Empire1611 – 1721 · 110 years
Swedish Empire
Overview
The Swedish Empire or the Great Power era was the period in Swedish history spanning much of the 17th and early 18th centuries during which Sweden was a European great power that exercised territorial control over much of the Baltic region. During this period it also held territories on the North Sea and some overseas colonies, including New Sweden. The beginning of the period is usually taken as the reign of Gustavus Adolphus, who ascended the throne in 1611, and its end as the loss of territories in 1721 following the Great Northern War.
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Borders & accuracy
Solid borders are reconstructed from canonical historical-basemap data or hand-crafted from scholarly atlases.
- SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
- DETAILhistorical-basemaps (Ourednik)
- SNAPSHOT1700
- POLITY TYPEstate
Wars of this empire135
Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.
- Thirty Years' War1618–48World-changing · 8.0M dead
- World-changing
- Major conflict · 300K dead
- Swedish Great Northern War1700–21Major conflict · 300K dead
- Great Northern War1700–21Major conflict · 200K dead
- Major conflict
- Major conflict
- Major conflict
- Major conflict
- Swedish-Polish Wars1600–60Significant · 500K dead
- Polish-Russian War1605–18Significant · 300K dead
- Dano-Swedish Wars1534–1660Significant · 200K dead
- Polish-Swedish War1655–60Significant · 100K dead
- Significant
- Significant
- Battle of Jankau1645Significant
- Second Northern War1655–60Significant
- Scanian War1675–79Significant
- Ingrian War1610–17Regional
- Kalmar War1611–13Regional
- Regional
- Regional
- Regional
- Battle of Gdov1614Regional
+ 111 more in the atlas.
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Cite as: Swedish Empire (1611 – 1721). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/swedish-empire · Sources & methodology