The island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea also belongs to this group, but returned to Danish rule in 1660.

The national Coat of Arms of Estonia, three blue lions on a golden shield, is almost identical to the Coat of Arms of Denmark, and its origin can be traced directly back to King Valdemar II and Danish rule in Estonia 1219-1346.

Estonians have strong ties to the Nordic countries and Germany stemming from the strong cultural and religious influences gained over centuries during Danish, German and Swedish rule and settlement.

GDP per capita is similar to the average European economies but the economy is critically dependent upon substantial support from the Danish government, which supplies about half the revenues of the home rule government who in turn employ about 8, 000 Greenlanders out of a labor force of 40, 156 ( Jan. 2012 ).

Being part of the Kingdom of Denmark, the foreign relations of Greenland are handled in cooperation with the Danish government and Greenlandic home rule authority.

In 1978, Denmark granted home rule to Greenland, making it an equal member of the Danish Realm.

Tring and Danais became one, Dacorum, from ( Danis Corum or Danish rule harking back to a Viking not Saxon past ).

Among these, Icelandic and the closely related Faroese have changed the least from Old Norse in the last thousand years, although with Danish rule of the Faroe Islands, Faroese has also been influenced by Danish.

For the remainder of the period of Danish rule, the islands were not economically viable and significant transfers were made from the Danish state budgets to the authorities in the islands.

* Gotland passes under Danish rule.

Until 1060 the kings of Uppsala ruled most of modern Sweden except the southern and western coastal regions, which remained under Danish rule until the 17th century.

He had succeeded Cnut the Great's son Harthacnut, restoring the rule of the House of Wessex after the period of Danish rule since Cnut had conquered England in 1016.

Effective rule required keeping on terms with the three leading earls, but loyalty to the ancient house of Wessex had been eroded by the period of Danish rule, and only Leofric was descended from a family which had served Æthelred.

Harthacnut was the last Danish king to rule England.

The Knýtlinga saga treats the death of Harthacnut as the end of an ancient line of kings, and notes that he was the last Danish king to rule over England.

In 1773, Danish rule ended.

Under the Norwegian, and then Danish rule, government officials made Tórshavn their home.

His 37-year rule, the longest of a mature Swedish king so far ( subsequently passed by Gustav V and current Carl XVI Gustav ) saw a complete break with not only the Danish supremacy of the Union but also the Roman Catholic Church, whose assets were nationalised, with the Lutheran Church of Sweden established under his personal control.

The Swedish nobility grew increasingly unhappy with Danish rule and the union soon became merely a legal concept with little practical application.

However, Knut was the last Danish king to rule Norway for more than three centuries, and already in 1035, Olaf's son, Magnus the Good took the throne.

The legend states the origin of the flag to the Battle of Lyndanisse, also known as the Battle of Valdemar ( Danish: " Volmerslaget "), near Lyndanisse ( Tallinn ) in Estonia, on June 15, 1219.

* 1219 – Northern Crusades: Danish victory at the Battle of Lyndanisse ( modern-day Tallinn ) establishes the Danish Duchy of Estonia.

While the Swedes made only one failed foray into western Estonia in 1220, the Danish Fleet headed by King Valdemar II of Denmark had landed at the Estonian town of Lindanisse ( present-day Tallinn ) in 1219.

* June 15 – Battle of Lyndanisse: Danish crusaders led by King Waldemar II conquer Tallinn.

The lions became part of the greater coat of arms of Tallinn, the centre of Danish government in Estonia, and the knightages ( ger.

The Master of the Order and the magistrates of Tallinn learned from a captured German deserter that the Estonians had been promised military assistance from Sweden that had recently conquered several Danish territories in Scandinavia.

The subjects of the Danish king in Tallinn, severely weakened after the carnage in Harju and Viru, and fearful of the Swedish intentions, submitted Tallinn and other Danish dominions in Estonia under the protection of the Order.

The capital of Danish Estonia was Reval ( Tallinn ), founded at the place of Lyndanisse after the invasion of 1219.

Estonians still call their capital " Tallinn ", which according to an urban legend derives from Taani linna ( Danish town or castle ).

2008 – 09 would become a good year for the Wild Tigers in terms of cup competitions, making it to the quarter finals in the Danish Cup for the second time in their history, the club managed to improve on their previous European outing with wins over TVMK Tallinn and Queen of the South, to been convincingly knocked out by Greek side Olympiacos 0 – 7 aggregate.

* The Danish language, a North Germanic language used mostly in Denmark and Northern Germany

The last three books ( 14-16 ), describe Danish conquests on the south shore of the Baltic Sea and wars against Slavic peoples ( the Northern Crusades ), are very valuable for the history of West Slavic tribes ( Polabian Slavs, Pomeranians ) and Slavic paganism.

The concept of dividing pre-historical ages into systems based on metals extends far back in European history, but the present archaeological system of the three main ages: stone, bronze and iron, originates with the Danish archaeologist Christian Jürgensen Thomsen ( 1788 – 1865 ), who placed the system on a more scientific basis by typological and chronological studies, at first of tools and other artifacts present in the Museum of Northern Antiquities in Copenhagen ( later the National Museum of Denmark ).

* Danish Freefall Simulator Project – DFSP ( First indoor vertical wind tunnel in Northern Europe )

In 1721, when the Great Northern War ended, the dukes of Gottorf lost their power and their land became Danish crown land.

Lutefisk ( Norwegian ) or Lutfisk ( Swedish ) or Ludfisk ( Danish ) ( pronounced in Northern Norway, in Central and Southern Norway, in Sweden and in Finland ()) is a traditional dish of the Nordic countries.

# North Frisia or Northern Friesland ( German Nordfriesland ; Danish: Nordfrisland ) including areas in

Gobineau's basic concept, as further refined and developed in Nazism, places the black Aboriginal Australians and " African savages " at the bottom of the hierarchy, while the white Northern and Western European Aryans ( consisting of Germans, Finnish, Swedish, Icelanders, Norwegians, Danish, British, French, Northern Italians, Irish and Dutch ) were at the top ; white olive-skinned Southern Europeans ( consisting of the Spanish, Southern Italians, Greeks and Portuguese, i. e. those of what is called the Mediterranean race, which was regarded as another subrace of the Caucasian race ) in the upper middle ranks ; Slavs ( Even though the Slavs are white and of Indo-European ancestry, the Nazis placed them lower on the scale because they were regarded as primarily of the Alpine race rather than the Nordic race, and thus fit only to be peasants.

In 1871 the township was settled and named after Vice-Admiral Peter Tordenskjold, a Danish-Norwegian naval hero during the Great Northern War, by two Danish brothers.

Until January 1, 2007 Nørre Djurs municipality (" Northern Djursland ") was a municipality ( Danish, kommune ) in the former Aarhus County on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula in central Denmark.

In the 16th century, many Danes and Swedes still referred to North Germanic as a single language, which is stated in the introduction to the first Danish translation of the Bible and in Olaus Magnus ' A Description of the Northern Peoples.

An exception, however, is Northern Germany, and in particular the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, which was controlled by the kings of Denmark until the 19th century ( see: History of Schleswig-Holstein ) and still has a notable Danish minority.

Northern Swedish Pomerania with Rügen, which during the War came under Danish rule, was retained by Sweden.

Dark red: Northern Jutland ( Danish ).

Orange-Red: Northern Schleswig ( or Southern Jutland ) ( Danish ).

Following the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, section five of the Peace of Prague stated that the people of Northern Schleswig should be granted the right to a referendum on whether they would remain under Prussian rule or return to Danish rule.

Although there was, as a result, a Danish minority in Southern Schleswig and a German minority in Northern Schleswig, the minorities were granted rights to practice their language and culture, to such a degree that the division and minorities are not a political issue between Denmark and Germany.

The Treaty of Roskilde was concluded on 26 February ( OS ) or 8 March 1658 ( NS ) during the Second Northern War between Frederick III of Denmark – Norway and Charles X Gustav of Sweden in the Danish city of Roskilde.

As the Northern Wars progressed, Charles X Gustav of Sweden crossed the frozen straits from Jutland and occupied the Danish island of Zealand, with the invasion beginning on 11 February 1658.

Danish scholar Arne Søby Christensen on the other hand claims that the Getica was an entirely fabricated account, and that the origin of the Goths in the book is a construction based on popular Greek and Roman myths as well as a misinterpretation of recorded names from Northern Europe.

In 810, Gudfrid led 200 ships to plunder the Frisian coast, and forced the merchants and peasant to pay 100 pounds of silver and claimed Northern Frisia as Danish territory.