The idea that the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages are closely related to each other was allegedly first published in 1730 by Philip Johan von Strahlenberg, a Swedish officer who traveled in the eastern Russian Empire while a prisoner of war after the Great Northern War.

* 1660 – With the death of Swedish King Charles X Gustav, the Swedish government can start to seek peace with Sweden's enemies in the Second Northern War – something that Charles X Gustav had refused.

* 1702 – Great Northern War: A numerically superior Polish-Saxon army of Augustus II the Strong, operating from an advantageous defensive position, is defeated by a Swedish army half its size under the command of King Charles XII in the Battle of Klissow.

Swedish and German Catholic campaigns against Russian Eastern Orthodox Christians are also sometimes considered part of the Northern Crusades.

Pancake # Northern Europe | Swedish pancakes

During the Great Northern War, plague stricken Tallinn along with Swedish Estonia and Livonia capitulated to Imperial Russia in 1710, but the local self-government institutions ( Magistracy of Reval and Chivalry of Estonia ) retained their cultural and economical autonomy within Imperial Russia as the Duchy of Estonia.

During the Great Northern War it was looted by the Swedish army.

* 1700-1721: Great Northern War between Tsarist Russia and the Swedish Empire

Although the young Swedish King Charles XII ( 1682 – 1718 ; reigned 1697 – 1718 ) won spectacular victories in the early years of the Great Northern War, most notably in the stunning success against the Russians at the Battle of Narva ( 1700 ), his plan to attack Moscow and force Russia into peace proved too ambitious.

During the Swedish occupation of Middle Norway, 1658 – 1660, after Denmark-Norway's devastating defeat in the Northern Wars, the town became a hub of resistance to the Swedes.

After the Livonian War, Estonia became part of the Swedish Empire from the 16th century to 1710 / 1721, when it was ceded to the Russian Empire as the result of the Great Northern War.

The Great Northern War ( 1700 – 21 ) was a conflict in which a coalition led by the Tsardom of Russia successfully contested the supremacy of the Swedish Empire in Northern Europe, Central Europe and Eastern Europe.

Swedish King Charles X Gustav of Sweden | Charles X Gustav in skirmish with Tatars near Warsaw during the Second Northern War.

During his time with the Russian navy – particularly as part of the Great Northern War – he was unable to spend much time with Anna, who was approximately eleven years Bering's junior and the daughter of a Swedish merchant.

In 1657, a Swedish invasion during the Second Northern War partially destroyed the city.

Lutefisk ( Norwegian ) or Lutfisk ( Swedish ) or Ludfisk ( Danish ) ( pronounced in Northern Norway, in Central and Southern Norway, in Sweden and in Finland ()) is a traditional dish of the Nordic countries.

* The Northern Lights, the name used by Swedish folk group The Hootenanny Singers for an American LP release

* Northern Light, is a song sung by Swedish dance artist Basshunter

Further destruction followed during the Deluge ( Swedish invasion of Poland ), the Great Northern War and the War of the Fourth Coalition.

During the Great Northern War, Częstochowa was captured by Swedish army on August 11, 1702.

Gobineau's basic concept, as further refined and developed in Nazism, places the black Aboriginal Australians and " African savages " at the bottom of the hierarchy, while the white Northern and Western European Aryans ( consisting of Germans, Finnish, Swedish, Icelanders, Norwegians, Danish, British, French, Northern Italians, Irish and Dutch ) were at the top ; white olive-skinned Southern Europeans ( consisting of the Spanish, Southern Italians, Greeks and Portuguese, i. e. those of what is called the Mediterranean race, which was regarded as another subrace of the Caucasian race ) in the upper middle ranks ; Slavs ( Even though the Slavs are white and of Indo-European ancestry, the Nazis placed them lower on the scale because they were regarded as primarily of the Alpine race rather than the Nordic race, and thus fit only to be peasants.

In 1700, a triple alliance of Denmark – Norway, Saxony – Poland – Lithuania and Russia launched a threefold attack on the Swedish protectorate of Swedish Holstein-Gottorp and provinces of Livonia and Ingria, aiming to draw advantage as Sweden was unaligned and ruled by a young and inexperienced king, thus initiating the Great Northern War.

Gdańsk itself has a population of 455, 830 ( June 2010 ), making it the largest city in the Pomerania region of Northern Poland.

There is no sharp dividing line between its western dialects and adjacent Northern Low Saxon dialects on the one hand and between its eastern dialects and dialects of Western Pomerania on the other hand.

In 1720 the southern parts of Swedish Pomerania with the town of Stettin and the islands of Usedom and Wollin were ceded to the Kingdom of Prussia, following the Great Northern War.

The main cause for the Swedish intervention in the Seven Years ' War was that the Hats faction then in power in Sweden believed Frederick II of Prussia would succumb to his many enemies, thus affording Sweden a risk-free opportunity to recapture its possessions in Pomerania that it had ceded to Prussia in 1720, towards the end of the Great Northern War.

The first years of the Great Northern War did not affect Pomerania.

In November 1714, as a direct result of Swedish defeats in the Great Northern War against Imperial Russia, Swedish King Charles XII unsuccessfully sought an alliance with Sultan Ahmed III ; on his way back from Istanbul, the monarch, met by troops under the command of Axel Sparre, passed through Pitești, and, after a three-week stay, made his way to Swedish Pomerania through Habsburg-ruled regions.

The Great Northern War had now entered upon its later stage, when Sweden, beset on every side by foes, employed her fleet principally to transport troops and stores to the distressed Swedish Pomerania provinces.

Although the Legion never fought autonomously, its units participated in campaigns in Hanover, Pomerania, Copenhagen and Walcheren, the Peninsular under General Sir John Moore ; and the retreat to Corunna ; the Peninsular Campaign under the Duke of Wellington, including the battles of Bussaco, Barrosa, Fuentes de Onoro, Albuera, Ciudad Rodrigo, Salamanca, Garcia Hernandez, Burgos, Venta del Pozo, Vittoria, San Sebastian, Nivelle, Sicily and the eastern parts of Spain, Northern Germany and Göhrde.

During the 1560s, Pomerania was caught between the Northern Seven Years ' War for hegemony in the Baltic Sea and the struggle for hegemony in the Upper Saxon Circle of the Electorate of Saxony and Brandenburg.

In 936, the Holy Roman Empire set up the Billung and Northern marches in Western Pomerania, divided by the Peene river.

Dalregementet was shipped to Pomerania in 1655 following the outbreak of the Northern Wars.

( born c. 1435 in Lassan in Pomerania ; died winter 1508 / 1509 in Lübeck ) was the most important German painter and sculptor in Northern Europe in his times.

I am concerned here, however, with the Northern liberal's attitude toward the South.

Obviously, such a Northern tourist's purpose is somewhat akin to a child's experience with Disneyland: he wants to see a world of make-believe.

For some time, despondency in some Northern quarters had been displayed in two ways -- an eagerness for peace and a dissatisfaction with Lincoln.

The U.N.-chartered plane which was flying from the conference city of Ndola in Northern Rhodesia had been riddled with machinegun bullets last weekend and was newly repaired.

Two companies now had headquarters with Clark J. Wait, who by then had his own drugstore at Factory Point -- the `` Northern Union Telegraph Company '' and the `` Western Union ''.

The education bill appears to be temporarily stalled in the Rules Committee, where two Northern Democratic members who usually vote with the Administration are balking because of the religious controversy.

Meanwhile, Douglas was selected as the candidate of the Northern Democrats, with Herschel Vespasian Johnson as the vice-presidential candidate.

Turnout was 82. 2 percent, with Lincoln winning the free Northern states, as well as California and Oregon.

" Republicans denounced the Dred Scott decision and promised to overturn it ; Lincoln warned that the next Dred Scott decision could threaten Northern states with slavery.

But political debate was cut short throughout the South with Northern abolitionist John Brown's 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry Armory in an attempt to incite slave insurrections.

The town's name is attested as Aisincurt in 1175, derived from a Germanic masculine name Aizo, Aizino and the early Northern French word curt ' farm with a courtyard ' ( Late Latin cortem ).

April ( ) is commonly associated with the season of spring in the Northern hemisphere and autumn in the Southern hemisphere, where it is the seasonal equivalent to October in the Northern hemisphere and vice versa.

The Bakufu government granted the Matsumae clan exclusive rights to trade with the Ainu in the Northern part of the island.

* Ginger fried beef – 乾炒牛肉絲 gānchǎo niúròu-sī Tender beef cut in strings, battered, deep dried, then re-fried in wok mixed with a sweet sauce, a variation of a popular Northern Chinese dish.

* 1699 – Khalsa: The Sikh Religion was formalised as the Khalsa-the brotherhood of Warrior-Saints-by Guru Gobind Singh in Northern India, in accordance with the Nanakshahi calendar.

In Australia's Federal Parliament, the ACT is represented by four federal members: two members of the House of Representatives ; the Division of Fraser and the Division of Canberra and is one of only two territories to be represented in the Senate, with two Senators ( the other being the Northern Territory ).

Although Dürer made no innovations in these areas, he is notable as the first Northern European to treat matters of visual representation in a scientific way, and with understanding of Euclidean principles.

For approximately two to three weeks on either side of November 30, Antares is not visible in the night sky, because it is near conjunction with the Sun ; this period of invisibility is longer in the Northern Hemisphere than in the Southern Hemisphere, since the star's declination is significantly south of the celestial equator.

Berlin is situated in northeastern Germany, approximately west of the Polish border, in an area of low-lying marshy woodlands with a mainly flat topography, part of the vast Northern European Plain which stretches all the way from northern France to western Russia.

It will be part of the " Northern Marmara Motorway ", which will be further integrated with the existing Black Sea Coastal Highway.

The 2011 figures show an increase of some 64, 000 speakers compared to the 2006 figures to 714, 136, with significant increases in the Autonomous Community but a slight drop in the Northern Basque Country to 51, 100, overall amounting to an increase to 27 % of all inhabitants of Basque provinces ( 2, 648, 998 in total ).

The events described in the poem take place in the late 5th century, after the Anglo-Saxons had begun their migration to England, and before the beginning of the 7th century, a time when the Anglo-Saxon people were either newly arrived or still in close contact with their Germanic kinsmen in Scandinavia and Northern Germany.

" In addition to the lack of evidence, scientists cite the fact that Bigfoot is alleged to live in regions unusual for a large, nonhuman primate, i. e., temperate latitudes in the northern hemisphere ; all recognized nonhuman apes are found in the tropics of Africa and Asia ( although some smaller primates, such as Japanese macaques, are found in Asia up to the latitude of Northern California, and can cope with air temperatures to-20 ° C (- 4 ° F )).

This broad-winged raptor has a wide variety of plumages, and in Europe can be confused with the similar Rough-legged Buzzard ( Buteo lagopus ) and the only distantly related European Honey Buzzard ( Pernis apivorus ), which mimics the Common Buzzard's plumage for a degree of protection from Northern Goshawks.