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Sweden
Sweden is a kingdom in northern Europe on the eastern side of the Scandinavian Peninsula. In the seventeenth century it became the core of the Swedish Empire, a Baltic great power whose armies intervened decisively in the Thirty Years' War and fought repeatedly against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia. Its defeat by Peter the Great's Russia in the Great Northern War ended its imperial era and helped launch the Russian Empire.
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- APA
- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Sweden. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/sweden
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- “Sweden.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/sweden. Accessed .
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- The Epoch Institute. “Sweden.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/sweden.
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- The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Sweden’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/sweden (Accessed: ).
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