About Sweden

This site is running by Hans Högman. His site contains information about Swedish History and especially Swedish Military History. You will find information in English about Some facts about Swedish History (Swedish history, Old Swedish measurements and weights, The history of the Swedish monetary system, Swedish names of diseases in earlier times, Agricultural yields and years of famine, The great redistribution of land holdings, History and organization of the Church of Sweden, A civil Allotment System, The change of calendars, Swedish naming practices in earlier times, The Swedish Citizen's Codes, The Swedish Parliament, the Riksdag, The witch trial in Torsåker, Sweden 1675 and the clergyman Hornaues, Land ownership in earlier times - Farmers and Crofters, 'Statare'(Agricultural labourer receiving allowance), Swedish inventions, Map, Swedish counties, Map, Swedish provinces, Swedish Military History (A Summary of the Allotment System, Swedish Regiments during the days of the Allotment System, Rotas in the Allotment System, The many Swedish wars, Naval battles, Rota numbers in Närke-Värmland regiment 1812, The Navy, The Galley fleet, The History of the Karlberg War Academy, Swedish Military Research, Military ranks, Military terms). This site also contains information in English about e.g. some facts about Sweden, Genealogy in Sweden, Swedish/English dictionary - genealogy terms, Hans' genealogy research of his family and lot of more.

‘General information about Sweden...A bit of Swedish (and Scandinavian) history...’, Luleå University. Contains: About these documents…, Latest news, Reference Literature, A bulletin board for message to the author or other viewers, Prehistoric times.., The Viking Age, The Great Power Period.

A Virtual Museum that contains a description in brief about The Viking Age, The time of Great Power, The Caroline Area, The Big Nordic Wars, Time of Freedom, Gustavian Era. The V. Museum alss contains an interactive Map with historical places around Sweden and The virtual Museum of Nyköping, the medieval town and castle of Nyköping. The site also contain a link page ‘Some fun additional info about Sweden in no particular order for fun reading and also some links’.