Tag: Sweden

Sweden is a parliamentary monarchy in Scandinavia that is part of the EU. However, it has not joined the common currency, the euro. The country remains true to its principle of being free of alliances in peace and neutral in war. Sweden’s most important import and export partner is Germany. The Swedish companies Ikea, H&M, […]

Shopping Overview Glass and crystal goods, steel and silver items and hemslöjd (arts and crafts) and wood carvings. Shop opening hours: Mon-Fri 09.00-18.00 and Sat 09.00-16.00. In the big cities, department stores are open until 8pm/10pm on certain evenings, and some also on Sundays from 12pm to 4pm. In the countryside, shops/gas stations close at […]

Morphology The Sweden occupies the western part of the so-called Baltic shield. Geologically it is made up of soils of the Precambrian and Paleozoic ages, of mainly crystalline and metamorphic nature, affected by the oldest of the corrugations of the primary era, the Caledonian, and subsequently peneplanated by very long periods of erosion. Modified in the Tertiary […]

The assassination of the two dukes perpetrated by Birger led to his deposition (1319) and the throne passed to a son of Erik, Magnus Eriksson (1319-63), but his position was always weak: the monarchy became elective (1350), in 1359 Magnus summoned a Riksdag to Kalmar, that is, a Parliament in which the four states (nobles, clergy, bourgeois […]