Talk:Swedish overseas colonies

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

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Swedish colonial empire[edit]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Map[edit]

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

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

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)[reply]

This article has only two refrences[edit]

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

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

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

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

Sweden in Guayana[edit]

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)[reply]