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Kalmar Union
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English
Proper noun
1 Kalmar union
en Former polities A personal union in Scandinavia from 1397 to 1523, agreed at Kalmar in Sweden, joining under a single monarch the three kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden (including much of present-day Finland), and Norway, together with Norway's overseas colonies (then including Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and the Northern Isles of Orkney and Shetland).
Translations
personal union in Scandinavia
Danish: da Kalmarunionen
Finnish: fi Kalmarin unioni
Icelandic: is Kalmarsambandið
Norwegian: no Kalmarunionen
Polish: pl unia kalmarska f
Swedish: sv Kalmarunionen