It is possible to search a portion of the Danish censuses online at the Dansk Demografisk Database, and also view scanned versions at Arkivalier Online.

In 2006 the Danish military budget was the fifth largest single portion of the Danish Government's total budget, significantly less than that of the Ministry of Social Affairs (~ 110 billion DKK ), Ministry of Employment (~ 67 billion DKK ), Ministry of the Interior and Health (~ 66 billion DKK ) and Ministry of Education (~ 30 billion DKK ) and only slightly larger than that of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (~ 14 billion DKK ).

Danish is widely spoken in Greenland, and an unknown portion of the native Greenlandic population has Danish as their first language.

In addition, there is a small community of Danish speakers in Southern Schleswig, the portion of Germany bordering Denmark, where it is an officially recognised regional language, just as German is north of the border.

A portion of the Danish army settled in Mercia, but at the beginning of 878 the remaining Danes mounted a winter invasion of Wessex, taking Alfred by surprise and overrunning much of the kingdom.

Danish and Norse attacks on southern Northumbria caused its power to falter and the northern portion became equally open to annexation by Scotland.

As Sweden in the 1713 Siege of Tönning had lost its influence on Holstein-Gottorp, Denmark could again subjugate the entire Slesvig to the Danish realm ; Holstein-Gottorps lost their lands in Schleswig, but continued as independent Dukes in their portion of Holstein.

Furthermore, the Schleswig and Holstein populations valued their separate status as well: a large portion of the duchy of Holstein was of German origin and spoke German in everyday life ; the population was more mixed in Schleswig, with a sizable Danish minority.

According to Snorri's saga, King Harald controlled large parts of Norway's southeast portion before the battle ; but other sources claim that the eastern portion of Norway was under the Danish king.

His elder brother king Frederick II of Denmark allotted him a portion of Schleswig, Sonderburg ( today Danish Sønderborg ) as his ducal seat.

However, Danish prosecutors have claimed that Tvind members cleverly channelled a portion of funds earmarked for charitable use into purchases of property and luxury items, offshore tax havens and private business investments, all controlled by Tvind's top leaders.

Contemporary furniture that is neither Danish nor straight-line modern but has sculptured pattern, many design facets, warmth, dignity and an effect of utter comfort and livability.

Danish tradition has preserved record of two governors of Schleswig, father and son, in their service, Frowinus ( Freawine ) and Wigo ( Wig ), from whom the royal family of Wessex claimed descent.

The term " multitasking " has become an international term, as the same word in many other languages such as German, Italian, Dutch, Danish and Norwegian.

The Danish prosodic feature stød is an example of a form of laryngealisation that has a phonemic function.

The Danish Defence, counting all branches and all departments, itself has an income equal to about 1 – 5 % of its expenditures, depending on the year.

More than 25 % of all Danish speakers live in the metropolitan area of the capital and most government agencies, institutions and major businesses keep their main offices in Copenhagen, something that has resulted in a very homogeneous national speech norm.

Today, influx of Standard Swedish and Standard Danish vocabulary has generally meant that Scanian and Bornholmian are closer to the modern national standards of their respective host nations than to each other.

The Bornholmian dialect has also maintained to this day many ancient features, such as a distinction between three grammatical genders, which the central Insular Danish dialects gave up during the 20th century.

Standard Danish has two genders and the definite form of nouns is formed by the use of suffixes, while Western Jutlandic has only one gender and the definite form of nouns uses an article before the noun itself, in the same fashion as West Germanic languages.

Whether the flag has its origins in a divine sign, a banner of a military order, an ecclesiastical banner, or perhaps something entirely different, Danish literature is no help before the early 15th century.

This image has been used to acknowledge a previously disputed theory that the cross found in Valdemar Atterdag's coats of arms located in his Danælog seal ( Rettertingsseglet ) from 1356 is indeed the cross from the Danish flag.

The name " Erlang ", attributed to Bjarne Däcker, has been understood as a reference to Danish mathematician and engineer Agner Krarup Erlang, and ( initially at least ) simultaneously as an abbreviation of " Ericsson Language ".

In a similar vein, the alf found in the fairy tale The Elf of the Rose by Danish author H. C. Andersen is so tiny that he can have a rose blossom for home, and has " wings that reached from his shoulders to his feet ".

It has often been suggested that Erlkönig is a mistranslation from the original Danish ellerkonge or elverkonge, which does mean " elf king ".

Since 2001, the Royal Danish Army has been involved in the War in Afghanistan as part of the ISAF.

The word friend itself has cognates in the other Germanic languages ; but the Scandinavian ones ( like Swedish frände, Danish frænde ) predominatly mean " relative " ( but may also mean soulmate ).

The present economy consists of a big public sector and comprehensive foreign trade, which has resulted in an economy with periods of strong growth, considerable inflation, unemployment problems and extreme dependence on capital inflow from Denmark and use of outside, mainly Danish, skilled labor.

While the Greenland Home Rule Government has primary sovereignty over mineral deposits on the mainland, oil resources are within the domain of the Danish exclusive economic zone.

* A researcher from the University of Copenhagen pointed out that for years, IKEA has named their cheap rugs after Danish places, while the more expensive and luxurious furniture was named after Swedish places.

With certain modifications, the most important of which were introduced later by Aasen himself, but also through a latter policy aiming to merge this Norwegian language with Dano-Norwegian, this language has become Nynorsk (" New Norwegian "), the second of Norway's two official languages ( the other being Bokmål, the Dano-Norwegian descendant of the Danish language used in Norway at Aasen's time ).

The American Krag-Jørgensen also has only a single locking lug, whereas the Norwegian and Danish versions effectively had two lugs.

Sweeping forwards, virtually without resistance, the 21 Danish squadrons reformed behind the French around the area of the Tomb of Ottomond, facing north across the plateau of Mont St André towards the exposed flank of Villeroi ’ s army.

Its primary tasks are ; NATO participation in accordance with the strategy of the alliance, detect and repel any sovereignty violation of Danish territory ( including Greenland and the Faroe Islands ), defence cooperation with non-NATO members, especially Central and East European countries, international missions in the area of conflict prevention, crises-control, humanitarian, peacemaking, peacekeeping, participate in Total Defence in cooperation with civilian resources and finally maintain a sizable force to execute these tasks at all times.

The Kattegat ( Danish, from Dutch, commonly used in English ), or Kattegatt ( Swedish ) is a sea area bounded by the Jutland peninsula and the Straits islands of Denmark on the west and south, and the provinces of Västergötland, Scania, Halland and Bohuslän in Sweden on the east.

There are movements for considering Malmö as part of the Copenhagen metropolitan area or an even larger metropolitan area, which would be called Örestad in Swedish and Ørestad in Danish, since it would consist of all the towns around the Sound.

German, French, Flemish, Danish, Dutch, and Norwegian colonists entered the area shortly afterward.

The red area was under direct Danish control, with Sweyn's ruling it as a Danish extension.

The Danish West Indies covered a total area of and in the 1850s consisted of three islands: Sankt Thomas with ; Sankt Jan with ; and Sankt Croix of.

There are variations relating to area of origin, such as French ballet, Danish Bournonville ballet, Italian ballet and Russian ballet, although most ballet of the last two centuries is ultimately founded on the teachings of Carlo Blasis.

The Danish economy benefited from the Eighty Years ' War ( 1568 – 1648 ) in the Netherlands because a large number of skilled refugees from that area ( the most economically advanced in Europe ) came to Denmark.

From approximately 1200 until 1864, the area that is now Nordfriesland was a part of the Duchy of Schleswig, which itself was not directly a part of the Danish Kingdom, but a fiefdom of the Danish crown and linked to the kings of Denmark by personal union as a separate entity.

Written history in the area began about 800 AD, when the Danish Viking settlement of Haithabu was founded.

Led by a " Danish Maid ," the program consists of æbleskiver eating competitions, music, dancing, and processions through the downtown area with floats, marching groups, marching bands, folk dancers and singers.

The newly formed Green's Village attracted many people of Danish origin who followed another early Danish settler's positive letters home regarding the area.

A Danish sailing description from the end of the 13th century describes the area as a transportation region.

According to information from a trader travelling from Skiringssal, close to the Oslofjord to Hedeby in the 870s it can be concluded that Halland was a Danish area at that time.

The area was first settled by Danish migrants in the 1860s, founding a community known as Daneville.

The imprint of Scandinavian settlement is found in thousands of residents with Scandinavian ( i. e. Danish and Swedish ) surnames, as well thousands of Icelanders and Norwegians settled the Payson-Spanish Fork area in the 1850s ; Swiss people and Austrians ; and since the 1930s, Mexican Americans among a few other Hispanics and Latinos.

This is due to the Danish phenomenon of ' summer houses ' ( holiday homes ): most are wooden but quite luxurious, and there are several thousand in this area.

The area boasts churches with typical Danish frescos.