Talk:Swedish overseas colonies

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These kind of articles are quite many by now, and a merge may be warranted?

1. Possessions of Sweden
2. Swedish colonial empire
3. Languages of the United States#Swedish
4. New Sweden
5. Swedish colonization of the Americas
6. Swedish Empire
7. Swedish emigration to North America
8. Dominions of Sweden

If these articles all deal with different issues, then I'm not going to push the issue. Give your opinions. // Fred-Chess 17:01, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

• I don't really understand the point of the Possessions of Sweden article. However the others aren't the same. The Swedish colonial empire, did not co-exist with the Swedish empire, Swedish emigration is significant in itself especially in Minnisotan history. Swedish in the UNited STates is just part of a bigger article alread so a merge isn't necessary or viable. Dominions of Sweden deals with European dominions. I would suggest simply merging Possessions of Sweden into the others and redirecting it to Dominions of Sweden. Oh and Swedish colonization of the Americas is part of a series and could be expanded so I would leave it. Finally New Sweden is about a specific colony similar to the New Netherlands and New Amsterdam. While a lot of this could be combined into one big good article that would take an extraordinary amount of work and more than likely information would instead be lost. Falphin 22:39, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

Swedish colonial empire

Is it really correct to call the Swedish colonial possesions an "empire"? By the way, what is the definition of an empire?Aaker 14:33, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Hello, hopefully I'm not too late. Oxford's definition an empire is "an extensive group of states or countries ruled over by a single monarch, an oligarchy, or a sovereign state." I'm not sure if these colonies are "extensive" enough for it to be classified as one, but I would say yes, especially with Finland in hand, Sweden was somewhat of an empire. Hugo Rydman (talk) 15:52, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

Map

Should we use this map? I think we should. Swedish pirate (talk) 18:07, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Swedish Empire and its colonies at different times in history

I think it's bad because it features present day borders.Aaker (talk) 22:25, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

It's a bit misleading. The whole coast of Ghana and Togo has never been under Swedish rule as the map shows. It's better to make a dot on the map like this:[1] since the Swedish colony was limited to a few forts. Shellwood (talk) 15:10, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

This article has only two refrences

Sources are despirately needed for this article. Not much more to be said. Superpig05 (talk) 23:18, 3 September 2023 (UTC)

You could start by adding some. TylerBurden (talk) 16:07, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

Well and you can do that too Superpig05 (talk) 15:54, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

Do you know of any good ones? TylerBurden (talk) 17:31, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

Sweden in Guayana

The article on Guayana Essequiba https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guayana_Esequiba claims there was a Swedish colonization attempt in the 1730's, stopped by the Spanish. Never heard of it, but the article does give a couple of sources, if some completist wants to chase them and possibly add to the Empire here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.223.107.35 (talk) 10:47, 5 December 2023 (UTC)