Word.ws English Dictionary

Kalmar Union

Kalmar Union proper noun: 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).

Proper noun

the Kalmar Union

  1. 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).

Questions about Kalmar Union

What does Kalmar Union mean?
Kalmar Union means 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).
What part of speech is Kalmar Union?
Kalmar Union is a proper noun.

Words near Kalmar Union in the dictionary

  1. Kalman filtered
  2. Kalman filtering
  3. Kalman filters
  4. Kalmans
  5. Kalmar
  6. Kalmar Union
  7. Kalmarian
  8. Kalmars
  9. Kalmenoff
  10. kalmia
  11. kalmias

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Kalmar Union (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Kalmar Union.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/kalmar_union. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.