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September 28th, 2009

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Geography of Sweden through History

Previously: Ethiopia – Poland – Armenia – Persia – Russia I – Russia II – Russia III – India – Britannia

Yet another ComingAnarchy.com portrayal of the shifting historical borders of a nation through history. (The picture below is an animated gif file and some computers may take some time to load the entire file before you can view the animation.)

sweden through history

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Lexington Green
September 28, 2009
4:48 pm
One quibble -- 1809 "independence" of Finland was really loss of Finland to Russia -- I got that from a Swedish friend I sent this to.
Master Cook
September 28, 2009
6:52 pm
I was going to point out the same thing.

Technically, Finland was an autonomous Grand Duchy between 1809 and 1917, where the Grand Duke happened to be the Russian Tsar. And it was administered separately from the rest of the Russian Empire and did have genuine local autonomy. The Tsars seemed to like Finland and worked to keep their bureaucrats from treating it like the rest of their empire. In many ways this prefigured the Finland -USSR relationship after World War II.

Still to call Finland "independent" after 1809 stretches things a bit.
Lexington Green
September 28, 2009
10:01 pm
Maybe "1809 Finland under Russian administration" would capture it.
Alfred Russel Wallace
September 28, 2009
10:30 pm
I think the period 1397-1523 was dominated by Denmark - is that correct?
s
October 4, 2009
9:49 am
wonder if you would like to make an animation based on this series?

http://www.geocities.jp/eurasiamap/

http://sun-bin.blogspot.com/2009/10/full-historical-map-of-world.html