This is why we have Europa Universalis. Paint that map blue!
this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2025
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Decent amount of time for such a small country.
All for the small cost of a shit ton dead and having to give up everything won during the endless wars 🙃
That seems pretty standard for a "great power", especially the dead.
More like 110 years, tbh
I assume ended in 1709 with defeat from Russia, what’s the starting point?
It's usually defined as from when Gustav II Adolf became king and to 1718 when Karl XII died, that was the definite end and the rest just spasms.
Didn't Carolus Rex just run the country to the ground from the great position Gustav left it in due to sheer incompetence?
Karl XII's entire persona was war. That might certainly count as incompetence
Bernadotte>Napoleon tbh
How dare you
Nej nu jävlar
So?