This form is standard in Asian countries, Hungary, Sweden and the US armed forces.

Originating in Germany, some form of co-determination ( or Mitbestimmung ) procedure is practised in countries across continental Europe, such as Holland and the Czech Republic, as well as Scandinavian countries ( e. g. Sweden ).

* 1794 – Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.

They were utilised with wood, bone, resin and fiber to form a composite tool or weapon, and traces of wood to which microliths were attached have been found in Sweden, Denmark and England.

Njörðr is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, in euhemerized form as a beloved mythological early king of Sweden in Heimskringla, also written by Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century, as one of three gods invoked in the 14th century Hauksbók ring oath, and in numerous Scandinavian place names.

During the 2006 Riksdag elections the new Alliance for Sweden ( which subsequently won the election, to form a coalition government ) stated a policy aim to sell its stake in TeliaSonera.

In the 17th century Sweden expanded its territories to form the Swedish empire.

The modern form of HVDC transmission uses technology developed extensively in the 1930s in Sweden at ASEA.

However, even in such circumstances, prostitution is sometimes considered a form a victimization, based on the prostitute's alleged situation as an object of exploitation ; for example, countries such as Sweden, Norway and Iceland have passed legislation outlawing the buying but not selling of sex.

* November 4, 1814: Constitution reenacted in order to form a personal union with the king of Sweden.

The form of government instituted in Sweden under King Charles XI and passed on to his son, Charles XII is commonly referred to as absolute monarchy ; however, the Swedish monarch was never absolute in the sense that he wielded arbitrary power.

Bhutan maintains diplomatic relations with ten European nations: Austria ; Belgium ; Denmark ; Finland ; the Netherlands ; Norway ; Serbia ; Spain ( with whom it established relations in February 2011 ); Sweden ; and Switzerland, which form the " Friends of Bhutan " group, along with Japan, which contributes towards development projects in Bhutan.

Norway then entered into a personal union with Sweden, removing only such amendments from its constitution as were necessary to form the Union between Sweden and Norway.

In 1 / 1 1967 the town of Karlshamn was united with Asarum, Hällaryd och Mörrum to form the present municipality when all local government units in Sweden became municipalities of unitary type ..

Linköping and neighbouring twin city Norrköping together form one of Sweden's biggest metropolitan areas ; The Linköping-Norrköping Corridor is therefore often referred to as The Fourth Metropolitan Region of Sweden, the other three being Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö.

Traditional Lindy Hop in its purest form is found in many US locations and in Sweden.

Ready-made wine glögg is normally sold at Systembolaget in Sweden, and in Alko in Finland, ready to heat and serve, and not in concentrate or extract form.

Sweden uses open lists and utilizes apparentment between lists of the same party and constituency to form a cartel, a group of lists that are legally allied for purposes of seat allocation.

This latter title was however already in the 16th century changed to the title Sveriges Konung, King of Sweden, and this short form of the title was also used frequently.

Common in all of Sweden are traditional ring dances, mostly in the form of dances where you are alternating dancing and making movements and gestures based on the songs, such as pretending that you are scrubbing laundry while singing about washing, or jumping as frogs during the song Små grodorna (" The little frogs ").

Eskoleia, the route through Eidskog, was ( and continues to be in the form of Riksvei 2 ) one of the most important traffic arteries between Norway and Sweden.

, sometimes referred to under its Latin form Sudermannia or Sudermania, is a historical province or landskap on the south eastern coast of Sweden.

In Sweden, there are several places named Tingvalla, which is the modern Swedish form of " Þingvellir ", and the Norwegian equivalent is found in the placename Tingvoll.

The family estate was situated near Vadstena on Lake Vattern in south central Sweden.

Whether in prose or poetry, all of Heidenstam's later work was concerned with Sweden.

From being a hated tyrant and madman he was now the symbol of all that was noblest and best in the history of Sweden.

The first surviving edition ( bilingual Swedish – Esperanto ) was published in Sweden in 2003.

Alexis Carrel was also a member of learned societies in the U. S., Spain, Russia, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Vatican City, Germany, Italy and Greece and received honorary doctorates from Queen's University of Belfast, Princeton University, California, New York, Brown University and Columbia University.

The last such ruling abbess was Sofia Albertina, Princess of Sweden.

One of the sons of Odin was Yngvi, founder of the Ynglingar, an early royal family of Sweden.

Weil returned to France via Sweden and the United Kingdom, and was detained at Le Havre in January 1940.

This attempted to prove that Sweden was Atlantis, the cradle of civilization, and Swedish the original language of Adam from which Latin and Hebrew had evolved.

In October 1943, shortly before he was to be arrested by the German police, Niels Bohr escaped to Sweden with his family, later travelling to London and on to work on the Manhattan Project.

The concept of an armored SPAAG was pioneered by Hungary during World War II Hungary by producing the 40M Nimrod based on the Luftvärnskanonvagn L-62 Anti II license acquired from Sweden.

The production at Rome of his opera Gli Equivoci nell sembiante ( 1679 ) gained him the support of Queen Christina of Sweden ( who at the time was living in Rome ), and he became her Maestro di Cappella.

Anders Celsius was born in Uppsala, Sweden on 27 November 1701.

The setting for the film was moved from Sweden to Austria.

Skyflash was also exported to Sweden for use on their Viggen fighters.

* In addition, Finnish, a Baltic-Finnic language, has calqued the Swedish term as Itämeri " East Sea ", disregarding the geography ( the sea is west of Finland ), though understandably since Finland was a part of Sweden from the Middle Ages until 1809.

* SS Empire Bell, a 1, 744 GRT collier which was built by Öresundsvarvet, Landskrona, Sweden as the 2, 023 GRT passenger ship Belgia in 1930

In 1992, he wrote the introduction melody for the European football championship, which was organised by Sweden that year.

Andersson's next project was Mamma Mia !, a musical built around 24 of ABBA's songs, which has become a worldwide box-office blockbuster with versions in several languages currently being played in many countries, including the UK ( West End premiere in April 1999 ), Canada ( Toronto premiere in 2000 ), the USA ( Broadway premiere in 2001 ), and Sweden ( Swedish language premiere in 2005 ).

Thus the discovery report by the Berkeley group reads: " It is suggested that element 97 be given the name berkelium ( symbol Bk ) after the city of Berkeley in a manner similar to that used in naming its chemical homologue terbium ( atomic number 65 ) whose name was derived from the town of Ytterby, Sweden, where the rare earth minerals were first found.

He was selected for the squad which competed at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden, but didn't kick a ball, something at which critics expressed surprise and bewilderment, even allowing for his lacklustre performance in Belgrade.

During the Viking Age, Birka ( Birca in medieval sources ), on the island of Björkö ( literally: " Birch Island ") in Sweden, was an important trading center which handled goods from Scandinavia as well as Central and Eastern Europe and the Orient.

Birka was also important as the site of the first known Christian congregation in Sweden, founded in 831 by Saint Ansgar.

The town was the center of Catholic missionary activities in the 9th century Sweden.