Word info

New Sweden

Proper noun

Meaning

A town in Aroostook County, Maine.

(historical) A Swedish colony along the lower reaches of the Delaware River in America that existed from 1638 to 1655, established during the Thirty Years' War when Sweden was a great military power.

An unincorporated community in Bonneville County, Idaho, United States.

An unincorporated community in Travis County, Texas.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Alan Palmer, Bernadotte: Napoleon's Marshal, Sweden's King (1991) Colonies and slavery Sweden experimented briefly with overseas colonies, including " New Sweden " in Colonial America in the 1640s. Source: Internet

Expansion along the Delaware River beyond Fort Nassau did not begin until the 1650s, after the takeover of a Swedish colony, obviously called New Sweden which had been established at Fort Christina in 1638. Source: Internet

Colonial Delaware New Sweden – encounter between Swedish colonists and the natives of Delaware. Source: Internet

The eastern limit was the current border with New Jersey at the Delaware River, while the western limit was undefined. citation Pennsylvania immediately started to reorganize the lands of the former New Sweden within the limits of Pennsylvania. Source: Internet

The historian H. Arnold Barton has suggested that the greatest significance of New Sweden was the strong and long-lasting interest in North America that the colony generated in Sweden. Source: Internet

The next step in the assimilation of New Sweden into New York was the extension of the Duke's laws into the region. Source: Internet

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