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Bornholm was one of the three last Danish municipalities not belonging to a county — the others being Copenhagen and Frederiksberg.
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Bornholm and was
Bornholm Regional Municipality was not merged with other municipalities on 1 January 2007 as the result of the nationwide Kommunalreformen (" The Municipal Reform " of 2007 ), which is quite understandable, since the island, as can be seen on maps, is quite far from the rest of Denmark.
The first Danish single malt to go on sale was Lille Gadegård from Bornholm, in 2005.
He was born on the island of Bornholm.
Between 1900 and 1968, Nexø was connected with Rønne, the largest town on Bornholm, by a railway track.
In 1525, they took control of Bornholm as compensation for the fact that Denmark was unable to reimburse the large debts it had run up.
This important building was the centre of administration in Rønne and Borholm for many years, and was housed the courthouse and jail of Bornholm.
Notable landmarks include the Bornholm Museum, the Defence Museum ( Forsvarsmuseet ), the church ( Skt Nicolaj Kirke ), and the Smedegårds riding school in the southern part of town, and the lighthouse, which was built in 1880.
In 2006 there were thirteen traditional counties as well as three municipalities with county status ( the island of Bornholm, which was a county until 2003, became a regional municipality with county powers ).
Bornholm is the only part to represent Scania after the rest of the region was lost to Sweden in 1658.
In 1660, Bornholm was returned to Denmark.
* Gustaf Otto Stenbock ( 1658-1664 ) ( Bornholm was returned to Denmark in 1660.
After a devastating defeat, Denmark-Norway was forced to give up nearly half her territory to save the rest, the ceded lands comprising Blekinge, Bornholm, Bohuslän ( Båhuslen ), Scania ( Skåne ) and Trøndelag, as well as her claims to Halland.
The tradition was strongest in Bornholm, Gotland and Götaland and appears to have followed the Goths, during the 1st century, to the southern shore of the Baltic Sea, ( now Northern Poland ) where they are a characteristic of the Wielbark culture.
Denmark was forced to yield the provinces of Scania, Halland, Blekinge and the island of Bornholm.
The Swedish garrison of Bornholm was forced to surrender to Danish insurgents, with the commander killed.
However, the Danish statesman Hannibal Sehested negotiated a peace treaty without any direct involvement by foreign powers and the conflict was resolved with the Treaty of Copenhagen, where Sweden was forced to return Bornholm and Trøndelag to Denmark.
Michael Peter Ancher was born at Rutsker on the island of Bornholm.
Holger was send to Bornholm to learn to paint.
This resulted in a Swedish defeat, and as a result of the Treaty of Copenhagen ( 1660 ) Bornholm was returned to Denmark and the present border between the countries was established.
The place outside the Warsaw Pact nearest the bay was the Danish island of Bornholm, more than 100 km away.
After Jonathan Miller's visit to Bornholm, Denmark, Dido was performed in 2008 at the Rønne Theatre ( which had been built in 1823 ).
Bornholm and one
In 1819 under royal command he undertook a very successful geological expedition to Bornholm, one of the Danish islands, being one of three scientists in the expedition.
Although many of his works feature gothic elements, the first one which is considered to belong purely in the „ gothic fiction “ label is Ostrov Borngolm ( Island of Bornholm ) from 1793.
In June 2012 one male and six females were moved to the Danish island of Bornholm.
The army captain Rosenberg told a later inquiry that Creutz " almost had a paroxysm in the night " over of the conduct of Johan Bär ( one of his flag officers ) at Bornholm, and that he swore " never to go to serve at sea with such rascals ".
Bornholm and Danish
Bornholm (; Old Norse: Burgundaholmr, " the island of the Burgundians ") is a Danish island in the Baltic Sea located to the east of ( most of ) the rest of Denmark, south of Sweden, and north of Poland.
Bornholm Regional Municipality is the local authority ( Danish, kommune ) covering the entire island.
The Polish position is based on the argument that Poland owns a longer coast line than the Danish island of Bornholm.
The island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea also belongs to this group, but returned to Danish rule in 1660.
A few generations ago, the classical dialects spoken in the southern Swedish provinces could still be argued to be more Eastern Danish than Swedish, being similar to the dialect of Bornholm.
** Rugmelsgrød, a traditional dinner of the Danish island Bornholm, made of ryemeal and water.
It is named after the Danish island Bornholm where early cases occurred.
In 1933, Ejnar Sylvest gave a doctoral thesis describing a Danish outbreak of this disease on Bornholm Island entitled, " Bornholm disease-myalgia epidemica ", and this name has persisted.
A ferry sails from Sassnitz ferry port in Mukran to the Danish island of Bornholm, to Swedish Trelleborg, to Klaipeda in the Baltic states, to Baltijsk and to St. Petersburg.
The Danish TV-station TV2 has a local office ( TV2 / Bornholm ) in Aakirkeby.
Rønne is the largest town on the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea.
At Bornholm, on May 30, 1563, the Danish fleet fired on the Swedish navy.
* The immediate cession of the Danish province of Bornholm to Sweden.
Various authors have suggested that comparable Mediaeval buildings can be found in Europe ; in particular the Orphir Round Church on Orkney built in Scotland around 1115 and the round churches on the Danish island of Bornholm such as Østerlars Church dating from around 1160.
Danish lunch from the island of Bornholm.
Fish from Bornholm, Iceland and Greenland also has a special place in the Danish cuisine.
Within the previous SIL International classification of Scanian were the dialects in the province of Scania, some of the southern dialects of Halland ( halländska in Swedish ), the dialects of Blekinge ( blekingska in Swedish ) and the dialects of the Danish island of Bornholm ( bornholmsk in Danish ).
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