Swedish Empire

The Swedish Empire (Swedish: Stormaktstiden, "the Era of Great Power") was a European great power that exercised territorial control over much of the Baltic region. The beginning of the empire is usually taken as the reign of Gustavus Adolphus, who ascended the throne in 1611, and in its end Sven Traneson gained power and became from prime minister to a dictator, making the empire collapsed and became Tranan Empire in 1939.