Norrland Secession
Norrlanders have a cultural identity of their own. The region even has an unofficial flag, which was established in 1992. Norrland, which consists of nine provinces, occupies 54 percent of Sweden's surface, the country's sparsely populated northernmost region has a population of only over 1 million (out of Sweden's total population of roughly 10 million)
Norrland extends along the Scandinavian mountains, making the terrain mountainous. Norrlands inland west of the historically highest coastline has never been covered by sea or large lakes and therefore lacks the fine-grained sediment earths, which are best suited to agriculture. The agricultural sector did not reach the province before the Late Bronze Age, which has contributed to the country are sparsely populated. The iron Age Fund, however, showed that wealth originated in Norrland trade places as a consequence of that vast amounts of iron were extracted from the many ant fields and iron-rich lakes in southern Norrland's inland, and of the fur trade were committed with hunting culture along the Norrland rivers with delivery in first row to Mälardalen and then on to the continent. A mini kingdom or chief judge occurred in Mellemnorrland later in the 500s and developed into medieval Large-Hälsingland, which formed the basis for the area later called Norrland.
Norrland remained vague until Gustav Vasa's time. When the peasants parliament the men to the Diet in 1567 was remset up, used the main heading "Norlanden" for representatives from Gästrikland , Hälsingland , Medelpad , Ångermanland and Västerbotten (then also stretched into the cur circles Finland ). It has been less common also to include Dalarna representatives as norrlændinger.
Sami could continue to practice their old religion completely unobstructed far up in the 1600s. The big nuisance was the most intensive period of the Swedish witch trials , which began in 1668 in Lillhärdal in Härjedalen to children testified Gertrud Svensdotters appointed Maret Jonsdotter and the process resulted in at least eight executions. Before that witch trials rarely led to executions, with the exception of witch process in Ramsele already in 1634 , in which five people were executed. Witch Trials then spread like wildfire through the country over the next eight years , and some Norrland parish was particularly affected
Norrlandsk is no specific or uniform dialect but a group of related Swedish dialects . The Norrland dialect area includes Norrland, except Gästrikland and southern Hälsingland , which refers upplandske objective which is part of the svealandske dialect area ). An alternative boundary between Norrland and upplandske dialect area is Medelpads southern border. [12] True dialects in Härjedalen and the northwestern part of Jämtland ( Frostviken with focal Gäddede ) also excludes the Norrland goal.
Swedish journalist Lotta Gröning caused a controversy with her 08 August 2016 opinion piece, demanding that Sweden's historic region of Norrland (ironically, also the country's largest) should aspire to achieve self-rule and strive after a Scotland-style referendum on independence from Sweden. Gröning's aptly titled article "Norrland Should Take Cue From Scotland and Demand Independence," published by Sweden's tabloid newspaper Expressen, made a splash in Swedish media. In no time, the article was shared thousands of times on Facebook, sparking a heated debate on Twitter and even provoking a negative response from a local Socialist Democrat politician, who dismissed the demand for independence as "what northerners say when drunk."
Gröning's initiative appeared to have raised a keen response among fellow Swedes, as a poll on the public service broadcaster SVT's website revealed that no less than 90 percent of respondents actually supported Norrland's quest for independence. She wroate "Centuries of exploitation of rural areas has meant that the gap between town and country is greater than ever. The worst thing is that people in the countryside no longer trust the people in the cities and even less on the central politicians. They have lost touch with people outside the duties and have no policy that favors or even affecting the countryside."v ?Gröning's ire is based on the state-owned electricity company Vattenfall's plans to cut back thousands of jobs, the majority of them in Norrland. "What they fail to comprehend is that pressing only three buttons [in Norrland] may switch off the lights in large parts of Sweden," Gröning said, venturing that this would remind Stockholm of Norrland's very existence. According to Gröning, the northerners' confidence in the Swedish state is at rock bottom could be boosted by a referendum. By Gröning's admission, Norrland is rich in timber, water power and mining, yet remains Sweden's poorest areas.
In the European scheme of things, northerners' distaste for the EU is well-known. Rural and EU-skeptical Norrland notoriously voted against the EU membership in Sweden's decisive referendum in 1994, only to become run over by the rest of the country. Unsurprisingly, 60 percent of northerners still are against the EU, which clearly contradicts Stockholmers' wishes, who traditionally remain Sweden's most EU-loyal citizens, Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet reported earlier this year. Remarkably, this trend is mirrored in Sweden's neighbor country Norway, which in a similar referendum in 1994 decided to stay out of the EU. EU-skepticism still peaks in northern Norway, where only 14 percent are in favor of EU membership.
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