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- Swedish literature refers to literature written in the Swedish language or by writers from Sweden. For example, both Birgitta of Sweden (fourteenth ...37 KB (5,478 words) - 16:22, 12 January 2024
- projects. This is due to the fact that the Swedish colonies were fewer and ... in Africa and in the Americas, the Swedish East India Company was established ...18 KB (2,669 words) - 00:38, 27 February 2023
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- }|IPA=IPA: |lang=Swedish: |langfi=Finland Swedish: |fi=Finland Swedish pronunciation: |pron=pronounced |*=Swedish pron.: |=|Swedish pronunciation ...409 bytes (45 words) - 22:22, 25 July 2023
- Selma Lagerlöf was an early twentieth century Swedish writer and the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. She is best known for ...641 bytes (107 words) - 23:04, 25 July 2023
- November 20, 1858 – March 16, 1940) was a Swedish author. She published her first novel, Gösta Berling's Saga, at the age of 33. She was the first ...500 bytes (81 words) - 21:10, 27 July 2023
- February 19, 1859 – October 2, 1927) was a Swedish chemist and one of the founders of the science of physical chemistry. He determined that reactions ...927 bytes (135 words) - 20:20, 23 April 2022
- Moldavia Polish-Ottoman War (1620–1621) Polish-Swedish Wars War against SigismundBattle of Stångebro Polish–Swedish War (1600–1629)Polish-Swedish ...5 KB (511 words) - 14:56, 7 October 2023
- November 14, 1907 – January 28, 2002) was a Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays. She is best known for several children's book series, featuring ...890 bytes (124 words) - 23:35, 30 October 2023
- (wife, woman), Norwegian viv (wife, woman, girl), Swedish viv (woman), Faroese vív (wife, woman), Icelandic víf (woman). ==Noun== ...1 KB (180 words) - 19:40, 30 September 2023
- (food), Dutch voedsel (food), Danish føde (food), Swedish föda (food), Icelandic fæða, fæði (food), Gothic 𐍆𐍉𐌳𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 or fōdeins ...2 KB (198 words) - 23:43, 25 June 2023
- Acker (field, acre), Norwegian åker (field) and Swedish åker (field), Icelandic akur (field), Latin ager (land, field, acre, countryside), Ancient ...1 KB (186 words) - 20:12, 5 March 2024
- Längte, Längt (length), Danish længde (length), Swedish längd (length), Icelandic lengd (length). ==Noun== length (countable and uncountable ...2 KB (215 words) - 20:46, 5 March 2024
- * Swedish |group4 = T–Z |list4 = * Tagalog * Tamil * Taos * Turkish * Ubykh * Ukrainian * Upper Sorbian * Uyghur * Vietnamese * Welsh ...5 KB (471 words) - 00:38, 18 February 2023
- Schwert (sword), Danish sværd, Norwegian sverd, Swedish svärd (sword), Icelandic sverð (sword), Old East Slavic свьрдьлъ or svĭrdĭlŭ (drill). ...2 KB (202 words) - 00:16, 1 February 2024
- , German Sang (“singing, song”), Swedish sång (“song”), Norwegian Bokmål sang (“song”), Norwegian Nynorsk song (“song”), Icelandic ...2 KB (212 words) - 15:44, 1 September 2023
- of arms), Danish våben (weapon, coat of arms), Swedish vapen (weapon, coat of arms), Norwegian Bokmål våpen (weapon), Icelandic vopn (weapon). ...2 KB (222 words) - 19:28, 31 March 2024
- , Danish klædning (clothing, dress, attire), Swedish klädning (dress). Doublet of the dialectal English term cleading, from Middle English clething. ...2 KB (223 words) - 19:17, 31 March 2024
- German Sänger (“singer”), Danish sanger, Swedish sångare, Icelandic söngvari. ===Noun=== singer (plural singers) # person who sings, is ...2 KB (188 words) - 15:37, 1 September 2023
- , German Leder (leather), Danish læder (leather), Swedish läder (leather), Icelandic leður (leather). ==Noun== leather (countable and uncountable ...2 KB (236 words) - 22:39, 30 April 2024
- Cognate with Dutch scheppen, German schaffen, Swedish skapa (“create, make”), Norwegian Bokmål skape (“create”). Doublet of -ship. ...2 KB (257 words) - 23:31, 31 August 2023
- projects. This is due to the fact that the Swedish colonies were fewer and ... in Africa and in the Americas, the Swedish East India Company was established ...18 KB (2,669 words) - 00:38, 27 February 2023
- grün, Danish and Norwegian Nynorsk grøn, Swedish grön, Norwegian Bokmål ... German Low German grönen, German grünen, Swedish gröna, Icelandic gróna. ...5 KB (709 words) - 20:08, 30 September 2023
- Raoul Gustav Wallenberg (born August 4, 1912, exact date of death is disputed) was a Swedish diplomat and a member of the influential Wallenberg ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 00:37, 8 December 2022
- winter (winter), German Winter (winter), Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian vinter (winter), Icelandic vetur (winter). ==Noun== winter (countable ...2 KB (303 words) - 20:13, 30 September 2023
- peril), German Gefahr (danger, risk, hazard), Swedish fara (danger, risk, peril), Latin perīculum (danger, risk, trial), Albanian frikë (fear, danger ...2 KB (321 words) - 00:07, 1 February 2024
- Old High German maz (food), Icelandic matur, Swedish mat, Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍄𐍃 or mats. A -ja- derivation from the same base is found in Middle ...2 KB (318 words) - 20:09, 31 July 2023
- an impossible object, first created by the Swedish artist Oscar Reutersvärd ... The Penrose triangle was first created by Swedish artist Oscar Reutersvärd ...8 KB (1,193 words) - 23:03, 17 March 2024
- Alfred Bernhard Nobel (October 21, 1833 - December 10, 1896) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer, and the inventor ...8 KB (1,208 words) - 18:04, 20 July 2023
- Jöns Jakob Berzelius (August 20, 1779 – August 7, 1848) was a Swedish chemist. Adversity in childhood fostered within Berzelius an independent ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 21:46, 4 October 2022
- or himins (heaven, sky), Old Swedish himin, Old Danish himæn and probably also (in another variant form) Old Saxon himil, Old Dutch himil (modern ...3 KB (405 words) - 23:10, 29 August 2023
- Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld (July 29, 1905 – September 18, 1961) was a Swedish diplomat and the second secretary-seneral of the United ...15 KB (2,373 words) - 07:44, 12 January 2024
- High German wite (wood), Danish ved (wood), Swedish ved (firewood), Icelandic viður (wood). Further cognates include Irish fiodh (a wood, tree), ...3 KB (391 words) - 16:29, 31 August 2023
- the Commonwealth and Sweden (Polish-Swedish union), and succeeded for ... After he had been deposed in 1595 from the Swedish throne by his uncle ...20 KB (2,908 words) - 15:22, 7 October 2022
- Low German Weder, German Wetter, Danish vejr, Swedish väder, Norwegian Bokmål vær, Norwegian Nynorsk vêr, Icelandic veður; also more distantly ...3 KB (421 words) - 22:57, 29 December 2023
- with Selma Lagerlöf, a famous Swedish author at the time, which ... own death, Lagerlöf intervened with the Swedish royal family to secure their ...11 KB (1,767 words) - 16:12, 11 November 2022
- from the special distinction passed by the Swedish Parliament in 1634) was ... when he was 31, beginning the Polish-Swedish War (1625–1629). He intervened ...20 KB (3,242 words) - 02:41, 27 July 2023
- , Danish and Norwegian Bokmål sommer (summer), Swedish sommar (summer), Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic sumar (summer), Welsh haf (summer), Armenian ...4 KB (481 words) - 21:39, 29 September 2023
- Svante August Arrhenius (February 19, 1859 – October 2, 1927) was a Swedish chemist and one of the founders of the science of physical chemistry ...15 KB (2,260 words) - 00:32, 27 February 2023
- ; née Ericsson; November 14, 1907 – January 28, 2002) was a Swedish ... (Centre Party), who became a member of the Swedish parliament. ...33 KB (4,278 words) - 23:35, 30 October 2023
- Swedish literature refers to literature written in the Swedish language or by writers from Sweden. For example, both Birgitta of Sweden (fourteenth ...37 KB (5,478 words) - 16:22, 12 January 2024
- Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (/ˈlɑːɡərlɜːf, -lɜːv/, US also /-lʌv, -ləv/, Swedish: [ˈsɛ̂lːma ˈlɑ̂ːɡɛˌɭøːv]; November ...31 KB (4,475 words) - 21:12, 27 July 2023
- but against her brother's will, the Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus. ... Sigismund was well inclined towards the Swedish King, but he had become ...22 KB (3,602 words) - 04:10, 6 November 2022
- Sweden, in response to a request from the Swedish king Björn at Hauge for ... Ansgar also devoted his energy to the Swedish mission, spending two ...11 KB (1,722 words) - 05:16, 31 July 2023
- against two different imperial models, the Swedish U.S. Library of ... has shifted from being a province in the Swedish Empire to an autonomous ...27 KB (3,890 words) - 02:32, 21 April 2023
- European words: Icelandic fjörður, Swedish fjärd (for Baltic waterbodies ... for bays, bights and narrow inlets on the Swedish Baltic Sea coast, and in ...16 KB (2,484 words) - 17:33, 28 March 2024
- Johan August Strindberg (January 22, 1849 – May 14, 1912) was a ... * Swedish People at Work and Play, social history, 1881-1882 ...13 KB (1,951 words) - 18:29, 21 August 2023
- Älgtest). In an advertising campaign, the Swedish car manufacturers Volvo ... signs may be bought. In the mid 1990s, the Swedish postal service issued a ...18 KB (2,884 words) - 13:14, 10 March 2023
- leader, to defend their northwest lands from Swedish and German invaders. After the Swedish army had landed at the confluence of the rivers Izhora and ...15 KB (2,202 words) - 14:33, 18 July 2023
- aeroplanaktiebolaget" (translates to Swedish Aeroplane Limited), thus ... Aeroplan Aktie(B)olaget" (The Swedish Aeroplane Company), and ...20 KB (2,871 words) - 20:36, 17 April 2023
- time, opportunity), Danish time (hour, lesson), Swedish timme (hour), Norwegian time (time, hour), Faroese tími (hour, lesson, time), Icelandic tími ...5 KB (711 words) - 22:41, 31 July 2023
- [[Image:Swedish CV9040.JPG|thumb|right|Swedish Combat Vehicle 90, a modern IFV.]] Modern IFVs are well-armed infantry carriers that allow the ...10 KB (1,555 words) - 03:51, 15 August 2023
- The concept of allotropy was originally devised by the Swedish scientist Baron Jons Jakob Berzelius (1779-1848). The term allotropy is derived ...5 KB (685 words) - 08:09, 23 July 2023
- Ingmar Bergman (pronounced ˈbɛrjman in Swedish, but usually ˈbɝgmən ... personal "repertory company" of Swedish actors whom he repeatedly ...15 KB (2,262 words) - 19:23, 5 March 2024
- Ingrid Bergman (August 29 1915 – August 29 1982) was a three-time Academy Award-winning Swedish actress. In addition, she won two Emmy Awards ...16 KB (2,451 words) - 20:21, 19 November 2022
- a stronghold for Polish forces during the Swedish invasions of 1655 and 1705 ... pockets of Polish resistance against the Swedish armies during The Deluge ...13 KB (1,981 words) - 07:32, 12 January 2024
- Trying out a new edit? Use the template's sandbox! {| class="infobox vcard" style="font-size: 85%; text-align: left; width: ...11 KB (1,182 words) - 17:38, 4 August 2022
- to separate cream from milk. In 1879, Swedish engineer Gustaf de Laval demonstrated the first continuous centrifugal separator, making its commercial ...11 KB (1,529 words) - 23:56, 3 December 2023
- During the Middle Ages, Denmark, Norway and Sweden (including the ... on nuclear power and fossil fuels, the Swedish government has launched ...40 KB (5,890 words) - 20:41, 17 March 2024
- a false etymology. The animal's name in old Swedish, Fjellfräs, meaning "fell (mountain) cat," worked its way into German as Vielfraß ...15 KB (2,106 words) - 14:50, 17 April 2023
- The prizes were instituted by the final will of Alfred Nobel, a Swedish ... The prizes for physics and chemistry shall be awarded by the Swedish ...34 KB (5,294 words) - 02:33, 16 November 2022
- who behaves violently." In old Swedish law, trolleri was a particular ... Eight Windows. 2002. The distinguished Swedish-speaking Finnish paleontologist ...13 KB (2,076 words) - 17:46, 2 May 2023
- before the beginning of Lent). In the Swedish calendar observance takes place on the first Saturday of November. Again, many religious traditions ...6 KB (918 words) - 13:36, 17 May 2021
- Greta Garbo (September 18, 1905 – April 15, 1990), born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, was a Swedish-born actress who was prominent during Hollywood ...20 KB (3,159 words) - 16:14, 18 July 2022
- Celsius (or centigrade) is a temperature scale named after the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701–1744), who first proposed such a system ...23 KB (3,406 words) - 23:47, 3 December 2023
- opera. It was translated into English, French, Swedish, Danish, Dutch, Bohemian, Hungarian, and Russian. The story is based around Tsar Peter I ...5 KB (752 words) - 08:29, 7 December 2021
- found in a quarry near Ytterby, a small Swedish village near Vaxholm. Yttrium ... (YCl3) with potassium. In 1843, the Swedish chemist Carl Mosander was ...12 KB (1,634 words) - 21:34, 4 June 2023
- ===The Swedish National Bank=== The Swedish National Bank, Bank of Sweden, or Sveriges Riksbank, is ...30 KB (4,733 words) - 23:55, 3 December 2023
- (blue), German blau (blue), Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish blå (blue), Icelandic blár (blue), Latin flāvus (yellow), Middle Irish blá (yellow). ...6 KB (929 words) - 19:57, 30 September 2023
- cognate to Danish Isbjerg, Swedish Isberg, Low Saxon Iesbarg, and German Eisberg. An iceberg differs from sea ice in that an iceberg is made of ...12 KB (1,760 words) - 17:16, 10 February 2024
- of Jahn's developments, the Swedish teacher Pehr Henrik Ling started to see the benefits of gymnastics. In 1813 he was successful in developing ...12 KB (1,802 words) - 05:07, 24 November 2022
- the rank of Count (in Finnish Kreivi, in Swedish Greve). Mannerheim's ... title of Baron (in Finnish Vapaaherra, in Swedish Friherre; the eldest son ...26 KB (4,032 words) - 19:17, 26 November 2023
- 1688 – March 29, 1772) was a Swedish scientist, philosopher, Christian ... One of the most prominent Swedish authors of Swedenborg's day ...37 KB (5,627 words) - 17:59, 13 February 2024
- brúgv in Faroese or bro in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish). ==History== The first bridges were spans made of wooden logs or planks and eventually ...14 KB (2,066 words) - 20:15, 11 March 2024
- . From Children of the Forest (1910) by Swedish author and illustrator Elsa ... alv in Norwegian, and alv or älva in Swedish (the first form being masculine ...21 KB (3,288 words) - 10:19, 21 January 2023
- Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (January 2, 1895 – September 17, 1948), was a Swedish diplomat. After representing Sweden at several international ...32 KB (4,734 words) - 22:38, 5 May 2020
- she tried unsuccessfully to re-ascend the Swedish throne. She also allowed ... have been some popular enthusiasm or a Swedish version, for a Queen with ...33 KB (5,367 words) - 21:12, 10 December 2023
- Sweden and was seen as an ancestor of the Swedish royal house. ... unique for his relationship with the Swedish royal family. This euhemeristic ...27 KB (4,366 words) - 02:39, 1 December 2023
- A large crowd, mostly students in typical Swedish white student caps, participating ... German and Dutch, Valborgsmässoafton in Swedish) is a traditional religious ...20 KB (3,175 words) - 09:20, 10 March 2023
- November 16, 1887, the second of six children to Swedish emigrant parents on a rural farm four miles west of Humboldt, Kansas. Before he reached his fourteenth ...12 KB (1,766 words) - 22:27, 3 May 2023
- rather than deflagrates. It was invented by Swedish chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel in 1866, in Krümmel (Hamburg, Germany), and patented in 1867. ...6 KB (937 words) - 01:17, 16 January 2023
- Chlorine was first characterized by the Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele in 1774. Based on the phlogiston theory that was widely accepted ...7 KB (964 words) - 18:12, 31 October 2023
- many languages, including German, Norwegian, Swedish, French, Finnish, and Spanish. After his death, the incomplete work of history, Athens: Its ...12 KB (1,914 words) - 18:21, 12 February 2024
- nok in Danish and finally, Neck in Swedish.Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford Press, 1971) ISBN 019861117X The differences in the terms are subtle ...14 KB (2,167 words) - 09:56, 11 March 2023
- the help of his brother Esaias, a diplomat in the Swedish service, became a tutor in the family of Petrus Julius Coyet, one of the resident ministers ...14 KB (2,091 words) - 03:05, 23 December 2022
- The renewal of Norrmalm was the largest Swedish urban development ... Larsson|year=1960|location=Stockholm|language=Swedish *title=CITY Byggnadsinventering ...41 KB (6,131 words) - 00:41, 13 January 2024
- Berzelius was a Swedish chemist. In 1828 he compiled a table of relative ... Of Swedish ancestry, Seaborg was born in Ishpeming, Michigan. He received ...15 KB (2,217 words) - 15:59, 25 January 2023
- Finland was previously part of the Swedish kingdom and later an autonomous ... (Rundata:U 582 †) and one in Gotland, a Swedish island in the Baltic Sea ...43 KB (6,190 words) - 19:49, 26 March 2024
- was once a horse possessed by the devil, and Swedish folklore holds that the devil uses dragonflies to weigh people's souls (Mitchell and Lasswell ...17 KB (2,444 words) - 17:31, 30 January 2024
- the Czech lands declined by a third. The Swedish armies alone destroyed 2 ... *the Swedish intervention, and *the French intervention. ...41 KB (6,305 words) - 18:37, 30 April 2023
- in 1942; a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy in 1948, of the ... Leon Walras, the Austrian school, and the Swedish school based on the work ...15 KB (2,155 words) - 07:42, 3 August 2022
- whirling current), Danish ræs, Norwegian and Swedish ras, Norwegian rås. ==Noun== race (countable and uncountable, plural races) ...7 KB (1,089 words) - 16:36, 31 August 2023
- internationally that in 1634, the Swedish chancellor, Count A. G. ... point he made a misstep which required the Swedish chancellor to come to Paris ...25 KB (3,772 words) - 12:17, 4 February 2023
- in the Time of Trouble, when the city fell to Swedish troops. According to some accounts, the city voluntarily submitted to Swedish rule. Novgorod ...19 KB (2,901 words) - 14:59, 3 May 2023
- The work of Dr. Erik Stensio, at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, from the late 1920s, established the details of placoderm ...8 KB (1,138 words) - 06:22, 24 November 2022
- can also have International engines. The Swedish truckmaker Scania claims ... The Motor Vehicle Industry in Sweden] The Swedish Institute. Retrieved May ...14 KB (2,129 words) - 18:25, 2 May 2023
- endured more than 700 years of German, Swedish, and Russian rule. A small ... === The Polish-Swedish War - 1600-1629 === Attempts to reinstitute ...31 KB (4,622 words) - 21:06, 16 April 2023
- Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish | registration = Optional (required for contributing) | owner = IMSLP community ...18 KB (2,536 words) - 16:33, 8 March 2023
- Of Swedish ancestry, Seaborg was born in Ishpeming, Michigan, the ... Society in 1976. In 1976, when the Swedish king visited the United ...29 KB (4,299 words) - 07:54, 24 January 2023
- * Gurkmeja in Swedish * 欝金 (ukon) in Japanese * ขมิ้น (kamin) in Thai * Geelwortel (literal: Yellow Root) or Kurkuma in Dutch. ...16 KB (2,344 words) - 19:02, 6 November 2022
- dispute between Sweden and Finland over the Swedish-speaking Åland Islands. The Islands remained under the Finnish control, but were disarmed and granted ...16 KB (2,449 words) - 01:35, 16 November 2022
- to meet idiots, go to Norway." In 1996, the Swedish director Jan Troell based the movie Hamsun on Hansen's book. In Hamsun, famous Swedish ...14 KB (2,197 words) - 03:57, 4 March 2023
- similar raids, sacking and burning the Swedish town of Sigtuna in 1187. ... During the Livonian War in 1561, northern Estonia submitted to Swedish ...40 KB (5,692 words) - 04:22, 22 March 2024
