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Swedes in the United Kingdom
Swedes in the United Kingdom are immigrants from Sweden living in the United Kingdom as well as their British-born descendants. Although only around 25,000 Swedish-born people live in the UK, millions of Britons have some degree of Scandinavian ancestry that dates back over 1,000 years to the Viking invasion of Britain.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Myths of British ancestry )〕 The Swedish community in the UK is amongst the largest in the Swedish diaspora; in 2001 only the United States, Norway and Finland within the OECD had larger Swedish-born populations.〔
==History and settlement==
The earliest wave of migration from modern day Sweden, Norway and Denmark came in the form of the Viking invasion of Britain in the year 793.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Overview: The Vikings, 800 to 1066 )〕 Viking raids occurred up and down the largely undefended east coast of England and Scotland during the eighth and ninth centuries and Scandinavian settlements became established over the entire island of Great Britain, the most important of which was Jórvík (now York).〔 Viking rule came to an end in the 11th century when Normans invaded the shores of Britain. Despite this, Scandinavian influence is evident in the UK even to this day and many millions of Britons have some Viking heritage (especially in Northern England, Eastern England, Scotland and the Shetland Islands).〔
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Swedish emigration to the United States was rife and the majority of Swedes sailed from Gothenburg to Kingston upon Hull before travelling to Liverpool or Southampton to continue their journey to North America.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Liverpool and Emigration in the 19th and 20th Centuries )〕 This created a significant Swedish presence in these cities, so much so that Swedish churches were built to cater for the dynamic communities.〔 Although most emigrants eventually left the ports for the US, some remained in Britain and started their new lives a stage early.〔
The number of Swedes migrating to the UK grew following the 1995 enlargement of the European Union, when Sweden joined the EU. All EU citizens are able to move and freely seek work in any other EU member state.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Born Abroad: Sweden )〕 The number of Swedish-born people in the UK doubled from around 11,000 in 1991 to 22,525 in 2001.〔
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