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[[Image:New Sweden map.png|thumb|right|500px|Map of New Sweden forts and settlements, 1638-1655, together with their modern names.]]'''New Sweden''' (Swedish: Nya Sverige) was a Swedish colony on the Delaware River on the Atlantic coast of North America from 1638 to 1655. It was centered at Fort Christina, now in Wilmington, Delaware, and included parts of the present-day states of [[Portal:Delaware|Delaware]], [[Portal:New Jersey|New Jersey]], and [[Portal:Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]]. About 600 Swedes and 300 Finns, Dutch, and Germans built the colony for the purpose of producing tobacco and furs.<ref name="WNN">"New Sweden" in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Sweden (accessed 7 November 2008).</ref> | [[Image:New Sweden map.png|thumb|right|500px|Map of New Sweden forts and settlements, 1638-1655, together with their modern names.]]'''New Sweden''' (Swedish: Nya Sverige) was a Swedish colony on the Delaware River on the Atlantic coast of North America from 1638 to 1655. It was centered at Fort Christina, now in Wilmington, Delaware, and included parts of the present-day states of [[Portal:Delaware|Delaware]], [[Portal:New Jersey|New Jersey]], and [[Portal:Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]]. About 600 Swedes and 300 Finns, Dutch, and Germans built the colony for the purpose of producing tobacco and furs.<ref name="WNN">"New Sweden" in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Sweden (accessed 7 November 2008).</ref> | ||