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  2. Three Crowns - Wikipedia

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    Three Crowns (Swedish: tre kronor) is the national emblem of Sweden, present in the coat of arms of Sweden, and composed of three yellow or gilded coronets ordered two above and one below, placed on a blue background. Similar designs are found on a number of other coats of arms or flags.

  3. Tre Kronor (castle) - Wikipedia

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    Tre Kronor (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈtreː ˈkrûːnʊr]) or Three Crowns Castle was a castle located in Stockholm, Sweden, on the site where Stockholm Palace is today. It is believed to have been a citadel that Birger Jarl built into a royal castle in the middle of the 13th century.

  4. Coat of arms of Sweden - Wikipedia

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    Royal Crown of Sweden: Shield: Azure, quartered by a cross or with outbent arms, and an inescutcheon containing the dynastic arms of the Royal House. In the first and fourth fields three open crowns Or, placed two above one. In the second and third fields three sinisterbendwise streams argent, a lion crowned with an open crown or armed gules.

  5. Tre kronor - Wikipedia

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    Tre kronor, Swedish "Three crowns", may refer to: Three Crowns, a national emblem of Sweden; Sweden men's national ice hockey team, which has the Swedish national emblem on its jersey; Tre Kronor (castle), a 16th-century royal castle in Stockholm, Sweden; HSwMS Tre Kronor, a Swedish Navy ship; Tre kronor

  6. Monarchy of Sweden - Wikipedia

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    The fortress gradually grew to a castle, known as Tre Kronor: named after the spire on the centre tower with Three Crowns, which have become the Swedish national symbol. [n 17] In the late 16th century, work was done to transform the castle into a Renaissance palace during the reign of John III.

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  8. Swedish nobility - Wikipedia

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    The Swedish House of Nobility in Stockholm, Sweden. Ruins of Alsnö Castle, where the first known ordinance of Swedish nobility was given in 1280 by King Magnus III. The Swedish nobility (Swedish: Adeln or Ridderskapet och Adeln, Knighthood and Nobility) has historically been a legally or socially privileged class in Sweden, and part of the so-called frälse (a derivation from Old Swedish ...

  9. Crown - Wikipedia

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    Crown of King of Persis Ardakhshir II, 1st century BC. Crowns have been discovered in pre-historic times from Haryana, India. [4] The precursor to the crown was the browband called the diadem, which had been worn by the Achaemenid Persian emperors. It was adopted by Constantine I and was worn by all subsequent rulers of the later Roman Empire ...