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31 unusual facts about sweden


Alsen

Alsen, Sweden, a parish and former municipality in Jämtland County, Sweden

Arvid Andrén

Arvid Andrén (1902 – 1999) was a Swedish classical art historian who focused his work on decorative architectural terracotta sculpture from ancient Italy.

Chile–Finland relations

Initially Chile was represented in Finland through its embassies in Stockholm, Sweden and Oslo, Norway.

Communist Party of Sweden

Communist Party in Sweden, KPS, a pro-Albanian, dissenter group from the former, formed in 1982 but dissolved in 1993,

Communist Workers' Party of Sweden, SKA, an anti-Deng Xiaoping, split-off from the former, formed in 1980 but dissolved in 1993,

County councils of Sweden

The Swedish name of these regional municipalities, Landsting, is the same as was used by the supreme tings of the historical provinces of Sweden.

Cyrillus Johansson

During the 1950s, he was mainly engaged in church building (e.g., the church in Björneborg) and restoration.

Duchess of Sweden

Ingeborg, Princess of Sweden, Duchess of Sweden 1248–1254, it is unknown whether this was a primary title in its own right or adopted as consort of Birger Jarl

Frey Svenson

Frey Svenson (1866–1927) was a Swedish doctor and professor of psychology, born in Vetlanda, Sweden.

Fucking Mess

It was released in 2008 on blue vinyl in an edition of 630 by the Swedish label Lystring.

Häggviks stave church

Häggviks stave church is a replica of a stave church in Häggvik, Nordingrå court district, Norrland province of Sweden.

Hållandsgårdens stave church

Hållandsgårdens stave church is a replica of a stave church in Åre municipality, Jämtland county of Sweden.

Halle Steensland House

The house was built for Norwegian immigrant Halle Steensland, who later served as a U.S. Vice Consul in Sweden and Norway.

Haninge Municipality

There are over 3,600 islands, islets and skerries belonging to the municipality, with the three largest islands being Utö, Ornö and Muskö.

Jamtamót

"Since then the autonomy has become strengthened and today the county of Jämtland has approximately the same rôle of autonomy within Sweden as Åland had within Finland already in the end of the 1900s. Jamtamót has developed into a strong regional parliament. A sign of the support behind the parliament is that nowadays, the people of Härjedalen never speak about leaving the county of Jämtland for Gävleborg."

Margareta Elisabeth Roos

Her daughter with Irving, Margareta Charlotta Irving, married the vicar of Bro, Nils Larsson Sundell, and Roos spent much of her old age with her daughter and son-in-law.

Morjärv railway station

Morjärv Station (Morjärv järnvägsstation in Swedish, Morajärven rautatieasema in Finnish) is a railway station located on the Boden to Haparanda railway line in the village of Morjärv in northern Sweden.

Närke and Värmland County

Since Närke only corresponded the southern part of the remaining territory and the name was changed to reflect the city where the Governor resided, namely Örebro.

Norrbottens pansarbataljon

It is still in active service, and is currently garrisoned in Boden, Norrbotten as part of Norrbottens regemente.

Örebro County Council

The Örebro County Council (Örebro läns landsting) is the County Council of Örebro County in Sweden.

Over-Governor of Stockholm

The Over-Governor, or Överståthållaren of Stockholm was the highest official for the City between 1634 and 1967.

Renewable Energy Corporation

In 2002 REC ScanCell started production of multicrystalline solar cells in Narvik for the sister company REC ScanModule in Glava, Arvika.

Systerskapets år

Systerskapets år (The Year of Sisterhood) is a nine-hour-long film by Åsa Elzén and Sonia Hedstrand documenting events in the feminist movement in Sweden for a period of one year: August, 2003, through the end of July, 2004.

Tålamod

Tålamod was released on October 24, 2007 and is a studio album from Swedish pop singer Shirley Clamp.

Tankafritt

Tankafritt or Tankafritt.nu, which translates literally as download freely (.now), was started in Sweden in June 2006.

Texas State Highway Loop 360

Charles Johnson, a native of Sweden, procurred the original 124 acre (0.5 km²) ranch on the south side of present-day Loop 360 in 1867.

Trelleborg parish

Trelleborg parish is a parish belonging to the Diocese of Lund in the Church of Sweden and encompasses Trelleborg Municipality in Sweden.

Uppland Runic Inscription 181

Uppland Runic Inscription 181 or U 181 is the Rundata catalog number for a Viking Age memorial runestone located at Össeby-Garn, which is about one kilometer east of Karby, Uppsala County, Sweden.

Utö

Utö, Sweden, an island in the Stockholm archipelago in Sweden

Västra Götaland Regional Council

The Västra Götaland Regional Council, or Västra Götalandsregionen, is the devolved County Council of Västra Götaland County in Sweden.

Volvo Penta

The company has a number of manufacturing bases for diesel engines at Vara, Sweden, Wuxi, China; and Lexington, Tennessee, United States, for all gasoline engines and sterndrives.


1975 Davis Cup

A protest march was organized in Båstad by the Swedish Social Democratic Youth League on September 18, ending at the town square, where former prime minister Tage Erlander and Sweden's former ambassador to Chile Harald Edelstam addressed a crowd of some 3,000.

Acid Survivors Foundation

April 28, 2011, Dr. Monira Rahman, Murhabazi Namegabe, and Cecilia Flores-Oebanda are honored as the Children's Rights Heroes for millions of children at the Gripsholm Castle in Mariefred, Sweden.

Ancestry of Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden

House of Mecklenburg, in which a princess of Sweden Euphemia, have ancestors there and (in several ways) in all ruling royal houses of Europe through her son Magnus I of Mecklenburg and grandson Magnus II, Duke of Mecklenburg

Apostolic Lutheran Church of America

However, there were a number belonging to a party founded by Provost Lars Levi Laestadius, of Pajala, Sweden.

Björn Lodin

In 1992 Lodin relocated from Sweden to the Åland Islands, Finland, where he met Bulgarian guitarist Nikolo Kotzev, who subsequently joined Baltimoore for two albums.

Carl II

Charles VIII of Sweden or Carl II, King of Sweden (and of Norway as Carl I) (1409–1470)

Catalina affair

The first aircraft to be shot down was an unarmed Swedish Air Force Tp 79, a derivative of the Douglas DC-3, carrying out radio and radar signals intelligence-gathering for the National Defence Radio Establishment.

Dalen Hotel

After its opening in 1894, the hotel drew royal guests from all over Europe, playing host to the likes of King Oscar II of Sweden, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, King Leopold II of Belgium, King Haakon VII of Norway and his family, and several members of the British aristocracy.

Daniel Biveson

Biveson has represented Sweden in Men's Parallel Giant Slalom at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, and at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

Distant Land

Principal photography took place on Fårö and in a studio in Fårösund, Sweden.

Duchies in Sweden

Such modern ducal titles are handled by the King of Sweden personally, are unregulated by law and not registered as names in the Swedish Tax Agency's population census.

Elite party

A prominent example of a political system based on elite parties were the Hats and Caps parties in Sweden during the Age of Liberty (1719–1772).

Flag of the Nordic Council

The Swan has enough wing feathers standing for the eight members and territories of the Council: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Åland, the Faroe Islands and Greenland.

Frank Arnesen

It was also in his time at Ajax, that Arnesen debuted for the Danish national team, in a 1977 friendly 1–0 loss against Sweden, in Malmö.

Gabriella Håkansson

She now lives in the countryside in the south of Sweden, with fellow author Thomas Engstrom.

Get Started

Released in 2012 on EMI Sweden, the 10-track album contains collaborations with Khoen, Lazee and Nawuel.

Heilbronn League

The Heilbronn League was an alliance between Sweden, France, and the Protestant princes of Western Germany against the Catholic League during the Thirty Years' War.

Husqvarna TR650

The company began producing motorcycles in 1903 at Huskvarna, Sweden, as a subsidiary of the Husqvarna armament firm.

In the Affirmative

Though Lelouch had experienced failure with his debut feature Le Propre de l'homme, he managed to gain favourable exposure when the film was sent to be exhibited in Sweden and earned compliments from Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman.

International Atomic Energy Agency

Cole served only one term, after which the IAEA was headed by two Swedes for nearly four decades: the scientist Sigvard Eklund held the job from 1961 to 1981, followed by former Swedish Foreign Minister Hans Blix, who served from 1981 to 1997.

Jacopo Foroni

After studies with Alberto Mazzucato in Milan Foroni worked as a conductor in France, Belgium and Holland before arriving in Sweden in 1849 to work for Vincenzo Galli's opera company at the Mindre teatern where he gave the Swedish premieres of works by Bellini and Donizetti as well as the young Verdi.

Jahn Teigen

Prima Vera had a number of hits, including such classics as Så lykkelig i Sverige ('So happy in Sweden', a version of The Turtles' So happy together) Det er Norge som er bra and De gærne har det godt.

Jubileumspokalen

Jubileumspokalen (literally: The Jubilee Trophy) or Solvallas Jubileumspokal is an annual Group One harness event for trotters that is held at Solvalla in Stockholm, Sweden.

La Belle Alliance

Blücher, the Prussian commander, suggested that the battle should be remembered as la Belle Alliance, to commemorate the European Seventh Coalition of Britain, Russia, Prussia, the Netherlands, Sweden, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Sardinia, and a number of German States which had all joined the coalition to defeat the French Emperor.

Lilla Vilunda runestones

The Lilla Vilunda runestones are three Viking Age memorial runestones that were erected by members of the same family and which are located at Lilla Vilunda in Upplands Väsby, Stockholm County, Sweden, and in the historic province of Uppland.

Maria Montazami

In January 2011, Monatazami appeared in a television commercial for the travel agency Ving in Sweden.

Mikael Blomkvist

Blomkvist is an investigative journalist and co-owner of the monthly magazine Millennium based out of Stockholm, Sweden.

National Association for Struggle against Communism

National Association for Struggle against Communism (in Swedish: Nationalföreningen för kommunismens bekämpande) was a short-lived anti-communist political organization in Sweden.

Operation Graffham

Sir Victor Mallet, the British Minister to Sweden, was recalled to London for a briefing on the operation.

Örebro University Hospital

Örebro University Hospital (Swedish: Universitetssjukhuset Örebro, USÖ) is a university hospital in Örebro, Sweden.

Øyvin Thon

He is also five times Relay champion, as a member of the Norwegian winning teams in 1981 (Thun, Switzerland), 1983 (Zalaegerszeg, Hungary), 1985 (Bendigo, Australia), 1987 (Gérardmer, France) and 1989 (Skaraborg, Sweden).

Per Anger

Soon afterwards, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs offered him a trainee position at the Swedish legation in Berlin, which he began in January 1940.

Periclase

In addition to its type locality, it is reported from Predazzo, Tyrol, Austria; Carlingford, County Louth, Ireland; Broadford, Skye and the island of Muck, Scotland; León, Spain; the Bellerberg volcano, Eifel district, Germany; Nordmark and Långban, Varmland, Sweden; and Kopeysk, southern Ural Mountains, Russia.

Plague Recordings

Artists included Maarten van der Vleuten (Netherlands), Scanner (UK), The Caretaker (UK/Germany), vidnaObmana (Belgium), Moljebka Pvlse (Sweden), Ondo (Sweden), Machinist & Mendel Kaelen (Netherlands).

Roy Nielsen

Operation Derby initially focused on black propaganda directed towards German soldiers, but they also issued the undercover magazine Fritt Land, and distributed the bi-weekly magazine Håndslag (produced in Sweden) and the monthly magazine Det frie Norge (from the Norwegian government in London).

Shūkōkai

Sanshin-kan (糸東流三身館空手道), taught since 1965 in Stockholm, Sweden, by Tamas Weber, a student of Tani, and others like Hayashi, Kuniba.

Sigfrid of Sweden

Saint Sigfrid (Sigfried, Siegfrid, Siegfried, Sigfridus, Sigurd) (Glastonbury, England,  – Växjö, 1045) was a Benedictine monk and bishop in Sweden; he converted king Olof Skötkonung in 1008.

Södermanland Runic Inscription 352

Södermanland Runic Inscription 352 or Sö 352 is a Viking Age memorial runestone located at Linga, which is about two kilometers south of Järna, Stockholm County, Sweden, which was in the historic province of Södermanland.

Stena Match Cup Sweden

Stena Match Cup Sweden (previously Swedish Match Cup) is a sailing event on the World Match Racing Tour held in Marstrand, Sweden in the beginning of July every year.

Stenkilsson

Halsten Stenkilsson, became king of Sweden after his father Stenkil's death in 1066

Sven Lampa

Sven Lampa ( 17 November 1839, Skaraborg – 2 December 1914, Lidingön) was a Swedish entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.

Sweden in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010

On 1 October SVT revealed their entry for Minsk: 13 year old Josefine Ridell was selected to represent Sweden with the song "Allt jag vill ha" (Everything I want), written by Josefine, four-time Eurovision songwriter Thomas G:son, 2009 Azeri contestant Arash, Robert Uhlmann and Johan Bejerholm.

Swedish county road 260

Swedish county road 260 (Länsväg 260) is a primary county road in Sweden from the Lugnet junction on the border of Stockholm and Nacka to the Handen junction beneath national road 73 in Haninge.

Swedish Trotting Oaks

The Swedish Trotting Oaks (Swedish: Svenskt Trav-Oaks or only Oaks) is an annual national Group One harness event for trotters that is held at Solvalla in Stockholm, Sweden.

The Symphonic Ellington

Recorded at Salle Wagram, Paris on January 31, 1963 (tracks 3 & 6), at Solna-Sundbyberg, Sweden on February 8, 1963 (tracks 1 & 2), at Hamburg, Germany on February 14, 1963 (track 4) and at at Studio Zanibelli, Milan, Italy on February 21, 1963 (track 5).

Tonight I Have to Leave It

"Tonight I Have to Leave It" is the first single from Our Ill Wills, the second album from the Swedish band Shout Out Louds.

Uppland Runic Inscription 53

Uppland Runic Inscription 53 is a runestone built into a wall in the intersection between the thoroughfares Prästgatan and Kåkbrinken in Gamla stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden.

Venersborg, Washington

:Venersborg redirects here; for the city in Sweden, see Vänersborg

Where Were You Last Night

Where Were You Last Night is a 1989 album released by Swedish pop artist Ankie Bagger.

William Findley

At one point, Constitutional Convention delegate James Wilson and Pennsylvania Chief Justice Thomas McKean disputed one of Findley's statements about jury trials in Sweden; Findley returned two days later with William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England and demonstrated that his reference had been correct.