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People: Niall of the Nine Hostages

Sweden, forced to cede large areas of …

Years: 1720 - 1731
Sweden, forced to cede large areas of land in the Treaty of Nystad in 1721, also loses its place as an empire and as the dominant state on the Baltic Sea.

With Sweden's lost influence, Russia emerges as an empire and becomes one of Europe's dominant nations.

As the war finally ends in 1721, Sweden has lost an estimated two hundred thousand men, one hundred and fifty thousand of those from the area of present-day Sweden and fifty thousand from the Finnish part of Sweden.