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    Christopher Polhem (category Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
    ennobled by King Charles XII of Sweden for his contributions to Swedish technological development. Polhem (Polhammar) was born on the island of Gotland in the...
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    Holy Cross Exaltation Monastery, Poltava (category Monasteries of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate))
    1845. Several foreign leaders have visited the monastery. King Charles XII of Sweden visited the monastery during the Great Northern War, as did Peter...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to Eric XIV of Sweden. Biography of Eric XIV of Sweden "Eric XIV." . The American Cyclopædia. 1879. Vasa - Adelsvapen-Wiki...
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    Adlercreutz (category Swedish families of Finnish ancestry)
    served king Charles XI and Charles XII in the Treasury and was knighted on 26 September 1700 in Karlshamn by King Charles XII of Sweden with the name...
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    Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld (category Members of the Privy Council of Sweden)
    1722) was a Swedish Field Marshal (fältmarskalk) and Royal Councillor. He was mentor and chief military advisor to King Charles XII of Sweden, and served...
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    known as the Age of Liberty. The Instrument came about as a result of the succession crisis which occurred after Charles XII of Sweden died childless during...
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  • Palmencrona (category Swedish noble families)
    her issue were ennobled (No. 1559) in 1718 by King Charles XII. "Palmencrona nr 1559 - Adelsvapen-Wiki". Gustaf Elgenstierna, Den introducerade svenska...
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    Verner von Heidenstam (category Members of the Swedish Academy)
    1895) and Karolinerna (The Charles Men, 2 vols., 1897–1898), a series of historical portraits of King Charles XII of Sweden and his cavaliers, shows a...
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    the late Charles XII of Sweden, who also had been Grand Duke of Finland. About the same time, in October 1742, he was chosen by the Swedish parliament...
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    Instrument of Government. His son and successor Charles XII was less sensitive, especially toward the end of his reign, when the strains imposed by the Great...
    10 KB (1,280 words) - 07:11, 26 December 2023
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    decision of Tsar Peter must be considered within the context of the Great Northern War between Russia and Sweden. In October 1708 Charles XII was caught...
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    Dalecarlian horse (category Culture of Sweden)
    national toy in 1716. According to the legend, soldiers loyal to King Charles XII were quartered in the Dalecarlian region and carved the toys as gifts...
    13 KB (1,651 words) - 08:30, 25 April 2024
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    Safavid court during the reign of Charles XI of Sweden (r. 1660–1697) and Charles XII of Sweden (r. 1697–1718); and Suleiman of Persia (26 October 1666 – 29...
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  • "Statsbesök från Tunisien – dag 1 - Sveriges Kungahus". Kungahuset (in Swedish). November 2015. Archived from the original on 6 May 2021. Retrieved 26...
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    Eric (category Pages with Swedish IPA)
    X of Sweden, the King of Sweden between 1208 and 1216 Eric XI of Sweden, the son of king Erik X of Sweden and Richeza of Denmark Eric XII of Sweden, rival...
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  • Pope Pius XII and Germany
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    Pius XII (1939–1958) led the Catholic Church during the rise and fall of Nazi Germany. Around a third of Germans were Catholic in the 1930s, most of them...
    203 KB (24,740 words) - 17:45, 22 March 2024
  • Xii)
    such as Backgammon have a long history of 12 points on each side of the gaming board, as evidenced in the XII scripta board in the museum at Ephesus....
    52 KB (6,115 words) - 13:52, 25 April 2024
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    iconography of the Immaculata was established by Francisco Pacheco (1564–1654), a Spanish artistic advisor to the Inquisition, based on Revelation XII:1. John...
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  • 9, 2021. Plutarch. "Life of Antony." WikiSource. Retrieved August 8, 2018. Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica, Book XII,19 Bovsun, Mara (January...
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