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New Sweden was a Swedish colony established in 1638. The colony was located at North America's east coast along the Delaware river in the present U.S. states of Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland. The colony stretched approximately from today's city of Wilmington to Philadelphia.
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The colony of Delaware began as part of the Dutch territory of New Netherland in the early 17th century, with the establishment of trading posts along the Delaware River. In 1638, Swedish settlers founded the colony of New Sweden, which included parts of present-day Delaware. The area changed hands when the Dutch seized it in 1655, and eventually, in 1664, the English captured it, integrating Delaware into their colonies. Delaware became a separate colony in 1704, while remaining under the governance of Pennsylvania until the American Revolution.
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During first colonization of the Americas in the Mid-Atlantic region of Delaware by the Swedes, Dutch and later British, the region was heavily wooded. Northern Delaware, or what is today New Castle County sits on the Piedmont Plateau. It also has the valley system formed by the Brandywine River. To the east is the great Delaware River that opens up into the Atlantic Ocean. Much of the Delaware River and Bay shores are wetlands and marshes. Southern Delaware is of much flatter (sea level) land, as it on the Atlantic shores.
Delaware. Sweden had a colony by the Delaware river called Nya Sverige (translation, New Sweden). It was founded 1638 and got captured by the Dutch 1655.
I'm not sure. It was called "New sweden" when it existed though. New Sweden was a Swedish colony along the Delaware River on the Mid-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 American states of Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
New Sweden was a Swedish colony along the lower reaches of Delaware River in North America from 1638 to 1655 in the present-day American Mid-Atlantic states of Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
The New Sweden Colony was located at and around Fort Christina which is present day Wilmington as well as on the New Jersey side of the Delaware River.
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The group that took over the Swedish settlements along the Delaware River was the Swedish. Later, the Danish and Finnish took over some of these settlements.