AboutSweden

SYMBOLSRoyal Enseign

RoyaltyCarl Gustav XVI Queen Sylvia

General issues • Surface: 449.964 km• Language: Swedish, plus as

minority: Yiddish, Romani, Sami, Meankieli and Finland.

• 87% Luterans• Population: 9,644,864• Density: 20.6/km^2• Indepence: 6/6/1523 from

Denmark• Constitutional Monarchy• Prime minister: Fredrik

Reinfeldt

• National anthem: Du gamla, du fria

• Royal motto: «For Sverige i tiden»

• National holiday: 6/6• Currency: Swenks krona• GPA: $393.774 billion• UTC +1• In ONU since 10/19/1946• EU member since 1/1/1995• Seats in EEP: 20

About history

• Swedish middle age starts with the arrival of the benedectine monk Ansga (Fr) in 829

• In 1000 the king Olof Skotknung converted and starts contacr with European culture

• Between XII-XVIII The Anseatic League was born (confederation of nordic city)

• 1510-20 King Christian II of Denmark invades the country and executes many Swedish noblemen

• The Church was opposing to a strong monarchy and the Parliament declares that the king is also the head of the swedish Church

• Gustav Vasa excapes from the jail and he conquers Stockholm

About Economy (1)IKEA ASEA

About Economy (2)VOLVO SAAB

Stockholm• Aka «northern Venice»• 59°21’N 18°4’E• Stockholm was an

important place for iron’s commerce (from the cave of Bergslagen)

• It’s said that Birger Jarl is the founder of Stockholm to protect Sweden from the invasions from the sea

• 1252: for the 1° time Stockholm is mentioned in an official document

• 1419: Stockholm becomes capital city

• 1520: Massacre ordered by Christian II of Denmark

• 1521: Gustav Vasa enters Stockholms and for Sweden starts a new Era

Lappland• Samis are the inhabitants

of Lappland• Lappland is divided

between Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia

• Lappland covers ¼ of Sweden’s territory

• Main activity: Sami’s breeding of reideens

• Most important city: Kiruna

Kiruna 1/27-2/1: Annual snow festival

which includes:1. Open Swedish Chammpionish

in show scultures)

2. Jumps with snowmobile

3. Reindeer riding

4. Exposition of pulling dogs

LKAB Infomine, the biggest underground mine in the world

An aerospacial center can be visit (Esrange) and from here is possible to start a travel of 2h to pierce the Borealis Aurora

Ice Hotel (Jukkasjarvi) This particular hotel is built

from 30.000 tons of snow and from 4000 ice blockes.

This hotel is built with the same technique used by US Army during the 2° world war.

This hotel counts nearly 60 rooms, an hall, a bar (sponsored by Absolute vodka), a church and a open theatre.

The structure is made is made between october and december and lasts until april.

Harads’ Hotel Britta and Kent Lindvall wanted

to give to turists in which they were in touch with nature

Each ‘room’ is made of a cube (4x4x4) of aluminium (with a mirror glass)

A room has:

1. A bed

2. An hall

3. A kitchen

4. A bathroom

5. A deck on the top

Midsummer 2° for importance The region of Dalecarlia (N-O of

Stockholm) follows strictly the tradition and the inhabitants wear traditional costumes

Picking upflowersis the main activity of the festival(flowers compose wreath which decorate the tree)

The tree is the fulcrum of the festival

Traditional menù: Potatoes, Snaps, Salmon and Herrings

Bjorn Rune Borg For six times, Borg had

been n° 1 of men’s ranking (in total 109 weeks)

He gained two times the Gold Medal from Svenska Dagbladet

Palmarès:• 6 «French Open»• 5 in-a-row at

Wimbledon• 2 Masters Cups

Ingemar Stenmark 86 wins in the World Cup He gained two times the

Gold Medal from Svenska Dagbladet

In 1979, Stenmark recived a very important prize, the Holmenkollen medal, which is the most important medal for the Alpine Skiing

Event 1° 2° 3°

Olympic Games 2 0 1

World Championship 3 1 0

Total 5 1 1

THE «GRE-NO-LI»

Nils Liedholm Position: Att midfielder Nickname: «The Baron» Total score: 137 4° eldest player with

Milan (38 years) Palmarès as player:

• 4 Serie A• 2 Allsvenskan• 2 Latin Cups• 1 Olympic Gold

Medal, (London 1948) Palmarès as trainer:

• 2 Serie A • 3 Coppe Italia

Gunnar Gren Position: Forward Nickname:

«The Professor» Total score in Serie A:

45 (for 217 apps) He played also in

Fiorentina & Genoa Palmarès as player:

• 1 Serie A• 1 Allsvenskan• 1 Latin cup• 1 Guldbollen• 1 Gold Medal,

(London 1948)

Gunnar Nordahl Position: Striker Nickname: «The Fireman» Apps/Gls: 172 (149) in

Allsvenskan Apps/Gls: 221 (210) in Serie A Palmarès as player:

• 4 Allsvenskan • 4 Allsvenskan Top

Scorer • 2 Swedish Cup• 2 Serie A • 5 Serie A top Scorer• 4 Coppe Italia• 2 Latin Cups • 1 Olympic Gold Medal,

London 1948• 1 Olympic Games Top

Scorer

Zlatan Ibrahimovic Position: Striker Only Ibrahimovic won 8

Guldbollen (7 of this were in-a-row)

He gained a black belt in Taekwondo

Ibrahimovic played in Sweden (Malmo FC), Netherlands (Ajax), Italy (Juventus, Inter and Milan), Spain (Barcellona) and France (Paris Saint-Germain)

He refused to go to London (Arsenal) and he said: «Zlatan doesn’t need to do any audiction»

He is the current captain and the strongest player of Sweden’s national team

Ibrahimovic’s palmarèsClubo (A) Eredivisie (2):o KNVB Cup (1):o Johan Cruijff Shield o (J) Serie A (2): 2004–05, 2005–06 (both

revoked due to the Calciopoli scandal)o (I)Serie A (3)o Supercoppa Italiana (2)o (B) La Liga (1):o Supercopa de España (2)o UEFA Super Cup (1)o FIFA Club World Cup (1)o (M) Serie A (1): o Supercoppa Italiana (1)o (P) Ligue 1 (1)o Trophée des champions (1)

Individualo Golden Foot (1): 2012o FIFA Puskás Award (1): 2013o FIFPro World XI (1): 2013o UEFA Team of the Year (3): 2007, 2009, 2013o UEFA Champions League 2012-13: Highest Assists [69]o ESM Team of the Year (3): 2006–07, 2007–08, 2012–13o Ligue 1 Player of the Year (1): 2012–13o Ligue 1 Team of the Year (1): 2012–13o Ligue 1 Top Goalscorer (1): 2012–13o Serie A Top Scorer (2): 2009, 2012o Serie A Foreign Footballer of the Year (5): 2005, 2008,

2009, 2011, 2012o Serie A Footballer of the Year (3): 2008, 2009, 2011o Serie A Team of the Year (2): 2010–11, 2011–12o Supercoppa Italiana 2011: Man of the Matcho Guldbollen (8): 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011,

2012, 2013o Jerringpriset (1): 2007o Swedish Male Athlete of the Year (2): 2007, 2010

ABBA 1970-1982 Total album. 8 1974: ABBAs win the

Eurofestival with Waterloo

Nearly 400 million copies

Only Volvo gained more than ABBAs

In Stockholm there’s a museum dedicated to ABBA

BASSHUNTER Jonas Erik Altberg aka

Basshunter, is a Swedish singer, songwriter, record producer, and DJ (Electronica, eurodance, trance and electronic dance).

Basshunter has so far released a total of six albums, two of which have been released in the United Kingdom.

Greates hits:

1. Boten Anna

2. Vi sitter i Ventrilo och spelar Dota

3. Now You're Gone

4. All I Ever Wanted

DADA LIFE The duo consists of Olle Corneer

and Stefan Engblom and was formed in 2006

Their simbol is a champagne bottle between two bananas

In two years they … of DJ Magazine's Top 100, from position #89 to #24

On October 26, 2013, Dada Life broke the Guinness World Record for the world's largest pillow fight at a Dada Land Compound event at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago and had 3,813 participants

In fall 2012, Dada Life embarked on a tour of the same name, visiting over 40 cities in the US and Canada, playing to over 100,000 fans and reportedly using more than 8,000 lbs of bananas and 3,000 bottles of champagne

The Swedish House Mafia

SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA Swedish House Mafia was a

Swedish electronic dance music which officially formed in late 2008.

The supergroup placed at number ten on the DJ Magazine Top 100 DJ Poll 2011 and have been called "the faces of mainstream progressive house music."

In the DJ Magazine Top 100 Poll 2012 they were ranked at number 12

On June 24, 2012, the group announced via their website that they would split up after embarking on "One Last Tour," which ended at Ultra Miami 2013 on March 24, 2013.

The instruments that they used were: music sequencer, synthesiser, sampler, drum machine, personal computer, turntables, keyboard and Logic Pro.

Ingmar Bergman He is recognized as one of

the most accomplished and influential film directors of all time.

He was gratuated in history and in licterature.

He falls in love with the theatre, later he meets cinema and he starts a new carrier

Bergman became famous in ‘50s with “The seventh Seal”

3 Oscars for the Best Foreign Film

6 Golden Globe for the Best Foreign Film

Ingrid Bergman She won three Academy

Awards, two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards and the Tony Award for Best Actress.

She is ranked as the fourth greatest female star of American cinema of all time by the American Film Institute.

She’s famous for:

1. Casablanca

2. Cary Grant (by A. Hitchcock)

3. For Whom the Bell Tolls

4. Under Capricorn

Greta Garbo Her real name is Greta Lovisa

Gustafsson Nickname «La divina» One of the most famous

actress of all time 13 mute Films and 15 with the

sound Federico Fellini named her

«La fata severa» because ‘she is the founder of a religious order called cinema’

1 oscar of the carrier 4 nominations for «Best

actress»:

1. Anna Christie, 1930

2. Romance, 1930

3. Margherita Gauthier, 1937

4. Ninotchka, 1939

Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg

Anita Ekberg is surely a famous actress thanks to Federico Fellini with:

«La dolce vita»

«Boccaccio 70»

Apart these two films, she hadn’t realized anything relevant.

Percy Barnevik Percy Nils Barnevik (born 13

February 1941) is a Swedish business executive, aka, CEO and later Chairman of Asea Brown Boveri (ABB).

Co-Founder of Hand-in-Hand, a no-profict organisation.

For many times Fortune named him manager of the year.

Quotes: Think global and act of local. Someone is a leader if he is

able to persuade his colleagues to do something impossible, in theirs opinion, and he helps them.

Carl von Linné His father was very interested

in botanic and changed his surnane in Linneus (latin form of Linn «Linden», tiglio)

He laids the foundations for the modern biological naming scheme of binomial nomenclature.

 Jean-Jacques Rousseau sent him the message: "Tell him I know no greater man on earth.“

Carl von Linné created three different classifications for:

1. Plants (24 Classis)

2. Animals (6 Classis)

3. Minerals (4 Classis)

Alfred Nobel Swedish chemist, engineer,

innovator, and armaments manufacturer, Alfred nobel is famous for his invenction, the Dynamite

He invented dynamite while he was trying to give to Sobrero’s discovery something to control her power, the nitro-glycerin

Clay+nitro-glycerin=Dynamite After this discover, Nobel founded

many companies to test Dynamite and he became rich

In his will, the claimed his volunty to give his money to deserving people who does something important for:

1. Chemistry 2. Literature3. Peace4. Physics5. Medicine

About «the Vasa» It’s the only vassel left of the

XVII century 52m x 69m x 1200tonns 95% of the vassel is original In 1990, Carl Gustav XVI

inagurated a museum for the Vasa The king Gustav II Adolf wanted

his construction A crew of 400 people, under the

supervision of Henrik Hybertson, construpted this vassel and they took 2 years to finish it

The mistery of runic stones 800-1050 Vicking age It’s said that Odin sculpted

them in order to spreed misteries of Sky and Earth

The first stone translated shows the mistery of Sigurd the nordic version of st. George

Not much left about Middle age because culture was spreaded with an oral tradition

No paper? Use stones! Rok Runestone shows the

longest story about nordic legends

Ale’s stones 59 stones in a vertical position Noboby knows the reason for

this name The structure of Ale’s Stones is

a «Stone boat» (67X19 m) 1500-1000 a.C, Iron Age Actually, nobody knows the

function of Ale’s Stones:• Place for the workship of the

Sun• Like a Calendar to understand

when were solstices

Skansen• Skansen is the first open air

museum and zoo in Sweden and is located on the island Djurgården in Stockholm, Sweden.

• It was founded in 1891 by Artur Hazelius to show the way of life in the different parts of Sweden before the industrial era.

• This horse is a symbol of Sweden. The King donated, as a gift, one to Clinton when he came to Sweden.

• Skansen also shows a miniatury of an average city.

The «big six»1. Brown Bear

2. Wolf

3. Lynx

4. Wolverine

5. Moose

6. Muskox

1. 2.3m x 1.25m x 350 kg

2. it’s not easy to see a wolf, 70 kg

3. lives in the northern area, but as well as for wolves is not easy to find a linx, 1,30m

4. Only 100 are survived and they are very protected, they attack Sami’s reindeers because they have problems in founding their loot

5. They are loot for hunters

6. 225-400kg, they can reach 60kph