traveling tips sweden Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/traveling-tips-sweden Thu, 19 Jan 2017 20:00:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Sweden Guide for Tourist http://toursmaps.com/sweden-guide-for-tourist.html http://toursmaps.com/sweden-guide-for-tourist.html#respond Fri, 03 Feb 2017 05:22:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=228936 1949 Sweden joins the Council of Europe. 1951 Sweden becomes a founding member of the Nordic Council (see above under Denmark). 1958 Nordic Passport and Customs Union. 1960 Sweden a founding member of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA). 1973 Karl XVI Gustav. Death of King Gustav VI Adolf; his grandson succeeds him as Karl XVI. Free trade agreement with the EEC. 1974 New constitution: the king’s powers are considerably reduced from 1 January 1975. 1976 Law providing for workers’ participation in industrial management. The right-wing parties win a general election after 44 years of Social Democratic government. 1977 Birth

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]]> http://toursmaps.com/sweden-guide-for-tourist.html/feed 0 Sweden Travel http://toursmaps.com/sweden-travel.html http://toursmaps.com/sweden-travel.html#respond Wed, 25 Jan 2017 21:52:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=228967 In the Iron Age, which dates in Scandinavia from about 600 B.C. to a.d. 400, the decorative art of the Bronze Age disappears and is replaced by only the most modest attempts at ornament. The magnificent silver cauldron found in a bog at Gundestrup, near Alborg in Jutland (National Museum, Copenhagen), with half-length figures of deities on the outside and scenes of sacrifice on the inside, is thought to be a cult vessel of Celtic origin dating from about the beginning ofthe Christian era. The second main period of Germanic art in Scandinavia, the early historical period of the first

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