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These people include the Swedish-speakers in mainland Finland – speaking a Swedish dialect commonly referred to as Finland Swedish (finlandssvenska which is part of the East-Swedish dialect group) and the almost exclusively Swedish-speaking population of Åland speaking in a manner closer to the adjacent dialects in Sweden than to adjacent ...
List of Swedish people: This is a list of lists of notable Swedes. By country or ethnicity. List of Sami people; List of Lebanese people in Sweden;
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.
Swedish culture is an offshoot of the Norse culture which dominated southern Scandinavia in prehistory. Sweden was the last of the Scandinavian countries to be Christianised, with pagan resistance apparently strongest in Svealand, where Uppsala was an old and important ritual site as evidenced by the tales of Uppsala temple.
Ten people were shot dead at the Campus Risbergska school in Orebro, before the suspected perpetrator - identified by a Reuters source and Swedish media as Rickard Andersson, a 35-year-old Swedish ...
Lists of people by city in Sweden (4 P) Swedish people by city and occupation (8 C) A. People from Alingsås (11 P) B. People from Bollnäs (26 P) People from Borås ...
Princess Sofia and Prince Carl Philip of Sweden are parents to the "perfect little quartet.". After the royal couple welcomed their fourth child and first daughter on Feb. 7, they shared the first ...
Eleven people are dead after a rampaging gunman opened fire at an adult education centre in central Sweden, in what has been called the country’s worst ever mass shooting.. Armed police were ...