sweden facts Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/sweden-facts Thu, 19 Jan 2017 20:00:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 SWEDEN http://toursmaps.com/sweden-2.html http://toursmaps.com/sweden-2.html#respond Wed, 08 Feb 2017 18:22:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=229084 SWEDEN is one of the most prosperous nations in the world, and in social terms is perhaps the most progressive. This is the result of a long period of peace which allowed a slow but steady advance and of the country’s abundance of mineral resources and water power, which provided the basis for an early and rapid development of industry. Sweden has large deposits of iron ore in Lapland with a 60-70% iron content as well as zinc, lead, pyrites, copper, manganese, silver and gold. The coalfields in western Skane, now depleted, led to the development of industries in that

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]]> http://toursmaps.com/sweden-2.html/feed 0 Traveling in Sweden http://toursmaps.com/traveling-in-sweden.html http://toursmaps.com/traveling-in-sweden.html#respond Mon, 06 Feb 2017 22:02:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=228974 South German type, became the main type of animal ornament on the European continent. In Animal Style III, which developed in Scandinavia about 700, highly abstract animal figures are used to form elaborate ornamental compositions, producing for example circular whorls or mirror-image pairs. Here again the burin was used. The Viking style or late animal style (a.d. 800-1100). The great Viking expansion was made possible by their keeled boats, with strengthened bottoms to take the mast and keel, like those found in a bog at Nydam in Slesvig (three sea-going boats dating from the 4th c. the largest being an

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