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| H. C. Andersen • Niels Bohr • H. C. Ørsted • Sweyn Forkbeard Peter Schmeichel • Søren Kierkegaard • Tycho Brahe • Karen Blixen |
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c. Hans Christian Andersen (ˈhanˀs ˈkʰʁæʂd̥jan ˈɑnɐsn̩ in Danish or simply H Niels Henrik David Bohr (nels ˈb̥oɐ̯ˀ in Danish 7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962 was a Danish Physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding Sweyn I Forkbeard, in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, in English Sven the Dane, also known as Swegen and Tuck, ( Old Norse Peter Bolesław Schmeichel MBE (born 18 November 1963 in Gladsaxe, Denmark) is a retired Danish professional footballer Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (ˈsœːɐn ˈkʰiɐ̯kəˌɡ̊ɒˀ in Danish Anglicized as;) Tycho Brahe, born Tyge Ottesen Brahe ( December 14 1546 &ndash October 24 1601) was a Danish nobleman Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke ( April 17, 1885 &ndash September 7, 1962) Née Karen Dinesen, was a 7 million |
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| Predominantly Lutheran; small minorities of other faiths; secular. The Kingdom of Denmark ( ˈd̥ænmɑɡ̊ (archaic ˈd̥anmɑːɡ̊ commonly known as Denmark, is a country in the Scandinavian region of northern Europe The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page |utc_offset = -2 to -4 |time_zone_DST = BRST |utc_offset_DST = -2 to -5 |cctld For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. "Sverige" redirects here For other uses see Sweden (disambiguation and Sverige (disambiguation. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat meaning "Land of the Greenlanders" Grønland is a self-governing Danish Province located between the New Zealand is an Island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses (the North Island and the South Island Iceland, officially the Republic of Iceland ( ( Ísland or Lýðveldið Ísland ( The Faroe Islands or Faeroe Islands or simply Faroe(s or Faeroes (Føroyar meaning " Sheep Islands" Færøerne Old Norse Ireland ( Irish: Éire, ˈeːrʲə is a country in north-western Europe. Danish ( d̥ænsɡ̊ is one of the North Germanic languages (also called Scandinavian languages a sub-group of the Germanic branch of the Lutheranism is a major branch of Western Christianity that identifies with the teachings of the sixteenth-century German reformer Martin Luther | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The term Dane may refer to:
- People with a Danish ancestral or ethnic identity, whether living in Denmark, emigrants, or the descendants of emigrants. Norwegians See also History of Norway and Demography of Norway. The German people (Deutsche are an Ethnic group, in the sense of sharing a common German culture, descent and speaking the German language as Icelanders are the Nation or Ethnic group of Iceland descended primarily from Norsemen of Scandinavia. The Faroese or Faroe Islanders ( Føroyingar) are the people of the Faroe Islands in Northern Europe of Norse and Celtic The English people (from the adjective in Englisc) are a Nation and Ethnic group native to England who predominantly speak English The Germanic peoples are a historical group of Indo-European -speaking peoples originating in Northern Europe and identified by their use of the Germanic The Kingdom of Denmark ( ˈd̥ænmɑɡ̊ (archaic ˈd̥anmɑːɡ̊ commonly known as Denmark, is a country in the Scandinavian region of northern Europe
- Members of the Danish ethnic minority in Southern Schleswig, a former Danish province. The Danish minority in Southern Schleswig, Germany, has existed by this name since 1920 when the Schleswig Plebiscite split the German-ruled
- Anyone whose mother tongue is Danish. A first language (also mother tongue, native language, arterial language, or L1) is the language a human being learns from birth Danish ( d̥ænsɡ̊ is one of the North Germanic languages (also called Scandinavian languages a sub-group of the Germanic branch of the
- Nationals or citizens of Denmark, which also includes a German minority in South Jutland. Nationality is a relationship between a Person and their State of Origin, Culture, association Affiliation and/or Loyalty The German people (Deutsche are an Ethnic group, in the sense of sharing a common German culture, descent and speaking the German language as Short description of South Jutland South Jutland county is also known as Northern Schleswig ( Danish: Nordslesvig, German: Nordschleswig
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Origins
The current Danes are descended from an ancient North Germanic tribe originating and residing in Scania and on the Danish islands, the Danes (Dani) of e. Scania ( in Swedish and Danish) is a geographical region on the southernmost tip of the Scandinavian peninsula, a traditional province ( This is an incomplete list of Islands of Denmark. Excluding Greenland and Faroe, there are 444 named islands of which 76 are inhabited g. Beowulf. Beowulf is an Old English Heroic epic poem of anonymous authorship dating as recorded in the Nowell Codex manuscript from between Several other ethnic components exist in what is today the kingdom of Denmark. The Kingdom of Denmark ( ˈd̥ænmɑɡ̊ (archaic ˈd̥anmɑːɡ̊ commonly known as Denmark, is a country in the Scandinavian region of northern Europe The modern peoples of Jutland descend from the Jutes from Jutland, and their proto-Jutish ancestral tribes, including the Cimbri, who resided in Jutland. This article is about the region of Denmark. For the World War I naval battle see Battle of Jutland. The Jutes, Iuti, or Iutae were a Germanic people who according to Bede were one of the three most powerful Germanic peoples of the time This article is about the region of Denmark. For the World War I naval battle see Battle of Jutland. Jutlandic or Jutish (Danish jysk or in old spelling jydsk) is a term for the western Dialects of Danish, spoken on the The Cimbri were a Celtic or Germanic tribe who together with the Teutones and the Ambrones threatened the Roman Republic in the late This article is about the region of Denmark. For the World War I naval battle see Battle of Jutland. The Dani were not mentioned by Tacitus, whose famous work Germania mentions the Gothones (Geats and/or Goths?). Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (ca 56 &ndash ca 117 was a senator and a Historian of the Roman Empire. Geats, Geatas, Gautar, Goths, Gotar, Gøtar, Götar were a North Germanic tribe inhabiting Götaland They seem to be, however, mentioned by Jordanes and Procopius, as the Dani. Jordanes (also Jordanis or even Iornandes) was a 6th century Roman Bureaucrat, who turned his hand to History later in life Procopius of Caesarea ( Προκόπιος ο Καισαρεύς, c The name Dani is the etymological root of Dane. Jordanes maintains that the Dani were of the same stock as the Suetidi (Swedes, Suithiod?) and expelled the Heruli and took their lands. The Heruli (spelled variously in Latin and Greek) were a nomadic Germanic people, who were subjugated by the Ostrogoths Huns and If Tacitus simply did not overlook the Dani, and if Jordanes's information was correct, it is possible that they first appeared, as an off-shoot of the Swedes, sometime in the 2nd or 3rd century A. D. There are several different legendary accounts of the foundation of Denmark. One of the legendary accounts found in the Chronicle of Lejre tells that a ruler of Zealand with name Dan had raised an army and saved his people from an invasion by the Roman Emperor Augustus Caesar, that the Jutes, the men of Funen and the Scanian Provinces also accepted him as king, whence the resultant expanded country of Denmark and Danes was named after him. Chronicon Lethrense ( Danish: Lejrekrøniken English: Chronicle of Lejre /Leire) is a small Danish medieval work from the Zealand (also Sealand Danish: Sjælland;) is the largest Island (7031 km² of Denmark (excluding Greenland Dan is the name of one or more legendary kings of the Danes in medieval Scandinavian texts Augustus ( Latin: IMPERATOR·CAESAR·DIVI·FILIVS·AVGVSTVS September 23 63 BC – August 19 AD 14) born Gaius Octavius Thurinus, was Funen ( Danish: Fyn; ˈfyːˀn with a size of 2984 km² (1152 sq This region should not be confused with Skånland in Norway Official status When Skåneland was an official entity in its original Danish Dan as one or more ancient kings of the Danes are also written in other Nordic sagas. The sagas (from Icelandic saga, plural sögur) are stories about ancient Scandinavian and Germanic history about early Viking voyages
Danes in Denmark
- See also: History of Denmark
Almost five million ethnic Danes live in Denmark today. This article covers the history of the Kingdom of Denmark and of the areas comprising modern-day Denmark. [1] A minority of approx. 50,000 Danes live in Southern Schleswig in Germany, a former Danish territory, forming around 10% of the local population. Southern Schleswig is a name for the geographical area covering the thirty or forty northernmost kilometers of Germany, where Germany borders upon Denmark. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. In Denmark, the latter group is often referred to as De danske syd for grænsen (literally: the Danes south of the (Danish-German) border) or sydslesvigere (South Schleswigers).
The Danish Nation in a political context
Det danske folk (The Danish people) as a concept, played an important role in 19th century ethnic nationalism and refers to self-identification rather than a legal status. Ethnic nationalism is a form of Nationalism wherein the " Nation " is defined in terms of Ethnicity. Use of the term is most often restricted to a historical context; the historic German-Danish struggle regarding the status of the Duchy of Schleswig vis-à-vis a Danish nation-state. A duchy is a territory fief, or domain ruled by a Duke or Duchess. For the online game see Jennifer Government NationStates. The nation-state is a certain form of State that derives its legitimacy It describes people of Danish nationality, both in Denmark and elsewhere. Nationality is a relationship between a Person and their State of Origin, Culture, association Affiliation and/or Loyalty The Kingdom of Denmark ( ˈd̥ænmɑɡ̊ (archaic ˈd̥anmɑːɡ̊ commonly known as Denmark, is a country in the Scandinavian region of northern Europe Most importantly, ethnic Danes in both Denmark proper and the former Danish Duchy of Schleswig. The Kingdom of Denmark ( ˈd̥ænmɑɡ̊ (archaic ˈd̥anmɑːɡ̊ commonly known as Denmark, is a country in the Scandinavian region of northern Europe A duchy is a territory fief, or domain ruled by a Duke or Duchess. Excluded from this definition are people from the formerly Norwegian Faroe Islands and Greenland as well as members of the German minority as well as members of other ethnic minorities. Norway ( Norwegian: Norge ( Bokmål) or Noreg ( Nynorsk) officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Constitutional The Faroe Islands or Faeroe Islands or simply Faroe(s or Faeroes (Føroyar meaning " Sheep Islands" Færøerne Old Norse Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat meaning "Land of the Greenlanders" Grønland is a self-governing Danish Province located between the
The term should not be confused with the legal concept of nationality, danske statsborgere (Danish nationals) i. Nationality is a relationship between a Person and their State of Origin, Culture, association Affiliation and/or Loyalty e. individuals holding Danish citizenship.
See also
References
- ^ a b Danmarks Statistik (pdf, written in Danish) reports that Denmark, per April 1, 2007, has 483,390 inhabitants of foreign inheritance out of 5,451,826 total inhabitants. This is a list of well known Danes: Actors See also List of Danish actors Maya Ababadjani, (1984- adult performer Danish ( d̥ænsɡ̊ is one of the North Germanic languages (also called Scandinavian languages a sub-group of the Germanic branch of the Events 527 - Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. That amounts to an estimate of 4,968,436 ethnic Danish people on April 1, 2007. Events 527 - Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. The number of holders of Danish citizenship (disregarding ethnic background) was 5,167,996 at the same date.
- ^ The 2000 American census reports that the United States, in the 2000 census, has 1,430,897 inhabitants of Danish ancestry.
- ^ (List of Canadians by ethnicity, 2001 figure)
- ^ The ABS estimates in a 2003 study that there are between 50,000 and 150,000 people claiming Danish ancestry living in Australia. This is a list of Canadian residents ( Citizens, Landed immigrants and non-citizen temporary residents by the ethnic origin(s they chose to list on their The middle number has been used, and no change since 03 has been assumed.
- ^ National minorities at the Federal Foreign Office of Germany
- ^ Statistics Sweden
- ^ Danish Immigrants to the UK (2001)
- ^ Spanish National Statistics Institute
- ^ The CIA World Factbook reports that Greenland, in a July 2005 estimate, has 56,375 inhabitants. This page lists State Secretaries for Foreign Affairs under the German Empire (1871-1919 Reich Ministers of Foreign Affairs (1919-1945 and Federal Ministers of Foreign The share of Danes was in 2000 estimated to be just below 12%. Taking for granted that the two ethnic groups have developed equally from 2000 to 2005, this adds up to an estimate just below 6765 Danish people in July 2005.
- ^ Statistics New Zealand
- ^ Population by country of birth 1981-2006 by country and year: Denmark, 2006. Statistics Iceland (English version) (31 December 2006). Events 406 – Vandals, Alans and Suebians cross the Rhine, beginning an invasion of Gallia. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Retrieved on 2008-03-06. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1079 - Omar Khayyám completes the Iranian calendar. 1454 - Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of
- ^ CSO Ireland - 2006 Census
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