Swedish Empire

Ingria is a historical region in what is now northwestern European Russia. It lies along the southeastern shore of the Gulf of Finland, bordered by Lake Ladoga on the Karelian Isthmus in the north and by the River Narva on the border with Estonia in the west. The earliest known modern inhabitants of the region were indigenous Finnic ethnic groups, primarily the Izhorians and Votians, who converted to Eastern Orthodoxy over several centuries during the late Middle Ages. They were later joined by the Ingrian Finns, descendants of 17th century Lutheran Finnish immigrants to the area. At that time

the years 1611–1721 in the history of Sweden

land reforms in second millennium Sweden; a taking-back of possessions from the nobility by the Crown

Title previously used by Swedish and Danish monarchs

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period in history of the territory of present-day Estonia (historically divided between Swedish Estonia and Swedish Livonia)