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    The Kalmar War (1611–1613) was fought between Denmark–Norway and Sweden. Though Denmark-Norway soon gained the upper hand, it was unable to defeat Sweden...
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    Kalmar (/ˈkælmɑːr/, US also /ˈkɑːlmɑːr/, Swedish: [ˈkǎlmar] ) is a city in the southeast of Sweden, situated by the Baltic Sea. It had 41,388 inhabitants...
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    Sweden in the 1611–1613 Kalmar War but failed to accomplish his main objective of forcing it to return to the Kalmar Union. The war led to no territorial...
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    The Dano-Hanseatic War, also known as the Kalmar War with the Hanseatic League, or the Danish-Hanseatic War of 1426-1435, was an armed trade conflict between...
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    treasury.[citation needed] Not long after the Kalmar war, Denmark–Norway became involved in another greater war, in which they fought together with the mainly...
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  • the Northern Seven Years' War (1563–70) and the Kalmar War (1611–13). Denmark was heavily involved in the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) on the side of...
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    Kalmar Castle (Swedish: Kalmar slott) is a castle in the city Kalmar in the province of Småland in Sweden. During the twelfth century a round defensive...
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    The Kalmar Union was a personal union in Scandinavia, agreed at Kalmar in Sweden as designed by Queen Margaret of Denmark. From 1397 to 1523, it joined...
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  • The siege of Kalmar occurred in 1611 during the Kalmar War and constituted the major part of an intensive conflict between Denmark–Norway and Sweden for...
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  • which laid an important foundation to Sweden's Age of Greatness. The Kalmar War was a war between Sweden and Denmark 1611 to 1613. Sweden sought an alternative...
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    Christian IV of Denmark (category People of the Kalmar War)
    Rigsrådet, Christian initiated a war with Sweden for the supremacy of the Baltic Sea. It was later known as the Kalmar War because its chief operation was...
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    Kalmar Nyckel (Swedish for 'Key of Kalmar') was a Swedish ship built by the Dutch famed for carrying Swedish settlers to North America in 1638, to establish...
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  • This is a list of wars between Denmark and Sweden. Broadly construed, it may refer to one of multiple wars which took place between the Kingdom of Sweden...
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    insurgent nobleman Gustav Vasa in the Swedish War of Liberation against the Danish-dominated Union of Kalmar, thus making the present-day Life Guards one...
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    as the Kalmar War. Sweden began consolidating its empire. Several other wars followed soon after including the Northern Wars and the Scanian War. Denmark...
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    to restore the Kalmar Union. Unfavourable conditions for Sweden led to a series of conflicts that only ended with the Great Northern War in 1720. Sweden...
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    George, Duke of Brunswick (category People of the Kalmar War)
    George, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (17 February 1582, in Celle – 12 April 1641, in Hildesheim), ruled as Prince of Calenberg from 1635. He was a member...
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    Gustavus Adolphus (category People of the Kalmar War)
    King Sigismund III, his nephew, as King of Sweden. The war against Denmark–Norway (Kalmar War), during which Gustavus fought in minor military actions...
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  • almost continual war and preparation for war, including the Kalmar War (1611–1613), the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), the Northern War (1655–1658), the...
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  • 1523 by the acclamation of Gustav Vasa as king which finally ended the Kalmar Union with Denmark, although the current Swedish constitution dates to 1974...
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    Charles IX of Sweden (category People of the Kalmar War)
    under a decade after his death, these would re-ignite in the Thirty Years' War of 1618–1648. These conflicts had already caused the dynastic squabble rooted...
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    Jesper Mattson Cruus af Edeby (category People of the Kalmar War)
    1615, Lord High Treasurer in 1615, and Governor of Riga in 1621. In the Kalmar War (1611–1613) he led the Swedish troops to victory against the Danish forces...
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    Sinclair (c. 1580–1612) was a Scottish mercenary who fought and died in the Kalmar War. He is remembered in popular song in Norway and the Faroe Islands, through...
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    Battle of Vittsjö (category Kalmar War)
    retaliation for the Danish ravaging of Småland and Västergötland during the Kalmar War. He and his army, which consisted of about 3,000 men, led by Nils Stiernsköld [sv]...
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    Kalmar Cathedral (Swedish: Kalmar domkyrka) is in the city of Kalmar in Småland in southeast Sweden. Located in Stortorget Square, construction began in...
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    Prillar-Guri (category Kalmar War)
    in August 1612. Sweden and Denmark-Norway were actively engaged in the Kalmar War. Nearly three hundred conscripts from the Gudbrand Valley had been massacred...
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    form the Kalmar Union, which persisted until the latter's secession in 1523. The remaining Kingdom of Denmark–Norway endured a series of wars in the 17th...
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  • without a clear result. List of wars involving Denmark List of wars involving Finland List of wars involving Iceland List of wars involving Sweden The Dutch...
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    This is a list of wars that began between 1500 and 1799. Other wars can be found in the historical lists of wars and the list of wars extended by diplomatic...
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    László Kalmár (27 March 1905, in Edde – 2 August 1976, in Mátraháza) was a Hungarian mathematician and Professor at the University of Szeged. Kalmár is considered...
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