Crossword clues for sweden
sweden
- Where IKEA began
- Stockholm is its capital
- Neighbor of Norway
- Malmo's locale
- Gotland's land
- Author Stieg Larsson's homeland
- Where Stockholm is the capital
- Where Malmö is
- Volvo's home
- Tenor Jussi Björling's birthplace
- Stockholm's nation
- Seven Years' War country
- Riksdag's country
- Nobel home
- Neutral country in World War II
- Nation that's home to the metal bands Opeth and Meshuggah
- Most populous Nordic country
- Malmo's home
- Malmö locale
- Land of the massage
- It joined the European Union in 1995
- IKEA's homeland
- Ikea's birthplace
- Homeland of Saab and Volvo
- Home to ABBA
- Home of Volvos and Saabs
- Home of ABBA, Volvo and smorgasbord
- Home of Mats and Bjorn
- Hockey champion at the 2006 Winter Olympics
- Hammarskjöld's homeland
- First country to legalize changing one's gender identity (1972)
- Country whose capital is Stockholm
- Bjorn Borg's homeland
- Birthplace of Bergman and Garbo
- Bergman's birthplace
- Alfred Nobel's birthplace
- Abba's roots
- 1912 Olympics locale
- "Pippi Longstocking" setting
- Home of the Riksdag
- "I'll Take ___" (Bob Hope film)
- Its flag has a yellow cross on a blue background
- Abba's home country
- It had the earliest parliament on the European continent
- Nobel's birthplace
- Part of the Northland peninsula
- Country almost 1,000 miles long
- Alfred Nobel’s birthplace
- It touches the Gulf of Bothnia
- Where the Riksdag meets
- Volvo's homeland
- Winter Olympics powerhouse
- "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" setting
- Home of Pippi Longstocking
- A Scandinavian kingdom in the eastern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula
- Alfred Nobels birthplace
- Nobel's land
- Strindberg's land
- "I'll Take ___," 1965 film
- Sverige
- Part of the Kalmar Union: 1397
- Jenny Lind's home
- Baltic land
- Country song oddly about drug: moving ecstasy
- Country garden project linked with Cornwall area?
- Stockholm's country
- Norway's neighbor
- European country with a king
- Norway neighbor
- Scandinavian country
- Baltic Sea country
- Where IKEA was founded
- Stockholm's land
- Scandinavian nation
- Nobel's homeland
- Malmo locale
- Home to Ikea
- Garbo's homeland
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, originally in Scottish (Swethin, Swadne, etc.), from Middle Dutch Sweden, probably a dative plural of Swede (earlier in English Sweden was used of the people and until 17c. Swedeland was the English name of the country). In Old English, the country was Sweoland or Sweorice (compare Old Norse sviariki, source of Swedish Sverige). Ultimately named for the original inhabitants (see Swede).
Wikipedia
Sweden is a country in Northern Europe. Sweden may also refer to:
Sweden ( ; ), officially the Kingdom of Sweden ( Swedish: ), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund. At , Sweden is the third-largest country in the European Union by area, with a total population of over 9.8 million. Sweden consequently has a low population density of , with the highest concentration in the southern half of the country. Approximately 85% of the population lives in urban areas.
Germanic peoples have inhabited Sweden since prehistoric times, emerging into history as the Geats/Götar and Swedes/Svear and constituting the sea peoples known as the Norsemen. Southern Sweden is predominantly agricultural, while the north is heavily forested. Sweden is part of the geographical area of Fennoscandia. The climate is in general very mild for its northerly latitude due to significant maritime influence, that in spite of this still retains warm continental summers. Today, Sweden is a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy, with a monarch as head of state. The capital city is Stockholm, which is also the most populous city in the country. Legislative power is vested in the 349-member unicameral Riksdag. Executive power is exercised by the government chaired by the prime minister. Sweden is a unitary state, currently divided into 21 counties and 290 municipalities.
Sweden emerged as an independent and unified country during the Middle Ages. In the 17th century, it expanded its territories to form the Swedish Empire, which became one of the great powers of Europe until the early 18th century. Swedish territories outside the Scandinavian Peninsula were gradually lost during the 18th and 19th centuries, ending with the annexation of present-day Finland by Russia in 1809. The last war in which Sweden was directly involved was in 1814, when Norway was militarily forced into personal union. Since then, Sweden has been at peace, maintaining an official policy of neutrality in foreign affairs. The union with Norway was peacefully dissolved in 1905, leading to Sweden's current borders. Though Sweden was formally neutral through both world wars, Sweden engaged in humanitarian efforts, such as taking in refugees from German-occupied Europe.
After the end of the Cold War, Sweden joined the European Union on 1January 1995, but declined NATO membership, as well as Eurozone membership following a referendum. It is also a member of the United Nations, the Nordic Council, Council of Europe, the World Trade Organization and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Sweden maintains a Nordic social welfare system that provides universal health care and tertiary education for its citizens. It has the world's eighth-highest per capita income and ranks highly in numerous metrics of national performance, including quality of life, health, education, protection of civil liberties, economic competitiveness, equality, prosperity and human development.
Sweden is an album by the Mountain Goats released on Shrimper Records in 1995.
In European elections, Sweden is a constituency of the European Parliament covering the entire nation of Sweden. It is currently represented by twenty MEPs.
Usage examples of "sweden".
And when he was dying, he called the Amadan and put him under a geasa to meet and fight the Beggarman of the King of Sweden.
And when he came there, he saw a great cloud that shot out of the sky, descending on the hill, and when it came down on the hill and melted away, there it left the Beggarman of the King of Sweden standing, and between his legs the Amadan saw the whole world and nothing over his head.
Amadan of the Dough, and I have killed Slat Mor, Slat Man, Slat Beag, the Cailliach of the Rocks and her four badachs, the Black Bull of the Brown Woods, the White Wether of the Hill of the Waterfalls, and the Beggarman of the King of Sweden, and before night I will have killed the Silver Cat of the Seven Glens.
He had always been a State politician, but with the stunning defeat of his party in the Federal election two weeks ago, which had left party members on a merry-go-round, with each man stabbing the back of the man in front of him, it was rumoured that Sweden had set his sights on Canberra and the national playing field.
The build-up of supply of eurobonds that had preceded the recent Sweden issue had almost all been bought, and a number of brokers had been caught short.
Two weeks after the first Soviet forces poured across the frontiers in Finnmark, it was clear that neither Sweden nor Denmark was going to surrender without a fight.
In Sweden this was a broad strip, running from modern Gothenburg towards the northeast between the two great lakes to the Malar district and the Uppsala plain.
Among them was a trio in Goteborg, Sweden, who noticed that many of their hyperhidrosis patients not only stopped sweating after surgery but stopped blushing, too.
Scotland, Denmark, Sweden, and Poland, were yet strangers to the passions and interests of the South.
English-Welsh-Norman-Breton-Angevin host marched toward Edinburgh, ships were landing parties of crusaders along the east coastdescendants of Vikings from the Kingdom of Denmark-Norway, Goths from Sweden, Frisians and Flemings, Burgundians, French, Leonese, Portuguese, Granadans, fighting men representing most of the small states that made up the Holy Roman Empire, a few Switzers, some Italians of various kinds, Castilians, Navarrese, Moors, and even a few scarred, black-skinned noble knights of the Kingdom of Ghana.
Vikings from the Kingdom of Denmark-Norway, Goths from Sweden, Frisians and Flemings, Burgundians, French, Leonese, Portuguese, Granadans, fighting men representing most of the small states that made up the Holy Roman Empire, a few Switzers, some Italians of various kinds, Castilians, Navarrese, Moors, and even a few scarred, black-skinned noble knights of the Kingdom of Ghana.
Russia and Sweden had been compromised, the mutual disgust between the czarina and the king of Prussia had gained such accession from reciprocal insults, ill offices, and inflammatory declarations, that these two powers seemed to be on the eve of a rupture, and each was employed in making extraordinary preparations for war.
Romish, or Romayne herbes, although the same be brought direct from Sweden or Norweigh.
In 1998, though, Gage and his colleagues at Salk, along with a team from Sahlgrenska University Hospital, in Sweden, managed to use an approach that had initially been suggested by Michael Kaplan in 1982.
The frigate had seen few other ships between Harwich and the Skaw, merely a handful of fishing boats and a wallowing Baltic trader with her main deck heavily laden with timber, but now, sailing into the narrowing gut between Denmark and Sweden, the traffic was heavier.