== Edit request, 1 June 2010. == 

 The paragraph beginning "In 1710 the Black Death reached Stockholm. After the end of the Great Northern War the city stagnated. Population growth halted and economic growth slowed. The city was in shock after having lost its place as the capital of a Great Power." has some severe problems. Firstly, the Black Death raged in the 1300's; the plague that hit Stockholm in 1710 was just your average same-old generic 'plague'. Not the Black Death. Secondly, the paragraph, as written, appears to say that Stockholm somehow ceased to be the capital of Sweden (a great power), when what happened was that Sweden ceased to be a great power, and Stockholm lost status as a result. Someone ought to fix this, perhaps with a reference to a (nonexistent?) page about the 1710 plague.