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Key

Sweden Poland–Lithuania and Sigismund's party Denmark–Norway Russia The emperor and the Catholic League bond — succession, office, alliance conflict — war, revolt, prosecution

Sources & method

  1. Linköping Bloodbath, 20 March 1600 — Wikipedia (English and Swedish): the trial, Charles as prosecutor, five councillors beheaded — source
  2. Norrköpings arvförening, 1604 — Swedish Wikipedia: Charles recognized as king, the crown fixed on his line — source
  3. Battle of Kircholm, 1605, and Charles IX — Wikipedia (English and Swedish) — source
  4. De la Gardie campaign and the Ingrian War, 1609–1617 — Wikipedia: Vyborg, Moscow, Klushino, Novgorod, Stolbovo — source
  5. Kalmar War and the Peace of Knäred — Wikipedia (English and Swedish) — source
  6. Polish–Swedish War (1626–1629) and the Truce of Altmark — Wikipedia — source
  7. Battle of Lützen (1632) and Bernard of Saxe-Weimar — Wikipedia — source
  8. Axel Oxenstierna — Wikipedia: chancellor 1612–1654, Knäred, the regency, Brömsebro — source
  9. Torstenson War, 1643–1645, and the Treaty of Brömsebro — Wikipedia — source
  10. Christina, Queen of Sweden — Wikipedia: the regency, Salvius, the Prague collections, the abdication — source
  11. Charles X Gustav — Wikipedia: the Polish war, the march across the Belts, Copenhagen, his death at Gothenburg — source
  12. Treaties of Roskilde (1658), Oliva and Copenhagen (1660) — Wikipedia — source
Method. The chain of people follows a sourced account of the polity, 1600–1660; every claim the narration makes was checked against the sources above. Borders: historical-basemaps (A. Ourednik, GPL-3.0), the c.1600 snapshot, simplified — schematic, the right states in roughly the right places. Territorial changes: modern provinces (Natural Earth) or later snapshots standing in for historical ones. Portraits: each credited with its author, licence and source on the readable page. Relief: Esri World Physical Map. Narration: Azure neural voice.
A narrated polity atlas · 1600–1660

Sweden, 1600–1660

How did a kingdom at war with its own king become master of the Baltic in sixty years?
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