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Swedish overseas colonies. Sweden established colonies in the Americas in the mid-17th century, including the colony of New Sweden (1638–1655) on the Delaware River in what is now Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland, as well as two possessions in the Caribbean during the 18th and 19th centuries.
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The Swedes and the Swedish Settlements in North America 2 vols. (Lund, 1943) Nelson, Robert J. If We Could Only Come to America... A Story of Swedish Immigrants in the Midwest. (Sunflower U. Press, 2004) Norman, Hans, and Harald Runblom. Transatlantic Connections: Nordic Migration to the New World After 1800 (1988). Olson, Anita Ruth.
The name for Sweden is generally agreed to derive from the Proto-Indo-European root *s(w)e, meaning "one's own", referring to one's own tribe from the tribal period. [15] [16] [17] The native Swedish name, Sverige (a compound of the words Svea and rike, first recorded in the cognate Swēorice in Beowulf), [18] translates as "realm of the Swedes", which excluded the Geats in Götaland.
A Brief History of New Sweden in America Archived December 11, 2005, at the Wayback Machine, at The Swedish Colonial Society; The New Sweden Centre – museum, tours and reenactors; New Sweden at the FamilySearch Research Wiki; Johnson's detailed map of New Sweden; 350th Anniversary of the Landing of the Swedes and Finns in Delaware
Google said Monday it will enforce changes to the U.S. map, including changing the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America,” following an executive order President Donald Trump passed his ...
Maps are also available as part of the Wikimedia Atlas of the World project in the Atlas of Central America. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
English: Location map of the Americas with political borders. Projection: Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection. Map extent (LAEA) Xmin,Ymin to Xmax, Ymax: -7464417, -8174417 to 7264417, 8464417