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Denmark and borders
The non-German Germanic languages language group ( 0. 5 %) like Danish, Dutch and Frisian were located in the north and northwest of the empire, near the borders with Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg.
The geographical area today covers the thirty or forty northernmost kilometers of Germany up to the Flensburg Fjord, where it borders Denmark.
Alarmed at the Russian troops concentrating near their borders, unable to find any allies to resist Russian aggression, and short of money to fund a war, the government of Denmark threatened in late June to invade the free city of Hamburg in northern Germany to force a loan from it.
After the defeat in the Battle of Dybbøl, the Danes were unable to defend the borders of Schleswig, then had to retreat to Denmark proper, and finally were pushed out of the entire Jutland peninsula.
Denmark borders one eurozone member, Germany, and one EU member, Sweden, obliged to join the euro in the future.
In 2003, a free quota ( for personal use ) was allowed when travelling into Sweden ( from another EU country ), resulting in lower sales for Systembolaget, especially in Scania, which borders Denmark.
The treaty of 1660 established political borders between Denmark, Sweden and Norway which have lasted to the present day, and secured the Swedish dominium maris baltici.
In the 1974 novel Royal Flash by George Macdonald Fraser, Ruritania is claimed to be a fictional country based on the ( equally fictional ) Duchy of Strackenz that borders Germany and Denmark, and the events of The Prisoner of Zenda were simply imitations of the adventures of Harry Paget Flashman whilst in Strackenz.
The British invasion of Norway and Germany's counter-attack on, and occupation of both Norway and Denmark, coupled with the fact that Finland was battling the Soviets, made Sweden's position extremely tenuous, in that countries on both sides of the European conflict were poised on Sweden's borders and could potentially strike at any moment.
In Denmark for example, Munksgaard and Pedersen ( 2001 ) report that a significant amount of power and other energy-intensive commodities are traded across Danish borders, and that between 1966 and 1994 the Danish foreign trade balance in terms of CO < sub > 2 </ sub > developed from a 7 Mt deficit to a 7 Mt surplus, compared to total emissions of approximately 60 Mt .< ref > Munksgaard, J. and K. A. Pedersen ( 2001 ).
Typical examples of this are the borders between Ukraine and Russia, between Norway and Denmark / Sweden / Finland / Russia, and between Denmark and Germany.
Kongens Lyngby borders: Brede, site of the Technical University of Denmark ; the municipality of Gentofte ( the most affluent in Denmark ); Sorgenfri, where the Danish Prime Minister's official residence, Marienborg, lies ; and the Gladsaxe municipality.
Thirdly, every man knows where the borders are located, that Denmark and Holstein are separated ; even the language in Southern Jutland is Danish to this day.
The order of the Brothers of the Sword had conquered Southern Estonia whilst Denmark had taken the North, and the two agreed to divide Estonia, but quarreled over the exact borders.
By 1970 it was apparent that federal responsibility was required for further wildlife management issues, such as mammals crossing the International Boundary with the United States, as well as Canada's maritime borders with France ( St. Pierre and Miquelon ), Denmark ( Greenland ), Russia and Norway.
The agreement between Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden to remove passport control at the internal Nordic borders, was signed on 12 July 1957 in Copenhagen and came into force on 1 May 1958.

Denmark and both
Indonesia, South Korea, China, and Malaysia along with Denmark are among the nations that have consistently produced world-class players in the past few decades, with China being the greatest force in both men's and women's competition in recent years.
Denmark also strongly supported American operations in Afghanistan and has contributed both monetarily and materially to the ISAF.
* Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and her husband own and have owned a large array of dachshunds, both smooth and wirehaired.
The term Aappalaartoq ( meaning " the red ") is also used for both the Greenlandic flag and the flag of Denmark.
Much of the play's Protestantism derives from its location in Denmarkboth then and now a predominantly Protestant country, though it is unclear whether the fictional Denmark of the play is intended to mirror this fact.
When Denmark refused, Austria and Prussia invaded, commencing the Second war of Schleswig and Denmark was forced to cede both duchies.
Ernst August was a second cousin of Sophia's mother Elizabeth Stuart, as they were both great-grandchildren of Christian III of Denmark.
Telia Broadband was relaunched in 2008 because of the need for TeliaSonera to have both mobile and broadband in all of their home markets ( Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland ).
Meanwhile, Sweden and Denmark, both Lutheran kingdoms, sought to assist the Protestant cause in the Empire, and wanted to gain political and economic influence there as well.
Some of the most important trading ports during the period include both existing and ancient cities such as Aarhus ( Denmark ), Ribe ( Denmark ), Hedeby ( Germany ), Vineta ( Pomerania ), Truso ( Poland ), Kaupang ( Norway ), Birka ( Sweden ), Bordeaux ( France ), York ( England ), Dublin ( Ireland ) and Aldeigjuborg ( Russia ).
In the other main round group, Iceland became the third Nordic team to qualify after defeating Germany in the final match, but both Denmark and Iceland were soundly beaten in the semi-finals – Denmark lost 23 – 28 to Germany, while Sweden defeated Iceland by 11 goals.
At the time, the Kingdom of Denmark extended across both sides of the Sound, and on the eastern shore the Helsingborg Castle had been in existence since the Middle Ages.
In 1902 Krarup both wrote his paper on this subject and saw the installation of the first cable between Helsingør ( Denmark ) and Helsingborg ( Sweden ).
Adam of Bremen's claim regarding Otto I and Harald appears to have been inspired by an attempt to manufacture a historical reason for the archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen to claim jurisdiction over Denmark ( and thus the rest of Scandinavia ); in the 1070s, the Danish King was in Rome asking for Denmark to have its own arch-bishop, and Adam's account of Harald's supposed conversion ( and baptism of both him and his " little son " Sweyn, with Otto serving as Sweyn's godfather ) is followed by the unambiguous claim that " At that time Denmark on this side of the sea, which is called Jutland by the inhabitants, was divided into three dioceses and subjected to the bishopric of Hamburg.
SDU Odense is considered the main campus of the University of Southern Denmark, both because of its relative size and because the central administration of the university is situated there.
As Denmark and Germany are both part of the Schengen Area, there are no controls at the border.
Since Holstein was legally part of the German Confederation, and ethnically entirely German, with no Danish population, use of that name implied that both provinces should belong to Germany, and their connection with Denmark weakened or altogether severed.
The German Emperor Wilhelm II, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Grand Duke Ernest Louis of Hesse, Duke Charles Edward of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Duke Ernst August of Brunswick were Edward's nephews ; Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain, Crown Princess Margaret of Sweden, Crown Princess Marie of Romania, Crown Princess Sophia of Greece, Empress Alexandra of Russia, Grand Duchess Alexandra of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Duchess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen were his nieces ; Haakon VII of Norway was both his nephew by marriage and his son-in-law ; George I of Greece and Frederick VIII of Denmark were his brothers-in-law ; Albert I of Belgium, Charles I and Manuel II of Portugal, and Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria were his second cousins.

Denmark and Baltic
His policy of expansion was to give Denmark the dominion of the Baltic for three generations.
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.
Strategically located in the Baltic Sea, Bornholm has been a bone of contention usually ruled by Denmark, but also by Lübeck and Sweden.
The territory of Denmark includes the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea and the rest of metropolitan Denmark, but excludes the Faroe Islands and Greenland.
Its position gives Denmark complete control of the Danish Straits ( Skagerrak and Kattegat ) linking Baltic and North Seas.
Denmark supports a border halfway between the two countries ; Poland wants to be awarded an even greater share of the Baltic Sea.
He notes that the order came to Denmark in the latter half of the 12th century and during the next centuries spread to major cities, like Odense, Viborg, Horsens, Ribe and their headquarters in Slagelse, so by the time of the Baltic crusade, the symbol was already a known symbol in Denmark.
During the 19th century, after Schleswig-Holstein had come under the government of Prussia ( from 1871 the German Empire ) following the Second Schleswig War in 1864, a combination of naval interests — the German navy wanted to link its bases in the Baltic and the North Sea without the need to sail around Denmarkand commercial pressure encouraged the development of a new canal.
This meant that these battleships could travel from the Baltic Sea to the North Sea without having to go around Denmark.
In 1914 the Baltic Exhibition was held in Malmö which consisted of exhibitions about industry, art and crafts from Sweden, Denmark, Germany and Russia.
The Northern Crusades or Baltic Crusades were crusades undertaken by the Christian kings of Denmark and Sweden, the German Livonian and Teutonic military orders, and their allies against the pagan peoples of Northern Europe around the southern and eastern shores of the Baltic Sea.
The Christian kingdoms of Denmark and Sweden were also greedy for conquests on the Eastern shores of the Baltic.
A version known as Baltic porter is brewed in Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Denmark and Sweden.
* Sweden and Denmark were interested in gaining control over northern German states bordering the Baltic Sea.
During the 17th century, after winning wars against Denmark, Russia, and Poland, Sweden – Finland ( with scarcely more than 1 million inhabitants ) emerged as a great power by taking direct control of the Baltic region, which was Europe's main source of grain, iron, copper, timber, tar, hemp, and furs.
The marriage, from Henry's perspective, was probably orchestrated to allow the Holy Roman Empire to claim control of Denmark and the western areas of the Baltic Sea.
As allies of the Carolingian kings and the empire of their Ottonian successors, the Obotrites fought from 808 to 1200 against the kings of Denmark, who wished to rule the Baltic region independently of the empire.
Being conquered by Danes and Germans in 1227, Estonia was ruled initially by Denmark in the north, by the Livonian Order, an autonomous part of the Monastic state of the Teutonic Knights and Baltic German ecclesiastical states of the Holy Roman Empire.
By the end of 2008, the country had a fleet of over 24, 000 locomotives, the most lines in the world, the fastest express train in service, and longest high speed track in the world .. UK, Denmark, and other countries in northern Europe that surround the Baltic Sea and North Sea, continue to develop their rapid expansion of off-shore wind farms.
Hanover gained Bremen-Verden, Brandenburg-Prussia incorporated the Oder estuary, Russia secured the Baltic provinces, and Denmark strengthened her position in Schleswig-Holstein.
Valdemar and Absalon built Denmark into a major power in the Baltic Sea, a power which later competed with the Hanseatic League, the counts of Holstein, and the Teutonic Knights for trade, territory, and influence throughout the Baltic.

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