united scandinavia

  1. Sweden loses the War of Liberation?

    The Swedish War of Liberation was the conflict that led to the rise of the House of Vasa in Sweden and ended the Kalmar Union for good. In spite of its ultimately victorious conclusion, however, the war began as a small peasant uprising, and even after it grew in size it took the rebels two...
  2. A Danish victory at Brunkeberg?

    The Battle of Brunkeberg was a crushing setback for Denmark and the Kalmar Union, since it secured Sweden's independence from Copenhagen for the next few decades. Although John and Christian II did control the kingdom later, they only did so for a brief amount of time before it broke away for...
  3. Gothenburg as the capital of a Scandinavian Union

    Let's say that Scandinavia unites in a similar manner to Germany and Italy during the 1800s and Gothenburg is chosen as the new capital. How would the city change? They would obviously need a parliament building and a royal palace (assuming that it is a monarchy) but how would these buildings...
  4. AltoRegnant

    WI: Kalmar Union Federalized?

    OTL, as i understand it, the Kalmar Union functioned as a trifold personal union, not as a single United Kingdom of Scandinavia. however, it lasted from 1397 to 1523, well over a century, and other comparable unions, like Scotland and England, or Castile and Aragon, or the Hapsburg Empire...
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