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.

There are approximately 15, 000-20, 000 Roma people with historical ties to Denmark, excluding recent immigrants and their immediate descendants.

The legend of Der Erlkönig appears to have originated in fairly recent times in Denmark and Goethe based his poem on " Erlkönigs Tochter " (" Erlkönig's Daughter "), a Danish work translated into German by Johann Gottfried Herder.

In recent years, Michael has been the most popular name in the Philippines, the second most popular name in Finland ( Mikael ) and ranks among the top ten names in Denmark ( Mikkel ) and Ireland ( Mícheál ).

He was elected partly because a large part of the Swedish Army, in view of future complications with Russia, were in favour of electing a soldier, and partly because Bernadotte was also very popular in Sweden, owing to the kindness he had shown to the Swedish prisoners during the recent war with Denmark.

While historically Peter's planned war against Denmark was seen as being a political failure, recent scholarship has portrayed it as part of a pragmatic plan to expand Russian power westwards — he saw gaining territory and influence in Denmark and Northern Germany as more useful to Russia than taking East Prussia.

The third most recent Princess of Wales, later Alexandra of Denmark | Queen Alexandra, the longest-serving Princess of Wales to date.

In recent years it has started to breed in lowland areas again, e. g., in Sweden and Denmark.

* The Netherlands film board's comparison of film classifications issued for twelve recent films by the classification boards of the UK, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Denmark, and Sweden.

The older type, named after the more recent type, is made of bronze, dates to the Bronze Age and was often found in pairs, deposited in bogs, mainly in Denmark and Germany.

" Econometric analysis by Jeffery Frankel and Menzie Chinn in 2006 suggests the euro may replace the U. S. dollar as the major reserve currency by 2020 if ( 1 ) the remaining EU members, including the UK and Denmark, adopt the euro by 2020 or ( 2 ) the recent depreciation trend of the dollar persists into the future.

She has become one of the best-known politicians in Denmark during recent years, both for her vocal and unwavering stance against multiculturalism and immigration, and for her parliamentary support for the center-right governments of Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Lars Løkke Rasmussen from 2001 to 2011.

In recent decades, the less specific division between Eastern and Western Denmark has also become common, for example when describing logistic, economic and political patterns.

In recent years, Denmark has made a mark as a strong cycling nation, with Bjarne Riis winning Tour de France in 1996, and Michael Rasmussen reaching King of the Mountains status, in the Tour 2005 and 2006.

In his recent ( 2010, Harvill Secker ) novel I Curse the River of Time ( translated into English by Charlotte Barslund, with the author ), award-winning Norwegian novelist Per Petterson describes a small ferry sailing between Norway and Denmark with the name Holger Danske ; one of the main characters-a dying Danish woman going home-feels accepted and understood by its crew.

Prince Christian was perhaps, by descent, the most Danish Prince of the Danish Royal Dynasty in his generation ( which was the generation when Denmark came to its most recent succession crisis, cf details accounted at his cousin's article: Louise of Hesse ).

As a result, in recent years Danish chefs have helped to put Denmark on the world gastronomic map, with several Michelin-starred restaurants in Copenhagen and the provinces.

The most recent run of it has been on TV2 Denmark during the children's TV show Sesamgade ( which also features Elmo ).

Some European countries have abandoned this kind of tax in the recent years: Austria, Denmark ( 1995 ), Germany ( 1997 ), Sweden ( 2007 ), and Spain ( 2008 ).

DR is funded by the levying of a broadcast receiving licence fee, payable in Denmark by all owners of radios, television sets, and, in recent years, computers and other devices capable of receiving DR's video content, whether or not they use DR's services.

With increased focus on climate change mitigation, the re-use of waste as a resource and new technological approaches which have lowered capital costs, anaerobic digestion has in recent years received increased attention among governments in a number of countries, among these the United Kingdom ( 2011 ), Germany and Denmark ( 2011 ).

Based in Lisburn, the band is representative of Northern Ireland with membership spanning the country, but in recent years has attracted members from as far afield as Australia, New Zealand, Canada, USA, Denmark, France, Scotland, England, and of course the north and south of Ireland, all of whom have travelled great distances specifically to play with the band.

The most recent " Euro Choir " travelled to France, Germany, Denmark and Iceland, performing at the Llangollen International Eisteddfod, Notre Dame de Paris and at locations all around Europe, to great popularity and recognition.

" A ten volume account ( The Fifth Thule Expedition 1921-1924 ( 1946 )) of ethnographic, archaeological and biological data was collected, and many artifacts are still on display in museums in Denmark.

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 ).

The archaeological study of shell middens began in Denmark in the latter half of the 19th century.

Other cases of coffin birth at archaeological sites have been described, such as in 1978 at a Neolithic site in Germany, at a medieval site in Denmark in 1982, and in 2009 at an Early Christian period site at Fingal, Ireland.

The castle was reclaimed from the sands, first by King Frederik VII in 1849, and then by the National Museum of Denmark excavations in 1972.

Recent excavations show a local continuity going back to ( at least ) 5600 BC, when burial practices resembled the contemporary gravefields in Denmark and South Sweden " in all details ", suggesting only part of a diverse ancestral " Ertebølle "- like heritage was locally continued into the later ( Middle Neolithic ) Swifterbant tradition ( 4200 – 3400 BC ).

That remained the state of affairs until the late 1960s when Harald Loe ( at the time a professor at the Royal Dental College in Aarhus, Denmark ) demonstrated that a chlorhexidine compound could prevent the build-up of dental plaque.

He grew up at the castle of his father, and was brought up alongside his older brother Esbern Snare and the young prince Valdemar, who later became King Valdemar I of Denmark.

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.

When Valdemar returned to Denmark, he was convinced into strengthening the Danevirke fortifications at the German border, with the support of Absalon.

In 1940, shortly after the German occupation of Denmark, Bohr began his physics degree at the University of Copenhagen.

A stay at the court of Svend Estridson gave him the opportunity to find information about the history and geography of Denmark, and the Scandinavian countries.

It premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having been published earlier that month.

A Doll's House received its world premiere on 21 December 1879 at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, with Betty Hennings as Nora and Emil Poulsen as Torvald.

Stroustrup has a master's degree in mathematics and computer science ( 1975 ) from the University of Aarhus, Denmark, and a Ph. D. in computer science ( 1979 ) from the University of Cambridge, England, where he was a student at Churchill College.

Lobbying at the 1995 Basel conference by LDCs, Greenpeace and key European countries such as Denmark, led to a decision to adopt the Basel Ban Amendment to the Basel Convention.

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.

* The Bestiaire of Philippe de Thaon at the National Library of Denmark.

* The Bestiary of Anne Walshe at the National Library of Denmark.

The Association of Blood Donors of Denmark precludes potential donors who have spent a cumulative time of at least 12 months in the United Kingdom between 1 January 1980 and 31 December 1996.

* 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, held at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark

Harlequin and Columbina | Columbine from the mime theater at Pantomimeteatret | Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen, Denmark

Original located at Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark

However, if one examines the few existing foreign sources about Denmark from the 13th to 15th centuries, it is apparent that, at least from foreign point of view ; the national symbol of Denmark was not a red-and-white banner but the royal coat of arms ( three blue lions on a golden shield.

It ends in Helsingborg in Sweden, at the port for the ferry to Elsinore in Denmark.

Denmark retained possession of the Faroes at the Peace of Kiel in 1814, but lost continental Norway.

Finland is the only Nordic country to have joined the Eurozone ; Denmark and Sweden have retained their traditional currencies, whereas Iceland and Norway are not members of the EU at all.