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The history of Scandinavia is the history of the geographical region of Scandinavia and its peoples. The region is located in Northern Europe , and consists of Denmark , Norway and Sweden . Finland and Iceland are at times, especially in English-speaking contexts, considered part of Scandinavia.
The name Scandia, later used as a synonym for Scandinavia, also appears in Pliny's Naturalis Historia (Natural History), but is used for a group of Northern European islands which he locates north of Britannia. Scandia thus does not appear to be denoting the island Scadinavia in
Early Greek and Roman geographers used the name Scandia for various uncharted islands in Northern Europe. [3] The name originated in Greek sources and then into Latin [citation needed], which used it for a long time for different islands in the Mediterranean region. [4] In the Iliad the name denotes an ancient city in Kythira, Greece. [5]
Scandia (journal) Scandinavian Journal of History; List of Scandinavian saints; Second Northern War and Norway; Skilling (currency) Socken; Stone circle (Iron Age) Stone ship; Stortorget, Malmö; Siege of Fredrikstad; Swedish–Norwegian War; Swedish–Norwegian War (1099–1101)
The Scandinavian Peninsula [1] is located in Northern Europe, and roughly comprises the mainlands of Sweden, Norway and the northwestern area of Finland.. The name of the peninsula is derived from the term Scandinavia, the cultural region of Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
The Nordic countries (also known as the Nordics or Norden; lit. ' the North ') [2] are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic.It includes the sovereign states of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway [a] and Sweden; the autonomous territories of the Faroe Islands and Greenland; and the autonomous region of Åland.
Ale's Stones, a stone ship (burial monument) from c. 500 AD on the coast at Kåseberga, around ten kilometres south east of Ystad in southern Scania. It was previously thought that society in Scania, like in the rest of Scandinavia, was made up of farmers mostly Fen farmers and cattle farmers, thralls, the farmer being free and equal, and having their say at the Things in the affairs of society.
The Danish cession document, 1658.. The Swedification of Scania refers to the process in which the former Danish province of Scania (Danish/Swedish: Skåne) was culturally and linguistically integrated and made into a part of the Swedish Empire, in the context of 17th century Swedish expansion within Scandinavia.