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
 * 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)


 * 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: 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)