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kalmar union

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.19 in modern English

Syllables
kalmar u-nion
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

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).

Inflected Forms

the Kalmar Union (canonical)

Questions

What does kalmar union mean?
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).

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