Successful football players include Gunnar Nordahl, Gunnar Gren, Nils Liedholm, Henrik Larsson, Freddie Ljungberg, Caroline Seger, Lotta Schelin, Hedvig Lindahl, and Zlatan Ibrahimović. With Christianisation in the 11th century, the laws of the country changed, forbidding worship of other deities until the late 19th century. [39] The only man who was prevented from voluntarily leaving was the ship's surgeon, whose services were deemed too important to forgo. In 1319, Sweden and Norway were united under King Magnus Eriksson, and in 1397 Queen Margaret I of Denmark effected the personal union of Sweden, Norway, and Denmark through the Kalmar Union. The Swedish government unofficially supported Finland in the Winter War and the Continuation War by allowing volunteers and materiel to be shipped to Finland. The actions of these Swedish Vikings are commemorated on many runestones in Sweden, such as the Greece runestones and the Varangian runestones. There are more than 4.4 million Swedish Americans according to a 2006 US Census Bureau estimate. Still, he's Asia's second-richest man and the richest man in India by far - the next richest is Gautam Adani, who has a $45 billion fortune as compared to Ambani's $78 billion. The country's main quality morning papers are Dagens Nyheter (liberal), Göteborgs-Posten (liberal), Svenska Dagbladet (liberal conservative) and Sydsvenska Dagbladet (liberal). [78][79] Charles XII attempted to invade Norway in 1716, but he was shot dead at Fredriksten fortress in 1718. Swedish traditional dishes, some of which are many hundreds of years old, are still an important part of Swedish everyday meals, in spite of the fact that modern-day Swedish cuisine adopts many international dishes. [h][55] While Fateh Muhammed's treasure of some £50,000 to £60,000 was enough to buy Fancy fifty times over,[56] once the treasure was shared out among the pirate fleet, Every's crew received only small shares. Gotland is a special case of being a county council with only one municipality and the functions of county council and municipality are performed by the same organisation.[172]. The etymology of Swedes, and thus Sweden, is generally agreed to derive from a root *s(w)e, meaning "one's own",[32][33][34] referring to one's own Germanic tribe. [83] Trott sent a letter to Every instructing him that his crew "were welcome to come and to go as they pleased. Among older structures are also some significant fortresses and other historical buildings such as at Borgholm Castle, Halltorps Manor and Eketorp fortress on the island Öland, the Nyköping fortress and the Visby city wall. [191] Sweden decided not to sign the UN treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.[192]. Sweden lies between latitudes 55° and 70° N, and mostly between longitudes 11° and 25° E (part of Stora Drammen island is just west of 11°). "[99] This he did on 11 August at the East India House, giving details of his voyage and plunder on board Fancy. John Avery; the Famous English Pirate, Now in Possession of Madagascar (London: J. Baker, 1709). By now Trott had stripped Fancy of everything valuable, and it was lost after being violently driven against some rocks, perhaps deliberately on the orders of Trott, who was eager to rid himself of a key piece of evidence.[86]. Sweden was officially neutral during World War I, although, under German pressure, they did take steps which were detrimental to the Allied powers including mining the Øresund channel, thus closing it to Allied shipping, and allowing the Germans to use Swedish facilities and the Swedish cipher to transmit secret messages to their overseas embassies. "[70] Philip Middleton testified that several of the Indian men were murdered, while they also "put several to the torture" and Every's men "lay with the women aboard, and there were several that, from their jewels and habits, seemed to be of better quality than the rest. Large organisations, both in manufacturing and services, dominate the Swedish economy. Meanwhile, Fancy had reached St. Thomas, where the pirates sold some of their treasure. These events are often described as the consolidation of Sweden, although substantial areas were conquered and incorporated later. [152][153] The King opens the annual Riksdag session, chairs the Special Council held during a change of Government, holds regular Information Councils with the Prime Minister and the Government, chairs the meetings of the Advisory Council on Foreign Affairs (Swedish: Utrikesnämnden), and receives Letters of Credence of foreign ambassadors to Sweden and signs those of Swedish ambassadors sent abroad. Although stories of brutality by the pirates have been dismissed by sympathizers as sensationalism, they are corroborated by the depositions Every's men provided following their capture. Since the late 1960s, Sweden has had the highest tax quota (as percentage of GDP) in the industrialised world, although today the gap has narrowed and Denmark has surpassed Sweden as the most heavily taxed country among developed countries. Adoption of Lutheranism was completed by the Uppsala Synod of 1593, and it became the official religion. He may have mentioned Thomas Tew's success capturing an enormous prize in the Red Sea only a year earlier. Following his deposition in 1599, Sigismund attempted to reclaim the throne at every expense and hostilities between Poland and Sweden continued for the next one hundred years. China's Richest. In the 1991 election, while the Greens lost their seats, two new parties gained seats for the first time: the Christian Democrats and New Democracy.