Other Collections Relevant to Swedish History

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Ranging from Runes and the Poetic Edda to the Christmas messages of King Carl Gustaf XVI.
Also available by thematic search.
(Mainly Swedish texts; transcriptions)

Swedish royal and regents, plus other historical persons:
Biographical and genealogical data.
Alphabetically searchable, 35 generations, approx. 1700 persons
(Tenth to twentieth centuries; transcriptions and images)

A website, sponsored by the Usenet newsgroup "soc.culture.nordic,"
in form of a chronology, but with links to primary documents
and a chronological list of Swedish monarchs.
(829-1994; English transcriptions and commentary)

Links to databases identified by the online journal Nättidningen Svensk Historia
as helpful in gathering vital statistics, images, documents, etc.
(Searchable historical databases)

Chronological commentary with links to primary documents from the Belorus past.
Includes relations and wars with France, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden and Ukraine.
(13th century to present; Belarus transcriptions, English translations, images, maps and commentary).

Provided by the Latvian National Library
(16th to 18th centuries; map facsimiles and descriptions)

A growing source for photos of historical sites in Sweden, searchable by area, type of site, and age of site.
(Prehistoric to present; photos)

Includes primary and secondary documents, provided by Don Mabry.
(Transcriptions, facsimiles and commentaries, mostly in English)

From the Swedish War Archives.
(Transcriptions, photographs and Swedish-language annotations)

Of particular interest are Resenärer i Norden (travelers' descriptions) and Länksida (links to maps and other sources).
(16th to 20th centuries; facsimiles, transcriptions, maps, etc.)

(Facsimiles).

Accumulated numbers from the Swedish Central Bureau for Statistics.
The more complete version is in Swedish.

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