He saw Sweden as a country of smug and narrow provincialism, indifferent to the heroic spirit of its former glory.

" If you live in a country like Sweden, with five, six months of snow, and the sun disappears totally for like two months, that would be reflected in the work of artists ," he said.

* Harpsund, official country residence for the Prime Minister of Sweden

Belief that the citizen's country has benefited from EU membership is lowest ( below 50 %) in the UK, Hungary, Latvia, Italy, Austria, Sweden and Bulgaria.

Bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Gulf of Finland, as well as Sweden, Norway, and Russia, Finland is the northernmost country on the European continent.

Finland is the seventh largest country in Europe after Russia, France, Ukraine, Spain, Sweden, and Germany.

Even in official context the area around Enontekiö in northwestern part of the country between Sweden and Norway can be refererred to as the " Arm " ( käsivarsi ).

Finland is the only Nordic country to have joined the Eurozone ; Denmark and Sweden have retained their traditional currencies, whereas Iceland and Norway are not members of the EU at all.

* 1808 – Without a previous declaration of war, Russian troops cross the border to Sweden at Abborfors in eastern Finland, thus beginning the Finnish war, in which Sweden will lose the eastern half of the country ( i. e. Finland ) to Russia.

* 1753 – In Sweden February 17 is followed by March 1 as the country moves from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.

Sweden passed legislation in 1982, the first Western country to do so.

Parallel occurrences indicate that it may mean " country of the Goths ": Old Icelandic Sui-þjòd, " Sweden "; Old English Angel-þēod, " Anglia "; Old Irish Cruithen-tuath, “ country of the Picts ”.

In 1972, Sweden became first country in the world to allow people who were transsexual by legislation to surgically change their sex and provide free hormone replacement therapy.

Within a few months, Sweden became the first country in the world to remove homosexuality as an illness.

Business Annals: United States, England, France, Germany, Austria, Russia, Sweden, Netherlands, Italy, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, South Africa, Australia, India, Japan, China ( 1926 ) capsule summary of conditions in each country for each quarter-year 1790-1925

Comparatively little production actually takes place in Sweden, though it still remains the fourth-largest supplier country ( behind China, Poland and Italy ).

Albrecht's enemies in 1388 elected Margaret as regent in the parts of Sweden that they controlled, and promised to assist her in conquering the rest of the country.

Probably in the early 980s Mieszko allied his country with Sweden against Denmark.

This system is used in many countries, including Finland ( open list ), Latvia ( open list ), Sweden ( open list ), Israel ( where the whole country is one closed list constituency ), Brazil ( open list ), the Netherlands ( open list ), Russia ( closed list ), South Africa ( closed list ), Democratic Republic of the Congo ( open list ).

The word is traditionally used for sovereign entities ; a country with a King or Queen as head of state, such as the United Kingdom or Sweden itself, is a ( kunga ) rike, literally a " royal realm ".

In addition to the ethnic Swedish majority, Sweden has historically had smaller minorities of Sami people in the northernmost parts of the country while Finns ( at 5 % of the total population ) are most prominent in the Mälardalen and in the north of Sweden.

As a response to the expanded military cooperation the defence proposition of 2009 stated that Sweden will not remain passive if a Nordic country or a member of the European Union were attacked.

This restless individualism found its answer when he returned to live nearly all the rest of his life in Sweden.

* Angola is represented in Denmark, through its embassy in Stockholm, ( Sweden ).

In 2001, Alfred Nobel's great-grandnephew, Peter Nobel ( b. 1931 ), asked the Bank of Sweden to differentiate its award to economists given " in Alfred Nobel's memory " from the five other awards.

) Hilton also claims a Roman Catholic monarch would therefore be unable to be crowned by the Archbishop of Canterbury and points to the examples of European states that have similar religious provisions for their monarchs: Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, whose constitutions compel their monarchs to be Lutherans, the Netherlands, the constitution of which insists its monarchs be members of the Protestant House of Orange, and Belgium, which has a constitution that provides for the succession to be through Roman Catholic houses.

Russia has an embassy in Gaborone, while Botswana covers Russia from its embassy in Stockholm ( Sweden ) and an honorary consulate in Moscow.

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.

For example in Sweden, the Swedish word totalförsvar refers to the commitment of a wide range of resources of the nation to its defense-including to civil protection.

Others, including the Church of Sweden, practice episcopal polity ; the Church of Sweden also counts its bishops among the historic episcopate as do some American Lutheran churches like the Anglo-Lutheran Catholic Church, Lutheran Orthodox Church, Lutheran Church-International, and the Lutheran Episcopal Communion.

Australia is represented in Finland through its embassy in Stockholm, Sweden, and through an honorary consulate in Helsinki.

The film first premiered outside Sweden at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival under its original title.

Sweden was not big enough, and its leadership was wary of confronting Russia.

Like other European nations, Sweden tried to protect and promote its national interests during the Finnish Civil War and World War I.

With its eight faculties and 57 departments, the University of Gothenburg is also one of the most wide-ranging and versatile universities in Sweden.

Gothenburg University has the highest number of applicants per study place in many of its subjects and courses, and is therefore one of the most popular universities in Sweden.

Hagi led the Romanian team to its best ever international performance at the 1994 World Cup, where the team reached the quarterfinals before Sweden ended their run after winning the penalty shoot-out.

It was independently isolated from cleveite in the same year by chemists Per Teodor Cleve and Abraham Langlet in Uppsala, Sweden, who collected enough of the gas to accurately determine its atomic weight.

Financed in part by the riches pouring in from its colonies, Spain became embroiled in the religiously charged wars and intrigues of Europe, including, for example, through its possessions in western Europe, engaging in wars with France, England, Sweden, and the Ottomans and in the Mediterranean and northern Africa.

Fortunately for Moscow, its major enemies, the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth and Sweden, were engaged in a bitter conflict with each other, which provided Russia the opportunity to make peace with Sweden in 1617 and to sign a truce with the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1619.

However, after Sweden had submitted its membership application in 1991 and the Soviet Union was dissolved at the end of the year, Finland submitted its own application to the EC in March 1992.

The first of these tells the mythological prehistory of the Norwegian royal dynasty, tracing Odin, described here as a mortal man, and his followers from the East, from Asaland and Asgard, its chief city, to their settlement in Scandinavia ( more precisely to east-central Sweden, according to Snorri ).