Swedish Pomerania
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Swedish Pomerania was a dominion of Sweden from 1630 to 1815 on what is now the Baltic coast of Germany and Poland. Following the Polish War and the Thirty Years' War, Sweden held extensive control ov
Gustav II Adolf
Johann Joachim Spalding, 1800
portrait of Caspar David Friedrich, c.1810
Philipp Otto Runge
Swedish Empire
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The Swedish Empire, referred to in Sweden as the Great Power Era, was the period in Swedish history spanning much of the 17th and early 18th centuries during which Sweden was a European great power th
Swedish Pomerania
…covered about a quarter of the country, were divided into amts. The peace treaties were negotiated while the Swedish queen Christina was a minor, and the Swedish Empire was governed by members of the high aristocracy. As a consequence, Pomerania was not annexed to Sweden like the French war gains, which would have meant…
Sweden's coat of arms (with erroneous tinctures) on the wall of the Town Hall of Lützen in Germany.
Triumph of King Charles X Gustav over the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1655
Battle of Køge Bay in 1677
King Charles XI