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In Scandinavia the amber road probably gave rise to the thriving Nordic Bronze Age culture, bringing influences from the Mediterranean Sea to the northernmost countries of Europe.
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Scandinavia and amber
For example, flint from Scandinavia and Valdai Hills, amber from Scandinavia and the Baltic region and slate from Scandinavia and Lake Onega found their ways into the Finnish archeological sites undes excavatons today and asbestos and soap stone from e. g. the area of Saimaa spread outside of Finland.
General term used to refer to a series of late Neolithic communities of the 3rd millennium BC living in Scandinavia, northern Germany, and the Low Countries that share the practice of single burial under barrows, the deceased usually being accompanied by a battle-axe, amber beads, and pottery vessels.
Finds suggest a fairly extensive exchange network: red slate originating from northern Scandinavia, asbestos from Lake Saimaa, green slate from Lake Onega, amber from the southern shores of the Baltic Sea and flint from the Valdai area in northwestern Russia.
Scandinavia and road
Furthermore, the Øresund Bridge connects the road and rail networks of Scandinavia with those of Central and Western Europe.
The construction of the Great Belt Fixed Link – which connects Zealand to Funen and thence to the Jutland Peninsula – and the Oresund Bridge have connected Central and Western Europe to Scandinavia by road and rail.
Kautokeino is located at road 93, part of the shortest and fastest route between western Finnmark and southern Scandinavia.
The distance to southern Scandinavia is considerably shorter over road 93 and northern Finland.
The part through Stockholm has very heavy traffic, including the most heavily trafficked road in Scandinavia, Essingeleden ( 160 000 vehicles / day ).
Scandinavia and probably
The earliest inhabitants of most of the land area that makes up today's Finland and Scandinavia were in all likehood hunter-gatherers whose closest successors in modern terms would probably be the Sami people ( formerly known as the Lapps ).
The well-preserved state of the shrine may be unique in Scandinavia: it was shaped like a platform with two " arms " of rocks having four erected poles in front of it where there was probably a wooden platform.
Although originally Thule was probably the name for Scandinavia, Virgil simply uses it as a proverbial expression for the edge of the known world, and his mention should not be taken as a substantial reference to Scandinavia.
Since, according to the learned researches of Sir William Jones, Odin and Buddha are probably the same person, it is curious to see the names of Bondvar, Wodansdag, and Votan designating in India, Scandinavia, and in Mexico the day of a brief period.
One, probably the eldest, Asser, was the first Archbishop of Lund ( 1104 – 1137 ) and also the first Archbishop of Scandinavia.
They are probably the oldest known relics of the fishing industry in Scandinavia.
" The " Proto-Nordic " human, Grant reasoned, probably evolved in eastern Germany, Poland and Russia, before migrating northward to Scandinavia.
It probably originated in Scandinavia, as a variant of Tafl.
Another parallel supports this derivation: Pliny the Elder's Saevo mountain range, probably meaning " sea land ", refers in part to Ranrike ( see under Scandinavia ).
It is probably a Wolverine based on these traits it shares with the animal native to arctic climates around the world, including Scandinavia.
Usage of the Younger Futhark is found in Scandinavia and Viking Age settlements abroad, probably in use from the 9th century onward.
This second outbreak of flagellants, with their incessant and repetitive Geisslerlieder spread far wider than the first, reaching England, Poland, and Scandinavia, and probably attracted a greater number of participants, although it did not last as long: most of the records of the occurrence are from 1349.
Producing tar from wood was known in ancient Greece, and has probably been used in Scandinavia since the Iron Age.
This probably reflects the volatile politics of Iron Age Scandinavia.
It is probably from the fourteenth century but takes place in 1029 when Scandinavia was still largely pagan, and it appears to preserve traditions of a pagan phallos cult, the vǫlsi ( see also blót ).
Dmitry fled to Koporye but, failing to win support of Novgorodians, had to retreat further northward, probably to Scandinavia.
In the 12th century, in Norman Sicily ( where the Normans probably brought the belief with them from Scandinavia ), the Arab geographer al-Idrisi in his famous Tabula Rogeriana mentioned Irlandah-al-Kabirah ( Great Ireland ).
Ysätters-Kajsa was a wind-troll that people used to believe in the Swedish province of Närke, probably the only one of her kind in Scandinavia.
Scandinavia and gave
In 822, he gave the legateship over the North ( Scandinavia ) to Ebbo, Archbishop of Rheims.
Not long after Louis Philippe left Scandinavia, Beata Caisa Wahlbom gave birth to a son, whom she named Erik.
O ' Donnell, in order to give Romero some additional work, gave the artist permission to adapt one of his short stories (" The Dark Angels ") as a graphic novel that was published in Scandinavia in 2002, later being reprinted in the U. S. in a special issue of Comics Revue.
The open discussions on an Allied expedition to northern Scandinavia, also without consent of the neutral Scandinavian countries, and the Altmark Incident on 16 February, alarmed the Kriegsmarine and Germany by threatening iron ore supplies and gave strong arguments for a German securing of the Norwegian coast.
A child prodigy, he gave a debut recital in Warsaw at the age of 5, and a long series of concerts throughout Europe and Scandinavia, culminating in a series of concerts in America in 1887-88 that elicited comparisons with the young Mozart and the young Mendelssohn.
These settlers gave the islands their name, Ireland being west of mainland Scandinavia.
The Scandinavian placenames Finnveden, Finnmark and the province of Finland ( which gave name to Finland ) are all thought to derive from Finn, an ancient Germanic word for the Finnic people inhabiting areas of Fenno-Scandia and Scandinavia.
The Roman Iron Age ( 1-400 ) is the name that Swedish archaeologist Oscar Montelius gave to a part of the Iron Age in Scandinavia, Northern Germany and the Netherlands.
During this period Scandinavia gave rise to the first known advanced civilization in this area following the Nordic Stone Age.
Scandinavia and rise
At the same time, some ethnic nationalist groups began to adopt pagan religions during the 20th century, leading to the rise of forms of Heathenry and Slavic neopaganism, which were centered primarily in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe.
With the rise of Christianity, centralized authority in Scandinavia and Germany eventually led to the Baltic crusades.
This policy caused a rise in anti-German sentiment throughout Scandinavia, since it was commonly believed that the Germans were allied with the Soviets.
Due to the effects of post-glacial rebound, the whole of Scandinavia started to rise at a considerable rate out of the ocean after the end of the last ice age.
Scandinavia and thriving
Because much of the former Surrey Docks had strong trade links to Scandinavia and the Baltic region the area is still home to a thriving Scandinavian community.
The major one is the British Formula Ford Championship operated by RacingLine Ltd, but there are thriving series of note in Australia, Holland, Scandinavia, Ireland, New Zealand, Canada, Asia, and South Africa.
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