Kalmar Union

== Background ==
The Kalmar Union was a personal union of the three Scandinavian kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, which was founded on June 17th, 1397 in Kalmar, Sweden, with the coronation of Eric of Pomerania. Throughout its existence, the union was governed by a single monarch who pursued domestic and foreign policies as a unified realm, but the three constituent kingdoms were still legally separate and sovereign. The state was not built to last forever, due to numerous issues such as the dissatisfaction of Danish and Swedish nobility, the union's geography and sheer size, and the effective domination of the union by Denmark. 
== The First Baltic War ==
The union was initially created to counter the trading influence of the Hanseatic League, a northern German trading group which operated all over the Baltic Sea and the North Sea. However, in 1506 (in Brazilian's Varna series) a trading group became irrelevant in comparison to the growing Polish influence in the Baltic region. 
The Livonians had seceded from the Teutonic Order, and were now backing a Polish-Lithuanian offensive on Königsberg, so in January 1507, the Kalmar Union joined the Teutonic side of the war and started invading the Livonian northwest. They saw progress until July when the Teutons surrendered, and Novgorod began invading Vyborg. At the same time, the Finno-Sami Confederation was created by the Finnic and Sami tribes living in the territory between Norrland and Novgorod.
The Kalmar Union launched assaults on both Riga and Åbo (Turku), which both failed to take hold. At this point, the Swedish contingent of the government felt that they were doing all the work as the Danes and Norwegians simply watched. With that, Sweden seceded from the Union for the final time, quickly followed by Norway, who proposed an end to the conflict. Poland agreed, and the belligerents came together to sign the Treaty of Riga, which formalised the dissolution of the Kalmar Union into the constituent kingdoms. 
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