At the start of the 18th Century, Sweden was the undisputed power in the Baltic region and a dominant force in Northern Europe. However, the Swedish empire was in the way of the regional ambitions of ...

A team from the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research has uncovered a long-lost secret passageway from the time of the Great Northern War. The Galärvegen, or ‘Galley Road’, was a strip of ...

The 325th anniversary of the start of the Great Northern War was marked in Narva with the unveiling of a memorial bench. The bench, rough-hewn from wood, commemorates Charles XII of Sweden's victory.

Why did Peter the Great wage the Seven Years War? Why did he fight the Swedes for seven years? And the Battle of Poltava, do you know where it is? Where are Sweden and Poltava? The decisive battle of ...