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Sweden: Modern Sweden
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Sweden is an export-oriented market economy featuring a modern distribution system, excellent internal and external communications, and a skilled labour force. Timber, hydropower, and iron ore constitute the resource base of an economy heavily oriented toward foreign trade. Sweden's engineering sector accounts for 50% of output and exports. Telecommunications, the automotive industry and the pharmaceutical industries are ... of great importance. Agriculture accounts for 2 percent of GDP and employment.
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The modern name Sweden is derived through "back-formation" from Old English Sweoðeod, which meant "people of the Swedes" (Old Norse Svíþjóð, Latin Suetidi). This word is derived from Sweon/Sweonas (Old Norse Sviar, Latin Suiones). The Swedish name Sverige literally means "Realm of the Swedes", excluding the Geats in Götaland.
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Asgeir Torfason, market officer for ProLogis in Sweden, added that until recently the large majority of the existing floorspace in Sweden had been developed on an owner-occupier or pre-lease basis, primarily serving the needs of customers with local distribution requirements. "More and more customers with pan-European distribution requirements are realizing the strategic importance of Sweden as a regional distribution hub," said Torfason. "This has resulted in greater demand for our modern facilities both on a build-to-suit and inventory basis, where ProLogis has been somewhat of a pioneer; completing two such projects during 2007, both of which are now fully leased."
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The 1960s was generally a fruitful period for dance in Sweden, with many new companies emerging. The Scandinavian Ballet, founded by von Rosen, and A. Fridericia, presented a Swedish-Danish repertoire of works by Bournonville, van Rosen, and Cramér, and Cullberg became director of the state-subsidized Cullberg Ballet which presented her own works. She was succeeded by her son Mats Ek, whose own work dominated the repertory, and briefly by C. Carlson. In 1968 Cramér founded Cramérballetten in Stockholm to present his own ballets. The ballet company attached to the Stadsteatern at Malmö until 1994 performed a repertory of largely neo-classical works and has since relocated to the town of Lund. Since the 1980s a small but vigorous independent dance scene has ... developed, with companies like Efva Lilja Danceproduction, Rubicon, and the Modern Dance Theatre presenting regular dance performances in Stockholm, and choreographer Per Jonsson acquiring an international reputation.
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Sweden is a safe and modern country in northern Europe, and it has accrued a spectacular reputation as an innovator and creative force. Sweden's famed corporate brands - like Volvo, Ikea, Ericsson, H&M and Saab - complement its cultural brands - like Bergman, Abba, Astrid Lindgren, Bjorn Borg, Strindberg, The Cardigans and Garbo.
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Sweden's cultural and intellectual life was influenced by growing ties with Europe, a conservative Lutheran church, and the country's relative poverty for much of the early modern period. In 1500 Sweden was on the fringes of Europe. Except for churches and a network of medieval royal castles, architecture was at best rustic. Schools were few, and the country's one university at Uppsala, founded in 1477, virtually ceased operation in the late sixteenth century.
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