Empire1397 – 1523 · 126 years

Kalmar Union

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Overview

The Kalmar Union was a personal union in Scandinavia, agreed at Kalmar in Sweden as designed by Queen Margaret of Denmark. From 1397 to 1523, it joined under a single monarch the three kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, together with Norway's maritime colonies.

Wikipedia: Kalmar Union·CC BY-SA 4.0

Borders & accuracy

Reconstructed borders

Solid borders are reconstructed from canonical historical-basemap data or hand-crafted from scholarly atlases.

SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
DETAILhistorical-basemaps (Ourednik)
SNAPSHOT1500
POLITY TYPEstate

Wars of this empire6

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

Kalmar Union Wars1389–1523
Regional · 30K dead
Battle of Brunkeberg1471
Regional
Battle of Rotebro1497
Regional
Battle of Hemmingstedt1500
Regional
Battle of Brannkyrka1518
Regional
Battle of Bogesund1520
Regional

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1397 and fits the map to these borders.

Cite as: Kalmar Union (1397 – 1523). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/kalmar-union · Sources & methodology