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The past weeks have been meaningful for the Filipino community in Sweden, with initiatives led by Ambassador Patrick A. Chuasoto of the Philippine Embassy in Stockholm and Dr. Birgit Tremml-Werner, Associate Professor of History at Stockholm University.
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Blog entry written in September 2025 by Maarten Manse
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11-13 September 2024
Utrecht University, The Netherlands
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We can learn much from the way diplomacy was conducted in the Islamic courts of the southern Philippines, where the power of words to decisively and deliberately avoid conflict and regulate political relations was particularly prominent in border regions (thagr).
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As historical anniversaries go, the main event in Sweden in 2024 is the commemoration of ABBA’s victory in the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with their song Waterloo. For globally minded historians, however, another anniversary seems at least as important: the bicentennial of the 1824 Anglo-Dutch Treaty, also known as the Treaty of London.
