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The country has a significant literary tradition and an internationally renowned music industry, and the country's athletes have excelled in both summer and winter sports.


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The name Sweden arose on the basis of the Roslagen region.


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[3] [4] Natural geography Sweden covers an area of 450295square kilometers.


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[1] It borders on the east and south by the Baltic Sea and in the southwest by the North Sea.


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The country is located almost in its entirety on the Scandinavian peninsula.


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The large islands of Gotland and Öland in the Baltic Sea belong to Sweden.


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The highest point is the 2111 metre-high Kebnekaise in Lapland.


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The Skands running across Norway in a north—south direction, or the old Kölu Mountain, also extend to Sweden in some places, but their highest peaks remain at 1500 m on the Swedish side.


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Three major rivers, Umeå River, Tornionjoki and Ångerman River, descend into the Gulf of Bothnia.


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South of the mountains is the Lake District.


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The largest of the lakes Vänern, is the third largest lake in Europe.


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Climate Sweden's climate is influenced by its northern location and the protection afforded by the Skands from the warm, humid winds of the Atlantic.


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In much of the country, the climate is quite continental, with summers warm and winters cold.


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The exception is the western coast of the Gothenburg region, where the sea stays mostly melted and keeps winters mild.


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[5] According to the Köppen climate classification, there is a warm-summer continental climate in the southern parts and coasts of Sweden, a subarctic continental climate in the northern parts and inland regions.


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The fells also have tundra in some places.


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[6] Nature and nature conservation More than half of Sweden is covered with forest.


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The most common tree species are spruce (42 per cent), pine (39 per cent) and birch (12 per cent).


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[7] Alvars are called dry heather and keto vegetation limestone uplands that exist in Öland.


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[8] Sweden's six major mammal species are elk, wolverine, wolf, bear, lynx and musk ox.


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There are many moose, including near towns.


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Wolverines live mainly in the reindeer herding area and bears in northwestern Sweden, musk oxen are found in Härjedalen and southwestern Sweden.


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[9] Sweden has 29 national parks.


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The first nine of them were established in 1909.


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In addition to them, the country has 3200 nature reserves covering a total of four million hectares.


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Of the 4000 Natura 2000 areas in the country, about 60% are national parks or nature reserves.


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[10] A rustic landscape in Skåne.


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Stockholm archipelago.


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Hällingsåfallet waterfall in Jämtland.


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Lapporten mountain valley in Kiruna.


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History Prehistory With the end of the Ice Age people began to settle in Sweden, first on ice-free coasts and later also inland.


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The glacier had completely disappeared around the year 7000 BCE.


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The settlement was mobile, during summer fishing and catching seals along the coast, for the winter at least part of the population moved inland on deer hunts.


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In the Early Stone Age, there were only a few thousand inhabitants.


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Approximately 5000 years BCE.


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earthenware came into use.


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[11] Around the years 4100—1700 BCE.


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Stone Age communities in southern and central Sweden already practiced farming and animal husbandry.


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[12] During the Bronze Age, around 1700—500 BCE, a class society was formed capable of controlling the manufacture and ownership of precious metals such as gold and bronze.


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A wide variety of needbones for posthumous life have been found in upper class graves.


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[13] Of the Bronze Age artifacts some were made locally, some were imported from continental Europe.


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In continental Europe, iron began to be used in everyday objects earlier than in Scandinavia.


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[14] Iron gradually came into use in Scandinavia, and the Iron Age dated back to around 500 BCE.


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— 1050 share.


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In the Iron Age, runic inscription was developed, Scandinavians were recruited into the Roman Empire's army, and international migrations changed European power structures.


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[15] [16] From the Viking Age to the Middle Ages during the 8th and 9th centuries, a Viking culture prevailed in southern and central Sweden.


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Swedish Vikings traded, warred and moved around the Baltic Sea region, Russia and all the way up to the Black Sea.


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[17] Christianity arrived in Sweden as early as the Viking Age, but did not become definitively established until the 12th century.


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[18] Sweden extended its power to Western Finland with the so-called Second Crusade in 1249-1250 and the Third Crusade to Karelia in Eastern Finland in 1293.


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The eastern border against Novgorod was agreed at the Peace of the Nut Island in 1323.


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[19] Northern Finland and Lapland were still excluded from the actual administration for a long period of time.


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In connection with the Crusades, the Swedes colonized the coastal areas of Finland in the 12th and 13th centuries.


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Sweden also swept its power to Ostrobothnia, where valuable salted salmon was obtained.


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[20] Union and Great Reign of Kalmar In 1389, Margaret I, the head of state of Denmark and Norway, also became ruler of Sweden.


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The Kalmar Union proper came about in 1397 when Margaret's relative Eerik the Pomeranian was crowned king of the entire Nordic region in Kalmar.


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[21] In the 15th century, Sweden experienced both internal power struggles and rebellion against the Union.


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Sweden seceded from the Union by force of a revolt movement led by Gustav Vasa.


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Gustav Vasa was crowned king of independent Sweden in 1523.


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Under Gustav Vasa, Sweden became a Protestant state, and kingship hereditary.


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[22] In the 17th century, Sweden became a European superpower, especially under King Gustav II Adolf.


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By 1658, Sweden controlled large parts of Denmark, present-day Finland, Inkerinland, Estonia, Latvia, and important cities in northern Germany.


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[23] Of the period between 1611—1721, Sweden was at war for 72 years.


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[22] In the 18th century, however, Sweden lost its superpower status.


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Russia became the new Nordic superpower when it defeated Sweden in the Great Northern War along with Denmark and Saxe-Poland.


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Sweden lost much of the territories it had taken over in the previous century.


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[22] In the Finnish War, which began in 1808, Russia seized Finland from Sweden, which was annexed to Russia on 17 September 1809 at the Peace of Hamina.


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In 1814, as a aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, the Swedish Crown received Norway from Denmark, but the countries were politically united only by a common ruler.


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[22] Sweden In the 20th and 21st century, Norway broke away from Swedish krona control in 1905.


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During World War I, Sweden was neutral, although the circumference powers occasionally boycotted the country because of the brisk trade with the German Empire.


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Also in World War II, Sweden was neutral.


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[22] In the early part of the war, Sweden engaged in brisk trade with Germany, granting German troops the right of transit.


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Sweden was officially neutral in the Cold War as well, but in reality working closely with the Western powers.


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[24] In September 1994, 501 Swedish passengers were killed in the accident of the passenger ship Estonia, which sunk in the Baltic Sea.


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In the entire crash, 852 passengers were killed.


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The country joined the European Union in 1995.


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Sweden rejected the euro in a consultative referendum in 2003.


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In 2008, the country ratified the Lisbon Treaty.


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[25] Two prominent politicians have been assassinated since World War II: Prime Minister Olof Palme was shot in 1986 and Foreign Minister Anna Lindh stabbed to death in 2003.


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[22] As a result of the Indian Ocean earthquake in December 2004, 543 Swedes died in Thailand.


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(Finns died 178.)


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Politics Sweden is a constitutional, parliamentary monarchy.


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Under Sweden's current state rule, which came into force in 1975, the king no longer exercises even formal executive power.


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The king performs representative duties belonging to the head of state, as well as chairing the Foreign Affairs Committee, but generally speaking, kingship is highly symbolic today and the supreme political power rests with the Prime Minister.


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Still, the king wields wide influence and most Swedes want to preserve the monarchy.


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The current king is Charles XVI Gustaf and the Prime Minister is Stefan Löfven.


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Legislative power in Sweden is exercised by a unicameral parliament (Riksdag,), executive powers by a government headed by the Prime Minister and jurisdiction by independent judicial courts.


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The House has 349 members.


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[1] Parliamentarianism has been in place since 1917 [26] and women's suffrage since 1919.


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[27] Sweden has a multi-party system.


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Sweden's Riksdag parties in 2018 include the following (number of Riksdag representatives in brackets): [28] Swedish Social Democratic Workers' Party (100) Moderate Coalition (70) Sweden Democrats (62) Centre Party (31) Left Party (28) Christian Democrats (22) Liberals (20) Environmental Party Greens (16) From 1970 to 1994, Riksdag elections were held every three years.


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[29] Today, elections are held every four years on the third Sunday of September.


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No later than 18 years of age or older are eligible to vote and be eligible to vote.


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Citizens living in Sweden from Nordic countries and EU countries are allowed to vote in municipal and country district elections.


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There are 29 constituencies in the country.


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There is a closed list election, but since 1998 there is also a partial personal election.


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With more than 8 per cent of the party's votes, in order of the number of votes in person, rises to the top of the list.


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In municipal and country district elections, the limit is 5% with a minimum of 100/50 votes.


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In the Riksdag elections, a party must cross the 4% vote threshold or 12% in one constituency to gain any delegates.


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In European elections, the limit is also 4 per cent.


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In county district elections, the vote threshold is 3%, but in municipal elections the threshold of votes is not in use.


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[30] Domestic politics Since World War II in power has mainly been the Social Democratic Party.


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Olof Palme, known as the builder of the welfare state and the “conscience” of world politics, came to its leadership and prime minister in 1969.


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From 1976, short-lived Popular Party and Centre Party governments alternated.


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Palme returned to power in 1982.


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He was murdered in 1986.


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Ingvar Carlsson became the next Prime Minister.


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At the time of the 1991 Depression, Carl Bildt became Prime Minister at the head of the centre-right Coalition, Liberals and Christian Democrats government.


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Carlsson returned as Prime Minister after the 1994 election.


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[31] He stepped down from the post in 1996, since which time Göran Persson was Prime Minister.


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In the 1998 elections, the Social Democrats lost support and allied themselves with the Left Party and the Environment Party.


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The government settlement continued from 2002.


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The Social Democrats suffered defeat in the 2006 Reichstag elections, and Fredrik Reinfeldt of the Coalition Party became Prime Minister.


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He continued as Prime Minister even after the 2010 Reichstag elections.


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[25] Sten Tolgfors, defence minister in the Reinfeldt government, resigned due to a stir caused by arms deals with Saudi Arabia in 2012.


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Karin Enström was succeeded in April 2012.


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[32] After the 2014 Reichstag elections, Stefan Löfven, chairman of the Social Democrats, became Prime Minister.


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The other party in government is the Environment Party.


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The government does not have a majority in the Riksdag, [33] and the government's first budget was not approved by the Riksdag.


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However, the governing parties reached an agreement with the centre-right parties and another election was avoided.


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The agreement is supposed to run until the 2022 elections and agreed that even after the next election, the bloc remaining in opposition would not topple a potential minority government.


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[34] [35] International relations Sweden has been a member of the United Nations since 1946, one year after the founding of the UN.


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Dag Hammarskjöld, a Swede, was Secretary-General of the UN from 1953 to 1961.


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[25] Sweden is not part of military federations, but in practice it has been closely cooperating with Western countries.


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For example, it has served as NATO's partner for peace in the Balkans and Afghanistan.


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[36] Sweden has been a member of the European Union since 1 January 1995.


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Swedes accepted membership of the European Union after a referendum in which 52.3 percent of Swedes supported joining the European Union.


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According to the Accession Treaty, Sweden must join the euro as a single currency when it meets the so-called EMU criteria.


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However, Swedes rejected the euro in a 2003 referendum.


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[25] The administrative division in Sweden is 21 counties (län), 20 land district municipalities (landsting) and 290 municipalities (kommun).


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The counties are part of the state government.


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Country district municipalities are regionally the same as counties, but have different functions than county governments.


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Land district municipalities take care of health care, for example.


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Only Gotland does not have its own land district municipality, but the Gotland Municipality is responsible for its functions.


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Every four years in Sweden, general elections (allmänna val) are held to elect Riksdag representatives, councillors of county districts and local councils.


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Traditionally Sweden is also divided into three main regions (landsdel, previously hufvuddel), which are Sveanmaa, Götaland and Norland.


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Sweden also has 25 provinces (landskap).


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The provinces and main regions today have no status whatsoever in Swedish administration.


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Economy Timber, hydropower and iron ore are the basis of Sweden's economy oriented to foreign trade.


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[1] However, the service sectors play an increasingly important role in the country's economy.


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In 2010, the service sector contributed 71.5 percent of GDP and employed 70.7 percent of the workforce.


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[1] The public sector accounts for a large part of the economy and employs around 30% of the workforce (2009).


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[37] The country's most significant natural resources are zinc, iron ore, copper, lead, silver, uranium and wood.


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The most significant export products are, in turn, machinery, motor vehicles, forestry products, iron, steel and chemicals.


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[1] Unemployment has been projected to fall from 8.4% in 2010 to 7.5% in 2011 and further to 6.7% in 2012.


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[38] Agriculture produces only 1.9% of GDP and employs one per cent of the labour force.


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It produces barley, wheat and sugar beet, as well as meat and milk.


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[1] Farms are concentrated in the southern and central parts of the country.


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With the restructuring, the size of the farm has increased to an average of 32 hectares, there are only 75000 holdings (less than a quarter of the 1950s) and many specialise.


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Forestry is also significant, and the country is the world's second largest exporter of softwood lumber, after Canada.


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[39] In 2010, the largest companies in Sweden by turnover were Volvo, Vattenfall, Ericsson, Skanska, SCA, H&M, TeliaSonera, Electrolux and ICA.


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[40] In the 2000s, many companies have become increasingly international ownership, which has also led to the discontinuation of many production facilities in Sweden.


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For example, Saab Automobile passed to General Motors and from there to Dutch-Russian ownership.


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[41] Volvo Cars already passed to the Chinese through Ford Motor Company.


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[42] On the other hand, Swedish companies have merged with neighbouring companies in the same sector to form larger and more competitive companies on an international scale, such as Stora Enso, TeliaSonera, Tietoenator and Nordea.


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[43] Sweden has 10 nuclear reactors for power generation, three at Forsmark in Uppsala near Stockholm, three at Oskarshamn (boiling water reactors) in Småland and four at Ringhals (three pressurized water reactors and one boiling reactor) in Halland near Gothenburg.


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The units at Barsebäck, located on the Øresund shore between Malmö and Helsingborg, were closed in 1999 and 2005.


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The relationship with nuclear power is problematic: a referendum in 1980 approved the abandonment of nuclear power by 2010, but the decision was reversed in 1997.


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[44] Nuclear power generates about 50% of electricity, i.e. 65 to 70 TWh per year.


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[45] [46] Overall traffic in Sweden is 249 aerodromes, of which 152 have a paved runway.


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The total length of the railways is 11633 kilometers.


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Notable ports include Brofjorden (in Lysekil), Gothenburg, Helsingborg, Luleå, Malmö, Stenungsund, Stockholm, Trelleborg and Visby.


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[1] Swedish public transport is well organised and receives plenty of support from the state.


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The same tickets will do on trains and buses.


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Trains are faster than buses, but especially in the north there are many places that cannot be reached by train.


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On the fastest X2000 trains, there is an additional charge.


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[47] Air traffic in Sweden is home to many international airports, of which Arlanda is the largest.


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It then comes Landvetter, Skavsta, Malmö Airport and Luleå Airport.


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These are used by many international airlines.


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Airline SAS is the biggest contributor to Swedish customer flights, but there are also several other airlines in Sweden that play a big role in Swedish customer flights, such as Lufthansa and Ryanair.


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There are many other options for longer inland flights alongside SAS, such as Malmö Aviation and low-cost airline Norwegian.


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The major airlines for short-haul flights today are Skyways and Nexjet, which also partner with SAS.


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Some foreign airlines such as Finnair, Air France, British Airways, Continental Airlines and Aeroflot also fly via Arlanda and, in some cases, Landvetter.


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Arlanda is also accessible by rail from the north and south on dense time slots.


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Population In 2017 the population of Sweden was 10,120,242 people.


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[2] Approximately 85% of the population live in built-up areas.


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[48] The vast majority of residents are Swedish-speaking, but there is also a significant Finnish and Me-speaking minority in Sweden: according to Ethnologue, the former number around 201000 and 30000 of the latter.


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[49] Ethnically, there are approximately 14600 Sami people in total [49], not all of whom speak Sami languages.


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As a result of immigration, 1,877,050 people, or 18.5%, were foreign-born and 2,439,007 people, or 24.1%, were foreign-born and 2,439,007 people, or 24.1%, were of foreign background.


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3,193,089, or 32% of the population, at least one of the parents had been born abroad.


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The most common countries of origin for migrants in 2017 were Syria (1.70%), Finland (1.49%), Iraq (1.39%), Poland (0.90%), Iran (0.73%) and Somalia (0.66%).


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Municipalities with over 100,000 inhabitants Languages Sweden mainly speak Swedish, which has been defined by legislation in 2009 as both the main language and official language of the country.


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The Swedish language has a lot of differing dialects.


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[52] The spelling of the common language has been influenced by a tradition beginning in the 15th century at Vadstena Monastery.


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The need for unification of spoken language came with the spread of the national school, and the language of the neighbourhood of Stockholm was popularised at that time.


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[53] The largest minority language is Finnish.


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As a result of the European Union Directive, the status of five minority languages was enshrined in law in 1999, including Sami, Meänkieli (Finnish dialect), Finnish, Romani language and Yiddish.


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These languages have official status in government offices, court, kindergartens and nursing homes on the territory of certain municipalities.


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The Sámi language has official status in the municipalities of Arjeplog, Jällivaara, Jokimuka and Kiruna.


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Finnish and Meänlanguage are official in the municipalities of Jällivaara, Haparanda, Kiruna, Pajala and Ylitornio.


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[54] In 2010, a renewed Language Act brought Finnish as a minority language to 18 municipalities in central and southern Sweden, and in February 2011 to five more municipalities.


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[55] Romani and Yiddish have status as historical minority languages, and the Swedish government has a certain obligation to support them.


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Sweden has a lot of minority languages as a result of high immigration.


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[54] Religion 59.3% of Swedes belonged to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Sweden at the end of 2017.


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The church's population share, as well as child baptisms, has been in constant decline of more than a percentage point.


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In 2017, 42.4 percent of children were baptized.


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[56] In a 2010 Eurobarometer poll, 18% of Swedes stated that they believed in God, 45% stated that they believed in some superior power, and 34% stated that they did not believe in any of these.


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[57] According to a 2007 survey, a third of Swedes consider themselves to be Christian.


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[58] According to a 2010 study, only 15% of members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Sweden believe in Jesus.


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[59] In ten years, the six largest Swedish Free Churches have lost 70000 members, which is 15% of their member base.


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[60] Sweden had an estimated population of about 450000 Muslims in 2008 of whom a quarter were religious.


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[61] In 2010, there were 110,000 Muslims practising the faith in Sweden, compared to 90,000 in 2000.


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[60] According to some studies, only 5% of Muslims in Sweden practice their faith in such a way that they always attend Friday prayers and pray five times a day, as the Quran tells them to do.


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[62] The majority of Muslims in Sweden are Sunni.


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Education Schooling is free and compulsory for nine years of primary school, ages 7—16, but almost all six-year-olds attend preschool.


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After primary school, those who take the level exam in Swedish, English and mathematics will be admitted to secondary school.


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In practice, most of the baby boomers start high school.


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Alongside municipal primary schools, private schools are available, attended by nine per cent of primary school students and 20 per cent of secondary school students.


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Studying in them is free of charge.


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[63] Culture In 1928 Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson described Swedish with the word folk home ().


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It was a metaphor for the welfare state until the end of the century.


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The concept involved a number of social institutions: kindergartens, retirement homes, hospitals, municipal music colleges, trade unions, and May Day parades.


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Another set of national symbols relates to Sweden's rural past: stage dances, midsummer salko, Christmas feasts.


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Industrialization and urbanization took place in the country in the late s.


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[64] The diet of Swedes today includes international elements: pizza, pasta and Chinese cuisine.


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Traditional home cooking, husmankost, consists of potato, meat or fish and sauce.


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[64] Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor, chemist and engineer of dynamite, ordered his estate in his will to the foundation, which has been handing out Nobel prizes since 1901 for pioneering work in the fields of physics, chemistry, literature, peace, medicine and economics.


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[65] Eight nobels in literature have entered Sweden.


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Selma Lagerlöf (1909), Verner von Heidenstam (1916), Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1931), Pär Lagerkvist (1951), Nelly Sachs (1966), Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson (1974), and Tomas Tranströmer (2011) [66] August Strindberg's plays, Astrid Lindgrenberg I and Selma Lagerlof children's books, as well as poems by Harry Martinson, have been translated into many languages.


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Especially in the 21st century, Swedish detective writers such as Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell have also risen to world fame.


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[67] Carl Michael Bellman or Dan Andersson has sometimes been referred to as Sweden's national poet.


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Evert Taube continued the tradition as a songwriter.


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In the Swedish art world, Anders Zorn is known for his rustic landscapes and nudes and Carl Larsson for his home-themed idyllic paintings.


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[68] The golden age of Swedish architecture was the 1920s, with a return to style in later decades.


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[69] Functionalism came to Scandinavia at the Stockholm World's Fair 1930, with Gunnar Asplund as chief designer.


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[70] The People's Home was supposed to produce affordable functional housing for all.


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For the next forty years, the main task of Swedish architects was the design of apartments.


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Flat roofs and large windows are not practical in the northern climate and anyway the purest functionalism was softened by national influences.


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The annex to the Gothenburg Town Hall in Asplund is a pure-farmed example from that period.


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[71] Asplund's other well-known works include Stockholm City Library and Skogskyrkogården.


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[72] Swedish cinema was successful early on.


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Actors Greta Garbo and Ingrid Bergman and director Ingmar Bergman enjoyed success in the 20th century.


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[68] Lasse Hallström, Roy Andersson and Lukas Moodysson already belong to the next generation.


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[73] Sweden is the second most successful country in the Eurovision Song Contest with six wins. [74].


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Media Swedish electronic media was long dominated by a licence-fee-funded public service run by Sveriges Television, or SVT.


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Its main competitor is the commercial TV4, founded in 1992.


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The country switched to digital television early on; analog broadcasting was discontinued in 2007.


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Many households have a cable or satellite receiver.


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The first commercial radio stations started in 1993 and there are over a hundred of them today.


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[75] Dagens Nyheter is Sweden's largest morning newspaper.


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Sweden's main tabloids are Aftonbladet, founded in 1830, as well as Expressen, founded in 1944.


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Ordering newspapers home is common, and Swedes are among the world's most diligent newspaper readers.


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Six daily newspapers appear in the country: Aftonbladet in Stockholm, Dagens Nyheter, Expressen and Svenska Dagbladet, Gothenburg Göteborgs-Posten and in Malmö Sydsvenska Dagbladet.


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[75] World Heritage Sites on the UNESCO World Heritage List includes 13 cultural sites from Sweden, one natural site namely the Höga Kusten/Kärku archipelago, shared with Finland and one “mixed site”, Laponia.


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Cultural sites are the petroglyphs of Tanum from the Bronze Age, the diverse agricultural landscape of South Öland which has been inhabited since the prehistoric period, Birka and Hovgården from the Viking Age, the Great Copper Mountain mining area in Falun since the 13th century, the Hanseatic town of Visby, Gammelstad the wooden houses of the church village and the 15th century church in Luleå, the 17th-century market leader Engelsberg steelworks, the port town of Karlskrona from the 17th century, the royal estate of Drottningholm from the 18th century, Skogskyrkogården from the early 20th century and the Grimeton radio station from the 1920s.


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[76] Sports Sweden is a very successful country in both summer and winter sports, with both Sweden having good training conditions.


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The country has enjoyed international success, particularly in football, hockey, golf, skiing, athletics and tennis.


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[77] In the Olympic Games Sweden has participated every time, with the exception of the St. Louis Games in 1904.


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[78] Sweden has hosted the Summer Olympics once, when they were held in 1912 in Stockholm.


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[79] In addition, equestrian competitions at the 1956 Summer Olympics were competed in Stockholm due to Australian quarantine laws.


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All other species were competed in Melbourne.


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Sweden has also hosted events such as the 1958 World Football Championships, the 1992 European Championships, the 1995 World Championships in Athletics, and several times the World Championships in Ski and Ice Hockey.


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[80] Football is the most popular sport in Sweden.


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The national football team has won gold at the 1948 Olympics, silver at the World Championships in 1958, and bronze at the World Championships in 1950 and World Championships in 1994.


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[81] The national team has played in the World Cup final tournament 11 times.


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In November 2011, it was ranked 18th in Fifa's Rankig.


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[82] The most famous players are Olympic champions Gunnar Gren, Gunnar Nordahl, who is the top goalscorer of Italian top club AC Milan through the time, and Nils Liedholm, along with Tomas Brolin, Thomas Ravelli and Zlatan Ibrahimović.


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[83] [84] The Swedish national ice hockey team, Tre Kronor, has won two Olympic gold medals and nine world titles.


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[85] [86] The Swedish national ice ball team is one of the most traditional and successful national teams of the time.


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The Swedish floorball national team has won seven world titles and two World Championship silvers.


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Sweden is also the most successful country at the Handball Men's World and European Championships.


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Brännboll is a close relative game of baseball and baseball popular in Sweden and is mostly practiced at amateur level in parks and has no actual organised activities.


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In addition to ice hockey, many other winter sports are popular.


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The 90 km Vaasa skiing event held annually is the world's largest skiing event.


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[84] Well-known Swedish cross-country skiers include four-time Olympic champion Gunde Svan and Sixten Jernberg, who won nine Olympic medals.


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[84] [87] Other successful winter athletes include alpine skiers Ingemar Stenmark and Anja Pärson and Gillis Grafström, who developed figure skating.


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[79] [87] Tennis players Bjorn Borg, Mats Wilander and Stefan Edberg are among the greatest ever in the sport.


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Borg won 11 Grand Slam tournaments, Wilander 7 and Edberg 6.


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[77] The most successful golfer is Annika Sörenstam.


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[84] Famous athletics include Carolina Klüft, Patrik Sjöberg and Stefan Holm.


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At the Summer Olympics, shooter Alfred Swahn (9 medals) and paddler Gert Fredriksson (8 medals) have been won by shooter Alfred Swahn (9 medals).


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[88] Music from the Swedish music scene is known by many light music stars and ensembles, among them Abba, Roxette and The Cardigans.


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Known from the classical music circuit are Jenny Lind and Jussi Björling.


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Classical singers of the newer knee have included Birgit Nilsson, Anne-Sofie von Otter and Nikolai Gedda.


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[68] The best known composers include Wilhelm Stenhammar, Hugo Alfvén and Kurt Atterberg, as well as contemporary composers Anders Hillborg.


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The heavy metal band Sabaton is also from Sweden.


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Seleucus I Nikator (, “Winner”, circa 358—281 BCE.)


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was a Macedonian soldier, an officer of Alexander the Great, and one of the diadoks.


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Seleucus eventually became king of Persia.


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He was the founder of the ruler family of the Seleucids.


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Seleukos was appointed satrap of Babylon upon Alexander's death in 323 BCE.


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Antigonos I expelled Seleucus from Babylon, but he was able to return with Ptolemy's support in 312 BCE.


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Seleukos took over Persia and Media, among others.


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He entered into an alliance with Indian Chandragupta Maurya.


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Antigonos was defeated by Seleukos at the Battle of Ipsos in 301 BCE.


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and at the Battle of Korupedion of Lysimakhus in 281 BCE.


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Shortly thereafter, he was assassinated by Ptolemy Keraunos.


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Seleucus was succeeded by his son Antiokhos I.


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[1] Seleukos founded several cities, among them Antioch and Seleukeia.


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[2] Childhood Seleucus's father was Antiochus, who was, according to historian Junianus Justinus, a warlord of the Macedonian king Philip II.


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Justinus uses Antiochus the title dux, 'chief'.


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However, Antiokho is not mentioned in any other sources, and nothing is known about his career under Philip.


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Antiokhos was possibly a member of one of the former princely lineages of Upper Macedonia.


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In his teens, Seleukos was chosen as the king's servant (paides).


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All vesas of the supreme lineages served the king in these positions.


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As adults, they served as army officers.


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Seleucus's mother was named Laodike, but little else is known about her.


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Seleukos later named towns after his father and mother.


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[3] There is some ambiguity about the year of birth of Seleucus.


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Justinus counted the year of his birth as 358 BCE, for according to him Seleucus was 77 years old at the Battle of Korupedion.


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According to Appianus, Seleukos was 73 years old at the time, making his birth year 354 BCE.


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Eusebios, on the other hand, mentions Seleucus as age 75 years.


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The year of his birth would thus be 356 BCE, so Seleucus would be the same age as Alexander the Great.


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This is probably Seleucus's own propaganda, the purpose of which is to highlight Seleukos as an alternative to Alexander.


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[4] Seleukos was born in Europos, which was located in the north of Macedonia.


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Only one year before the birth of Seleucus — if 358 BCE.


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is the year of his birth — the Paionians invaded the area.


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The Paionians were defeated by Pilippos, and in a few years the Paionians were completely under Macedonian rule.


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[5] Legends similar to those of Alexander the Great were told about Seleucus.


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Laodike was reported to have told his son, before he went on a Persian war expedition with Alexander, that his real father would have been the god Apollon.


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God had left Laodike as a gift a ring with the image of the anchor.


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Seleucus had an anchor shaped mole.


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Seleucus's sons and grandsons were also reported to have had such signs.


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There was a similar story being told about Alexander.


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Probably Seleukos was trying to present himself as Alexander's natural successor and had therefore come up with the story himself.


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[3] John Malalas reports that Seleucus had one sister Didymeia, who again had two sons Nikanor and Nicomedes.


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The boys are probably fictional though.


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Didymeia perhaps refers to the oracle of Didyman Apollon, which was located near Miletos.


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It has also been suggested that Ptolemy's son of Seleucus (who is not the same person as Ptolemy the son of Lagos who later became king of Egypt) would have been Seleucus's uncle.


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[6] Alexander's officer during the Persian War Expedition, Seleukos was appointed commander of the Royal Department of Hypaspists, or agema.


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[7] The appointment took place shortly before the Battle of the Hydaspes River.


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Seleucus has been claimed to have belonged to the army's high command, but this is probably not the case.


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It is reported that Alexander crossed Hydaspe by ship, accompanied also by Perdikkas, Ptolemy, Lysimakhos, as well as Seleukos, who nevertheless was on the ship as commander of the hypaspists.


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Some of the hypaspoints travelled on the same ship.


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At the Battle of Hydaspee, Seleukos led his forces against the war elephants of the Indian king Poros.


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Seleucus probably played no part in the planning of the battle, and he is not mentioned later in any important role.


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For example, Krateros, Hephaestion, Peithon and Leonnatos were all given to command large numbers of troops for separate missions.


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[8] The hypaspists of Seleucus always accompanied Alexander and participated in the takeover of the arm of the Indus, battles with the Model tribe, and the crossing of the Gedrosian desert.


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[9] At a wedding in Susa, Seleukos married Apama, the daughter of Spitamene, the Persian.


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Alexander the Great himself married Dareios III's daughter, and many other Macedonians took Persian women as their wives.


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Spitamenes had fought Alexander for a long time to come after Dareios had died.


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Alexander apparently trusted Seleucus completely because he gave him Apama as his wife.


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The union of Seleucus and Apama was the only one of the marriages in Susa that lasted.


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Apparently it was a matter of real affection, since Seleucus did not have much political advantage from a Persian wife at the time.


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Apama soon bore, perhaps in 324 BC, to Seleucus the son of Antiochos.


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John Malalas mentions two more daughters whose existence is uncertain.


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[10] Seleukos is mentioned in ancient sources three times before Alexander's death.


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He was involved in sailing outside Babylon and, along with Alexander, took part in the feasts of Medeios, a Thessalian, after which Alexander fell ill.


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He is also reported to have slept in the temple of the god Sarapis before Alexander died.


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A sailing-related story tells that Alexander's diadem, a symbol of kingship, flew in a gust of wind to the reed, and Seleukos swam to retrieve it.


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To keep the diadem dry, Seleukos tied it to his own head.


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This, of course, foreshadowed the future kingship of Seleucus.


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A similar story was also told about Lysimakhos.


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It must have been propaganda.


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Seleucus's participation in Medeios celebrations may be true.


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According to the story, Seleukos slept in the temple to Sarapi with Peithon, Attalos, Menida, Demophon, Peuke, and Cleomene, hoping the god would help Alexander heal.


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This story, too, must have been revoked afterwards, since the cult of Sarapii is thought to have been later retracted.


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[11] Perdikka's lieutenant Alexander the Great died in Babylon on 10 June 323 BC.


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without a successor.


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Among his officers, Perdikkas rose to monarch, while Alexander's less-minded half-brother Arridaios, monarch-named Philip III, was chosen as the new king.


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Soon, Alexander's unborn child was also appointed to succeed his father.


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Alexander's officers divided the kingdom between themselves.


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Arrianos cites Seleucus as one of the backers of Perdikkas during the stages following Alexander's death.


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Perdikkas was also supported by a number of notable men, including Ptolemy, Leonnatos, Lysimahos, Peithon and Eumenes.


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Seleukos was appointed commander of the comrade cavalry, or hetairoi, in reality he was the most important officer of the Perdikka.


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[12] However, Perdikkah's power depended on whether he could hold together the vast kingdom of Alexander and whether he would make the satraps obey the kings, namely themselves.


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[11] However, Perdikkas drifted into war with the other diadoques.


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He tried, among other things, to get Alexander's sister Cleopatra to marry him.


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The First Diadoc War began shortly after Perdikkas sent Alexander's body to be buried in Macedonia.


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Ptolemy hijacked the body and took it to Alexandria.


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Perdikkas went to Egypt to discipline Ptolemy, who secretly contacted Perdika with officers, Peithon, the satrap of Media, and Antigenes, the commander of the Argyraspids.


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The officers formed a conspiracy against Perdikka.


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Seleukos is also mentioned as a member of the conspiracy in the work of Cornelius Nepos.


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However, it is uncertain whether Seleukos actually participated in the secret plot.


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At least he was spared Perdika's fate.


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[13] After the assassination of Perdikkas, it was clear to Seleucus that in the future it was better to become a satrap of a province than to serve in the army of kings.


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[14] After the death of the Babylonian satrap Perdikah, the most influential person in the kingdom was Antipatros.


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Opponents of Perdikka met at Triparadisos in 321 BCE.


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There, Alexander's kingdom was redistributed.


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[15] In Triparadisos, the soldiers were little to assassinate Antipatros in their rebellion.


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It was prevented only by the intervention of Seleucus and Antigonos.


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[16] Seleukos, for betraying Perdika, received the rich province of Babylon as his reward.


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The prestige of Seleucus had risen after Perdikas's death.


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The designation as the satrap of Babylon was perhaps the idea of Antipatros.


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Seleukos was surrounded in Babylonia by Peukestas, the satrap of Persis, the new satrap of Susiana was Antigenes and the Median Peithon.


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Babylonia was one of the richest provinces in the kingdom, but militarily it was irrelevant.


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Antipatros's idea was apparently to prevent the rulers of the eastern provinces from becoming too mighty.


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[15] Perdikkas had appointed a certain Dokimos as the satrap of Babylon before his death, and he did not intend to give Babylonia to Seleucus with favour.


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There is not much information about the result of Seleucus into Babylon.


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According to one Babylonian chronicle, some important building was destroyed in the city around that time, apparently in the summer or autumn of 320 BCE.


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According to a Babylonian plotline inscription, Seleukos arrived in Babylon in October or November 320 BCE.


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Dokimos, despite everything, managed to escape.


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Meanwhile, Peithon, the satrap of Media, murdered the Parthian satrap Philip and installed his brother Eudamos in his place.


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In the West, again, Antigonos and Eumenes clashed.


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Eumenes were, like Peitho and Seleukoski, former supporters of Perdikka.


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Seleucus's main problem, however, was Babylonia itself.


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The locals had risen up against Arkhon and supported Dokimos.


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The clergy of Babylon also had great power.


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Babylonia was also home to a large number of Macedonian and Greek veterans inhabited there by Alexander.


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Seleukos of the clergy was won over in the same way as Alexander, the greatest monetary gift or ransom.


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[17] The Second Diadoc War after the death of Antipatros in 319 BC.


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The Median satrap Peithon began to expand his power, but was defeated by the other satraps in the region, and Peithon fled to Meedia.


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At the same time, Antigonos had forced Eumene to retreat from Cilicia to Mesopotamia.


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The situation was difficult for Seleucus.


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Eumenes was north of Babylon with his army, Antigonos with his hobbies with an even larger army, and Peithon in the Medic.


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Peithon's opponents had meanwhile gathered at Susiana.


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[18] Peithon arrived at Seleucus in the autumn or winter of 317 BCE.


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Peithon had only a knick-off of his former troops left, and Seleucus apparently had even fewer soldiers.


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Eumenes decided to march on Susa in the spring of 316 BC.


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The satraps who were at Susa had apparently accepted Eumenee's claims that he was fighting in the name of a legitimate ruler family against Antigonos.


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Eumenes marched his army 300 stadia (55km) away from Babylon and attempted to cross the Tigris.


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Seleucus was forced to act, and he sent two trireems and other smaller ships to prevent the crossing.


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Seleukos also tried to persuade Alexander's Argyraspids, which he had led in India, to abandon Eumenee, but to no avail.


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Seleukos also sent messages to Antigonos.


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Seleucus apparently had no intention of blocking Eumenes, for he had far too few troops to do so.


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Next, the Seleukos opened the river's flood ramparts.


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Water surrounded Eumenee's camp, but this got his troops over because there were enough ships.


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[19] In the spring of 316 BC


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Seleukos and Peithon joined Antigonos, who followed Eumene in pursuit of Susa.


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From Susa, however, Antigonos soon left for the Medic, from where he may have threatened the eastern provinces.


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Antigonos left Seleucus with a small force to prevent Eumene from reaching back to the Mediterranean.


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Antigonos defeated Eumenee in the Battle of Gabiene and allowed him to be executed.


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Events during the Second Diadoque War show how Seleukos was prepared to wait for an opportune moment.


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Fighting and executions were not his style.


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[20] On the escape to Egypt Antigonos wintered in the Medic, whose satrap Peithon once again served as his satrap.


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Peithon's lust for power had grown again, and he tried to win some of Antigonos' army on his side.


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However, Antigonos got wind of the matter and executed Peithon.


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Thereafter, Antigonos supplanted his Peuke as the satrap of Persis.


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[21] In the summer of 315 BC.


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Antigonos arrived in Babylon, where he was received with open arms by Seleucus.


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However, the intervals between the Lords soon grew cold.


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Seleukos punished one of Antigonos' officers without asking Antigonos for permission.


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Antigonos became angry and ordered Seleucus to present the revenues of his province to him.


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Seleukos refused.


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[22] However, he feared Antigonos so much that he fled to Egypt with only 50 horsemen.


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The “Chaldean astrologers” are reported to have predicted to Antigonos that Seleucus would become Lord of Asia in the future and that he would kill Antigonos.


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Hearing this, Antigonos sent soldiers after Seleucus, but he initially fled to Mesopotamia and thence to Syria.


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Antigonos executed Blitor, the new satrap of Mesopotamia, who had helped from Seleuko.


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The authenticity of the prophecy received by Antigonos has been debated.


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What speaks for authenticity is the fact that the clergy of Babylon apparently objected to Seleukos.


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[23] As Seleucus fled Macedonia, new upheavals occurred.


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Kassandros murdered King Philip III, his wife Eurydike, and Alexander the Great's mother to Olympia.


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Alone king thus became Alexander IV, who was still a mere child and under the rule of Kassandros.


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[24] After reaching Egypt, Admiral of Ptolemy, Seleukos sent his friends to Greece to inform Kassandros and Lysimakhus, ruler of Thrace, of Antigonos' actions.


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Antigonos was now the most powerful of the diadoks, and others soon allied against him.


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The allies sent Antigonos a proposal, which he was forced to refuse.


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Among other things, the allies demanded that Seleukos be allowed to return to Babylonia.


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Antigonos refused and moved on to Syria, from where he planned to attack Ptolemy in the spring of 314 BCE.


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[25] Seleukos was allowed to serve as admiral of Ptolemy.


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While Antigonos began his siege of Tyre [26] [27] Antigonos entered into an alliance with Rhodes.


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Rhodos was located at a strategically important location, and its fleet was able to prevent the allies from joining forces.


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Therefore, Ptolemy sent Seleucus with a hundred ships to the Aegean Sea.


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The fleet was too small to subdue Rhodo, but large enough to persuade Asanros, the satrap of Kaaria, to join Ptolemy.


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Seleukos took over the town of Erythrai.


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The reason for that is not clear.


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Maybe it was just a show of force.


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However, Antigonos' nephew Ptolemy arrived on the scene and attacked Asandros.


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Seleukos then returned to Cyprus, where Ptolemy sent his brother Menelaus, 10,000 mercenaries and a hundred ships.


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Seleukos and Menelaus began the siege of Kition.


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Antigonos thereafter sent most of his fleet to the Aegean Sea and his army to Lesser Asia.


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Ptolemy was given an opportunity for it to invade Syria, where he defeated Antigonos' son Demetrios in the Battle of Gaza.


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Seleukos was probably involved in the battle.


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The battle fell Peithon son of Agenor, whom Antigonos had appointed satrap of Babylon after Seleucus.


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Peithon's death opened the way back to Babylon for Seleucus.


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[28] Seleukos seemed to have prepared his return to Babylon well.


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After the Battle of Gaza, Demetrios retreated to Tripoli, while Ptolemy advanced as far as Sidon.


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Ptolemy gave Seleucus an infantry of 800 men and cavalry of 200 men.


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He was also accompanied by his friends, perhaps the same 50, who fled with him from Babylon.


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Along the way, Seleukos recruited soldiers from among the settlers of the settlements.


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In the end, he had about 3,000 soldiers.


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In Babylon, Peithon's commander, Difilos, barricaded himself in the town's castle.


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Seleukos overran Babylon's rivakast, and the castle was soon overrun as well.


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Seleucus's friends, who had remained in the city when he fled, were released.


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[29] Victory conquest of the Eastern Provinces Quite soon the supporters of Antigonos attempted to recapture Babylon.


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Nikanor was the new satrap of Media and strategos of the eastern provinces.


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Nikanor's army consisted of 17,000 soldiers, and also included Euagoras, the satrap of Aria.


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It was clear that Seleukos would not be able to defeat this army in conventional combat.


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Seleukos hid his troops in the swamps surrounding the spot where Nikanor planned to cross the Tigris.


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The forces of Seleucus made a nightly surprise attack.


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Euagoras fell early in the battle, and Nikanor found himself separated from his troops.


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Knowledge of Evagora's death spread among the troops, and Nikanor's soldiers surrendered en masse.


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Almost everyone agreed to move onto the Seleucus payroll.


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Nikanor escaped with only a few men.


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[30] Although Seleucus now had 20,000 soldiers, this was not enough to fight Antigonos' forces.


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He also did not know when Antigonos would counterattack, but he knew that at least two eastern provinces did not have a satrap at that moment.


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Also, most of his troops were from these provinces.


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Some of the troops at Evagora were even Persians.


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Perhaps some of the troops were former soldiers of Eumenee who, for a reason, hated Antigonos.


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Seleukos decided to take advantage of the situation.


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[30] Seleukos allowed to spread different stories.


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According to one story, in a dream he would have seen Alexander the Great, who had stood beside him.


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The same trick had previously been used by Eumenes.


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Antigonos, who had been in Asia Minor while Seleukos had been in the East to wage war with Alexander, was similarly unable to use Alexander in his propaganda.


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Seleukos also had the ability to win the confidence of the Macedonians on his side.


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Unlike Eumenes, he was himself Macedonian.


Question: Where was Seleucus I Nicator born?

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[31] After regaining himself as lord of Babylon, Seleucus began to act more radically.


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He took over Media and Susiana in a short time.


Question: Where was Seleucus I Nicator born?

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Diodoros the Sicilian adds that Seleukos also occupied “other nearby territories”.


Question: Where was Seleucus I Nicator born?

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These were perhaps Persis, Aria and probably Parthia as well.


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Bactria and Sogdiana were not touched by Seleukos.


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Their satrap, Stasanor, had remained outside the earlier clashes.


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After the defeat of Nikanor's army, there was no army in the east capable of stopping Seleucus.


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It is uncertain how Seleukos organized the administration of the provinces he had taken over.


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The satrap of several provinces was dead.


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In principle, Polyperkhon was still the successor of Antipatros and the official ruler of the Kingdom of Macedonia, who legally had to appoint satraps.


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However, Polyperkhon was allied with Antipatros and was therefore an enemy of Seleucus.


Question: Where was Seleucus I Nicator born?

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[32] Antigonos' counter-attack, Antigonos sent his son Demetrios with 15000 infantry and 4000 cavalry to recapture Babylon.


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Apparently he set a deadline for Demetrios, when he expired, he had to return to Syria.


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Antigonos thought that Seleucus ruled only Babylonia.


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Perhaps Nikanor had not told Antigonos that Seleucus now had at least 20,000 soldiers.


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Perhaps the scale of Nikanor's defeat had not yet fully become clear to everyone.


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Apparently Antigonos did not yet know Seleucus had taken over much of the eastern provinces.


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Clearly Antigonos also did not care much about the eastern parts of the kingdom.


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[33] When Demetrios arrived in Babylon, Seleucus was somewhere to the east.


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Seleukos had left Patroklee in Babylon to defend the city.


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Babylon was defended in an unusual way: there were two firm fortresses in the city, where Seleukos had left strong garrisons.


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The entire population of the town was moved out of the city, and they were resettled in surrounding areas, as far as Susa.


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The environment of Babylon, with its cities, swamps, canals and rivers, was excellent for defence.


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Demetrios' forces began besieging the forts of Babylon, and one of them was retaken.


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The second fort proved more difficult, and Demetrios left his friend Arkhelaus to continue the siege.


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Demetrios then left for the west and left in Babylon 5,000 infantry and 1000 cavalry.


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No mention of the fate of Demetrios' troops has remained in ancient sources.


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Seleukos may have been forced to retake Babylon from the forces of Archhelaus.


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[34] Babylonian War In 311 BC


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Antigonos made peace with Kassandros, Lysimachus and Ptolemy.


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Antigonos thus gained free rein against Seleukos.


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[35] Antigonos' army comprised at least 80,000 soldiers.


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Even if Antigonos had left half his troops to the west, he would have had superiority against Seleukos.


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The Seleukos may have received help from the Kossaians, descendants of the ancient Cassites.


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Antigonos had ravaged their territories in the war against Eumenes.


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Seleukos may also have recruited some of the forces of Arkhelaus.


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When Antigonos finally invaded Babylon, the army of Seleucus was larger than before.


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Many of the soldiers bore a grudge against Antigono, and the people of the area were also hostile to him.


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Because of this, Seleucus did not have to sacrifice some of his troops to garrisons that would keep the locals in line.


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[36] Very little information has survived to the present day about the struggle between Antigonos and Seleucus.


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A very dashed description of the war has been left in the Babylonian chronicle.


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Years 310 BC.


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the description in question has disappeared altogether.


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Apparently Antigonos took over Babylon.


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Antigonos was unable to concentrate on the war because Ptolemy made a surprising attack on Cilicia, among others.


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[36] It is known that Seleukos received at least one decisive victory over Antigonos.


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Of this battle, only a mention has remained in the Strategemata of Polyainos, in which a war plot used by various warlords has been assembled.


Question: Where was Seleucus I Nicator born?

Seleucus I Nikator

According to Polyainus, the forces of Seleucus and Antigonos fought, but as evening arrived, the battle was still unresolved, with both sides stating that it was best to continue fighting the next day.


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Antigonos' troops stayed overnight without their equipment.


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Seleukos ordered his soldiers to sleep and eat their breakfast in combat formation.


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Shortly before dawn, the forces of Seleucus attacked Antigonos' forces, who were without their weapons and in disarray.


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Thus Antigonos' forces were easily defeated.