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Kalmarunionen
(in Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish)
Kalmarin unioni
(in Finnish)
Kalmarsambandið
(in Icelandic)
Kalmar unioni
(in Greenlandic)
Kalmarsamveldið
(in Faroese)
Unio Calmariensis
(in Latin)
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Arms of Eric of Pomerania
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Status
| Personal union
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Capital
| Copenhagen
(from 1443)
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Common languages
| Official use:
Middle Danish
,
Old Swedish
,
Renaissance Latin
Also spoken:
Middle Low German
,
Finnish
,
Karelian
,
Middle Norwegian
,
Middle Icelandic
,
Norn
,
Sami languages
,
Greenlandic
Greenlandic Norse
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Religion
| Roman Catholicism
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Government
| Personal union
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Regent
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? 1387?1412
a
| Eric of Pomerania
(first)
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? 1524?33
| Christian II
(last)
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Legislature
| Riksrad
and
Herredag
(one in each kingdom)
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Historical era
| Late Middle Ages
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? Established
| 17 June 1397
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? Engelbrekt rebellion
| 1434?36
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? Stockholm Bloodbath
| November 1520
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| 6 June 1523
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? the Danish
Rigsrad
annexes Norway
| 1536
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? Disestablished
| 1523
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? Treaty of Kiel
| 14 January 1814
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Currency
| Mark
,
Ortug
,
Ore
,
Swedish penning
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Today part of
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- Margaret I ruled Denmark between 1387?1412 and Norway between 1388?1389. She also ruled Sweden between 1389?1412
- Parts of these countries today. Back then they belonged to the three main countries of the Kalmar Union; Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
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The
Kalmar Union
was a historical consisting union of the kingdoms of
Denmark
,
Norway
and
Sweden
, and various other provinces and areas. At that time, Norway included
Iceland
,
Greenland
, the
Faroe Islands
,
Shetland
,
Orkney
, and parts of
Finland
belonged to Sweden. The union was started in 1397 at a meeting in the town of
Kalmar
in Sweden. The union ended on
6 June
1523
when Sweden left the union by
Gustav I
.
[1]
- ↑
"Sweden"
. World Statesmen
. Retrieved
18 January
2015
.