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scijior t1_ixv38rf wrote

It never really dawned on me why Norway had such a random northern strip of territory. But the idea that it kept Sweden using the Baltic straight makes a great deal of sense now.

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toyyya t1_ixv5467 wrote

Well that and mountains, a lot of the Swedish-Norwegian border is made up of mountains making it very hard to invade

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Steffalompen t1_ixxd9w2 wrote

Que? It didn't for me. You need to put yourself into the period mode of transportation, which was by sea. The coast of Norway is called "Highway no.1". Hardly any swedes lived inland in the northern half of what is now their country. In a dispute of the rights to the Nasa silver mines, a sami man testified in court that "he had never paid tax to Norway-Denmark", and thus the mines (now clearly encroaching into Norway) were judged to be swedish, even though he never paid any taxes to the swedes either.

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