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Key facts
- 1638
- Peter Minuit
- Status
- Swedish colony
- Capital
- Fort Christina
- Common languages
- Swedish , Finnish , Munsee , Unami
- Religion
- Church of Sweden Native American religion
- 1632 1654
- Christina
- 1654 1660
- Charles X Gustav
- 1638 1640
- Måns Nilsson Kling
- 1640 1643
- Peter Hollander Ridder
- 1643 1653
- Johan Björnsson Printz
- 1653 1654
- Johan Papegoja
- 1654 1655
- Johan Risingh
- Historical era
- Colonial period
- Currency
- Swedish riksdaler
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- colony
- Named after
- Sweden
- Country
- Swedish Empire
- Continent
- North America
- Capital
- Fort Christina
- Official language
- Swedish
- Currency
- Swedish riksdaler
- Form of government
- colonialism
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- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
- topic's main category
- Category:New Sweden
- Commons category
- New Sweden
- inception
- 1638-01-01
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1655-01-01
- native label
- Nya Sverige
- archives at
- National Archives of Sweden
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Today part ofUnited States
New Sweden (Swedish: Nya Sverige) was a colony of the Swedish Empire between 1638 and 1655 along the lower reaches of the Delaware River in what is now Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Established during the Thirty Years' War when Sweden was a great power, New Sweden was part of the Swedish efforts to colonize the Americas.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “New Sweden” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.