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At the culmination of a Swedish civil war, supporters of the deposed King Sigismund III Vasa were publicly executed in the Åbo Bloodbath.
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Ruler of Poland-Lithuania from 1587 to 1632 and of Sweden from 1592 to 1599
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Åbo Bloodbath
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