In June 1196 Agnes married Philip II of France, who had repudiated his second wife Ingeborg of Denmark in 1193.

During the Danish civil war, Denmark had been open to coastal raids by the Wends.

The pirates had raided the Danish coasts during the civil war of Sweyn III, Canute V, and Valdemar, to the point where at the accession of Valdemar one-third of Denmark lay wasted and depopulated.

By October 2007 bluetongue had become a serious threat in Scandinavia and Switzerland and the first outbreak in Denmark was reported.

The three Danes had embarked, at first successfully, on marketing software first from Denmark, and later from Ireland, before running into some challenges at the time when they met Philippe Kahn.

Denmark has long had good relations with other nations.

He had accompanied as canon Diego de Acebo, Bishop of Osma on a diplomatic mission to Denmark, to arrange the marriage between the son of King Alfonso VIII of Castile and a niece of King Valdemar II of Denmark.

There were some attempts to declare complete independence in this period, but the UK had given an undertaking not to interfere in the internal affairs of the Faroe Islands nor to act without the permission of a liberated Denmark.

By the early 21st century, weakness in the Faroese economy had been eliminated and, accordingly, many minds turned once again to the possibility of independence from Denmark.

By the beginning of the Civil War, Austria-Hungary, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland had recognized Finnish independence.

Svend Aagesen's history of Denmark, Brevis Historia Regum Dacie ( circa 1186 ), states that Saxo had decided to write about " The king-father and his sons ," which would be King Sweyn Estridson, in Books 11, 12, and 13.

It is thought that Shakespeare never read Gesta Danorum, and instead had access to an auxiliary version of the tale describing the downfall of the Prince of Denmark, whose real name-Amleth-was used in anagram by Shakespeare for Hamlet.

By January 1944, Germany had diplomatic relations with only a handful of countries: Argentina, Ireland, Vichy France, the Salo Republic in Italy, Occupied Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Croatia, Bulgaria, Switzerland, the Holy See, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Thailand, Japan, and the Japanese puppet states of Manchukuo and the Wang Jingwei regime in China.

At the time, the union between Sweden and Norway under one monarch, together with the fact that King Frederick VII of Denmark had no male heir, gave rise to the idea of reuniting the countries of the Kalmar Union, except for Finland.

By that date, the following nations had deposited instruments of definitive adherence to the pact: Afghanistan, Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, China, Cuba, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, Guatemala, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Liberia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Romania, the Soviet Union, the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, Siam, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey.

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 Denmark — and commercial pressure encouraged the development of a new canal.

The current university was however not founded until 1666 after Sweden had won Scania in the 1658 peace agreement with Denmark.

Von Trier has had a number of his films featured at the Cannes Film Festival over the course of his career, and each time has insisted on driving from Denmark to France for the festival and back.

* Denmark had officially declared having 6 factories producing land mines in 1995 but production ceased since ratification of the Ottawa treaty.

Viking raiders always had the option to fallback in the face of a superior force or stubborn defence and then reappear to attack other locations or retreat to their bases in what is now Sweden, Denmark, Norway and their Atlantic colonies.

At this point the Scandinavians had entered their medieval period and consolidated their kingdoms of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.

Princess Dagmar and her ill-fated fiance Tsarevich Nicholas. The marriage of Princess Dagmar of Denmark to Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovitch. The Anichkov Palace in 1862. The rise of Slavophile ideology in the Russian Empire led Alexander II of Russia to search for a bride for the heir apparent, Tsesarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich of Russia, in countries other than the German states that had traditionally provided consorts for the tsars.

She had lived for twenty-eight years in Russia, including thirteen as Empress, and thirty-four years of widowhood still awaited her, the last ten in exile in Denmark.

:* Denmark: two entities

Military of Denmark Danish military dog tags dog tags are a small metallic plate, designed to be broken into two pieces.

Denmark and Poland have still not agreed on the location of the maritime border between the two countries.

Denmark supports a border halfway between the two countries ; Poland wants to be awarded an even greater share of the Baltic Sea.

This language began to undergo new changes that did not spread to all of Scandinavia, which resulted in the appearance of two similar dialects, Old West Norse ( Norway and Iceland ) and Old East Norse ( Denmark and Sweden ).

Old East Norse is in Sweden called Runic Swedish and in east Denmark Runic Danish, but until the 12th century, the dialect was roughly the same in the two countries.

Danish is the national language of Denmark, and one of two official languages of the Faroes ( alongside Faroese ).

As well as TU / e and Delft University of Technology, the top 10 also includes two universities in Japan ( Tokyo Institute of Technology and Keio University in Tokyo ), two in Sweden ( University of Gothenburg and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm ), and one each in Denmark ( DTU Technical University of Denmark in Lyngby ), Finland ( University of Helsinki ), Norway ( Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim ) and the USA ( Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York ).

This is for two reasons: Firstly, many ethnic Faroese live in Denmark and few who are born there return to the Faroes with their parents or as adults.

Denmark and Belgium were the two largest participants in the Germanic-SS program.

During 1979 and early 1980, eight more ships were added, including six built in Yugoslavia and two in Denmark.

Just two months before their meeting, Prince William of Denmark and Norway, King William III's nephew and son of the future Queen Anne, died.

In Denmark tabloids in the British sense are known as ' formiddagsblade ' ( before-noon newspapers ), the two biggest being BT and Ekstra Bladet.

Miniatures of two different types of longships, on display at the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Denmark.

Denmark immediately capitulated, and despite Allied support, Norway was conquered within two months.

The winner of the ' one hand ' competition in 1896 was Launceston Elliott, while the winner of the ' two hands ' event was Viggo Jensen of Denmark.

* April 26 – Treaty of Commerce and Navigation signed between Brazil and Denmark, establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries.

* April 26, 1828 – Treaty of Commerce and Navigation signed between Brazil and Denmark, establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries.

The first leg of the tour would consist of two warm-up gigs in Barcelona in early June and then shows in Holland, Denmark, Hungary, Germany and France.

Juan Gris, a new addition to the Salon scene, exhibited his Portrait of Picasso ( Art Institute of Chicago ), while Metzinger's two showings included La Femme au Cheval ( The Rider, Woman with a horse ) 1911-1912 ( Statens Museum for Kunst, National Gallery of Denmark ).

The family also provided two Holy Roman Emperors ( 1328 / 1742 ), one King of the Romans ( 1400 ), two Anti-Kings of Bohemia ( 1619 / 1742 ), one King of Hungary ( 1305 ), one King of Denmark and Norway ( 1440 ) and a King of Greece ( 1832 – 1862 ).