As the commercial capital of the Netherlands and one of the top financial centres in Europe, Amsterdam is considered an alpha world city by the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) study group. The city is also the cultural capital of the Netherlands.hips sailed from Amsterdam to the Baltic Sea, North America, and Africa, as well as present-day Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, and Brazil, forming the basis of a worldwide trading network. Amsterdam's merchants had the largest share in both the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch West India Company.
1 Sweden is the 3rd largest EU country in land area, after France and Spain. 2  Sweden is one of the homelands of the Germanic ethnicity and culture. 3  The Goths, the Suevirs and the Norses (Vikings) all trace their origin back to Sweden (as well as Norway and Denmark for the latter).
The name of Sweden in modern Swedish is Sverige. Svea Rike is the old name, used several centuries ago. Svea lives on, though, in the name of the central region of Sweden: Svealand.The southern region is called Goetaland gÃ¶taland and the Northern. norrlandvea was originally (during the 1600-1700's) ONLY used as a term for Sweden. It wasn't until the poet Tegner tegnÃ¨r published his Poem svea in 1817 that it started getting used as a given. -- Name Anonymous user/1/15. 2007 the name Of sweden in Modern swedish Is. sverige