The Swedish Empire or the Age of Greatness (Swedish: stormaktstiden) was the period in Swedish history spanning much of the 17th and early 18th centuries...

power. During this period, known as Stormaktstiden (Swedish: "The Great Power Era"), the Swedish Empire held a territory more than twice the size of its...

Swedish overseas colonies (Swedish: Svenska utomeuropeiska kolonier) consisted of the overseas colonies controlled by Sweden. Sweden possessed overseas...

began, forming the Swedish Empire, which remained one of the great powers of Europe until the early 18th century. During this era Sweden controlled much...

as Sweden was ruled by the young Charles XII, declared war on the Swedish Empire and launched a threefold attack on Swedish Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish Livonia...

Swedish Livonia (Swedish: Svenska Livland) was a dominion of the Swedish Empire from 1629 until 1721. The territory, which constituted the southern part...

Swedish Ingria (Swedish: Svenska Ingermanland, ‘land of Ingrians’) was a dominion of the Swedish Empire from 1583 to 1595 and then again from 1617 to...

The Swedish Empire expanded enormously into the modern Estonia and Latvia, northern Germany, and several regions that to this day are part of Sweden. Before...

attack on the Swedish protectorate of Holstein-Gottorp and provinces of Livonia and Ingria, aiming to draw advantage as the Swedish Empire was unaligned...

The Swedish invasion of the Holy Roman Empire or the Swedish Intervention in the Thirty Years' War is a historically accepted division of the Thirty Years'...

Russian Empire coincided with the decline of its rivals: the Swedish Empire, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Qajar Iran, the Ottoman Empire, and Qing...

Netherlands (1556–1713) Swedish Empire (1638–1663, 1733, 1784–1878) Swedish colonies in the Americas New Sweden (1638–1655) Swedish colony of Saint Barthélemy...

OCLC 1113941754. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 July 2020. In 1700, the Swedish Empire covered a land area of 990,000 square kilometers and had 2,500,000 inhabitants...

Swedish Lithuania, officially known as the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (Swedish: Storfurstendömet Litauen, Latin: Magnus Ducatus Lituaniæ), was a dominium...

This is a list of wars and war-like conflicts involving Sweden.   Swedish victory   Swedish defeat   Another result * *e.g. result unknown or indecisive/inconclusive...

Swedes (Swedish: svenskar), or Swedish people, are an ethnic group native to Sweden, who share a common ancestry, culture, history and language. They...

New Sweden (Swedish: Nya Sverige) was a colony of the Swedish Empire along the lower reaches of the Delaware River between 1638 and 1655 in present-day...

The Swedish Armed Forces (Swedish: Försvarsmakten , literally Defence Force) is the armed forces of the Kingdom of Sweden. It consists of four separate...

Despite spectacular early Swedish victories, the ultimate result of the war was the end of the Swedish Empire. Russia supplanted Sweden as the dominant Power...

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...

Dominions of Sweden or Svenska besittningar ("Swedish possessions") were territories that historically came under control of the Swedish Crown, but never...

Kėdainių unija, Swedish: Kėdainiai förbund) was an agreement between magnates of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the king of the Swedish Empire, Charles X...

by the ongoing Great Northern War fought between the Swedish Empire against the Russian Empire, Denmark-Norway, Saxony and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth...

death, in a period of Swedish history known as the Swedish Empire (1611–1721). He was the only son of King Charles X Gustav of Sweden and Hedwig Eleonora...

Nyköping County, or Nyköpings län, was a county of the Swedish Empire from 1634 to 1683. It was one of three counties in the province of Södermanland,...

Swedish immigration, and laid the foundations of a population of Swedish-Argentines. Swedish overseas colonies Possessions of Sweden Swedish Empire Colonial...

Peter I defeated the Swedish army under the command of Carl Gustaf Rehnskiöld. The battle put an end to the status of the Swedish Empire as a European great...

to the 18th century, primarily between the territorial rivals of the Swedish Empire, Tsardom of Russia, Poland–Lithuania, and Denmark–Norway. The Great...

The Swedish nobility (Swedish: Adeln or Ridderskapet och Adeln, Knighthood and Nobility) has historically been a legally and/or socially privileged class...

among the Swedish-controlled German states was damaged, and several of the provinces refused further Swedish military support, leaving Sweden with only...