Sweden) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The island is historically one of Sweden's 24 provinces.
		The intermediate level of administration in Sweden is the county (län), with the commune (municipality) as the basic level of administration.
		In the case of Gotland the territory of the old province, the modern county and the modern commune coincides.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/se_gotla.html (561 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Counties of Sweden
		Despite this the county reform survived in Finland until a reform in 1997 and still survives in Sweden, 370 years hence.
		Over time the number of subdivisions in Finland increased to twelve, until a reorganization in 1997reduced their number to six provinces, while keeping the administrative model intact.
		The European Union is divided into a Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS), where the counties in Sweden correspond the third level of division.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Counties_of_Sweden (402 words)

	A Brief History of Sweden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The inhabitants were generally hunters and fishers, until about 550-800 CE when Sweden's inhabitants settled and became a primarily agricultural society.
		Sweden continued expanding and had taken over Finland during the 12th and 13th centuries.
		For the next 140 years, or so, Sweden battled like crazy, taking over all kinds of places in the Baltic, and by the end was considered a major power in northern Europe.
	www.photo.net /sweden/history (322 words)

	The Swedish Empire in the Baltic Nations
		Sweden was soon able to commit more to the war effort, at a time when Ivan the Terrible's interest in the Baltic was waning, and Sweden controlled northern Estonia and Narva by 1595.
		Sweden never established a system of feudalism itself, and therefore had a negative view of it in the Baltic territories.
		Initially, the Baltic provinces needed to recover from the ravages that war consistently brings with it: famine, plague and poverty being the highlights.
	depts.washington.edu /baltic/papers/swedish.html (2552 words)

	Chronology of Sweden (1640-1699)
		Norway cedes to Sweden the northern provinces of Jämtland and Härjedalen.
		The Nuremberg agreement is signed between Sweden and Imperialists for the phased withdrawal of all troops in areas of Germany not ceded to France, Sweden, or the Emperor.
		New Sweden is absorbed by the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam.
	www.islandnet.com /~kpolsson/swedhis/swed1640.htm (2541 words)

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