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  Denmark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Kingdom of Denmark (Danish: Kongeriget Danmark) is the smallest and southernmost of the Nordic countries.
Denmark is a constitutional monarchy and is part of the European Union.
Denmark is the oldest monarchy in continental Europe.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Denmark   (3503 words)

  
 Denmark
The Kingdom of Denmark is the smallest Nordic country, situated in Scandinavia, in northern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, on a peninsula and a number of islands north of Germany, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway.
Denmark consists of the Jutland peninsula (jylland) and 405 named islands, of which 82 are inhabited, the most important are Funen (fyn) and Zealand (sjælland).
Denmark is a net exporter of food and energy and has a comfortable balance of payments surplus.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/da/Danes.html   (650 words)

  
 Denmark Provision @ VariedTastes.com (Varied Tastes)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Kingdom of Denmark (Danish: Kongeriget Danmark) is the geographically smallest and southernmost Nordic country and is also the oldest.
Denmark borders the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, and consists of a peninsula named Jutland (Jylland) attached to Northern Germany, the islands Funen (Fyn), Zealand (Sjælland), Bornholm (Bornholm) and many smaller islands, the waters of which are often referred to as the Danish Archipelago.
After the Reformation, which was officially implemented in 1536, the schools were taken over by the Crown, but their purpose was still to prepare the students for theological studies by teaching them to read, write and speak Latin and Greek, although it now was for the benefit of the Protestant Church.
www.variedtastes.com /encyclopedia/Denmark   (2798 words)

  
 Greenland - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Greenland was one of the Norwegian Crown colonies until 1815, when it formally became a Danish colony, although Norway and Denmark had been in a personal union for centuries.
Denmark attained possession of the moribund colony at the Treaty of Kiel in 1815.
Norway and Denmark agreed to settle the matter in the International Court of the League of Nations in 1933, where Norway lost.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Greenland   (1155 words)

  
 Learn more about Denmark in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Denmark was first united by Harold Bluetooth (Harald Blåtand) around 980.
Scania was part of Denmark for most of its early history, but was lost to Sweden in 1658.
After the Second War of Schleswig in 1864 Denmark was forced to cede Schleswig-Holstein to Prussia, in a defeat that left deep marks in the Danish national identity.
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /d/de/denmark.html   (922 words)

  
 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Ribe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Denmark's oldest town hall is found on the town's Von Støckens Plads.
The building was erected in 1496, and was purchased by the city for use as a town hall in 1709.
With it's over 850 years of age, it is among one of the oldest schools of Denmark.
www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Ribe   (586 words)

  
 Denmark
The death sentence was abolished in Denmark in 1930.
Denmark is divided into 13 counties (amter, singular: amt), and 271 municipalities (kommuner, singular kommune).
Of the religions in Denmark, according to official statistics from January 2002, 84.3% of Danes are members of the Lutheran state church, the Danish People's Church (Den Danske Folkekirke), also known as the Church of Denmark.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/d/de/denmark.html   (1754 words)

  
 Denmark - Gurupedia
Denmark borders the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, and consists of a peninsula attached to Northern Germany named Jutland (Jylland in Danish) and many smaller islands.
Denmark is north of Germany and Poland, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway.
After the war, Denmark became a member of NATO and, in 1973, the European Economic Community (later, the European Union).
www.gurupedia.com /d/de/denmark.htm   (908 words)

  
 Disambiguation Encyclopedia @ LaunchBase.org (Launch Base)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In other words, disambiguations are paths leading to different topics that share the same term or a similar term.
Disambiguation pages are not intended for games of "free association." Please use them carefully and only when needed.
Although this is similar to a disambiguation page, the disambiguation notice should not be put here, as the page doesn't link to other articles closely associated with a specific term.
www.launchbase.org /encyclopedia/Wikipedia:Disambiguation   (1114 words)

  
 Greenland Did You Mean greenland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Greenland was one of the Norwegian Crown colonies until 1815, when it formally became a Danish colony, although Norway and Denmark had been in a personal union for centuries (see Denmark-Norway).
The island's ties with Norway were severed by the Treaty of Kiel of 1815, through which Sweden gained control over mainland Norway while Denmark retained all of their common overseas possessions (which at that time included small territories in India, West Africa and the West Indies, as well as lands in northwestern Europe).
It is notable that Greenland is not part of the European Union, despite Denmark itself being a member state.
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 Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How
The term the Nordic countries is used unambiguously for the Scandinavian kingdoms of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and the republics of Finland and Iceland.
Denmark also included the dependent territories of Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Greenland in the Atlantic Ocean (which however historically had belonged to Norway, but unintentionally remained by Denmark according to the Treaty of Kiel).
The end of the Scandinavian political movement came when Denmark was denied military support from Sweden-Norway to annex the (Danish) Duchy of Schleswig, which together with the (German) Duchy of Holstein had been in personal union with Denmark.
www.irelandinformationguide.com /Scandinavia   (731 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Denmark Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Denmark borders the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, and con...
The Danish liberal and national movement gained momentum in the 1830s, and after the European revolutions of 1848 Denmark became a constitutional monarchy June 5th 1849.
The monarch is formally head of state, a role which is mainly ceremonial, since executive power is exercised by the cabinet ministers, with the prime minister acting as the first among equals (primus inter pares).
www.ipedia.com /denmark.html   (1098 words)

  
 Denmark - Wikitravel
Denmark [1] is a country in Northern Europe.
Denmark is served by two major and several minor airports.
Denmark's national language is Danish, a member of the Germanic branch of the group of Indo-European languages, and within that family, part of the North Germanic, East Norse group.
wikitravel.org /en/Denmark   (2801 words)

  
 Hamlet - Simple English Wikipedia
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a play by William Shakespeare.
Hamlet is the son of the King of Denmark.
She was going to marry Hamlet, but seeing Hamlet acting mad and killing her father drives her mad.
simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hamlet   (445 words)

  
 Top20Denmark.com - Your Top20 Guide to Denmark!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Kingdom of Denmark (Danish: Kongeriget Danmark) is geographically the smallest and southernmost Nordic country, and is part of the European Union.
Denmark borders the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, and consists of a peninsula attached to Northern Germany named Jutland (Jylland), the islands Funen (Fyn), Zealand (Sjælland), Bornholm and many smaller islands, the waters of which are often referred to as the Danish Archipelago.
Prior to being populated by Scandinavians, Denmark was home to Celts - as evidenced by the discovery of ritualistic bog murders and burials.
www.top20denmark.com   (1888 words)

  
 ooBdoo
Royal politics at the time resulted in several personal unions between the Nordic countries, eventually bringing the thrones of Norway, Denmark, and Sweden under the control of Queen Margrethe.
The country entered into the Kalmar Union with Denmark and Sweden, and after 1450 remained in a union with Denmark alone that would last until 1814.
As Norway was the weaker part of a union that kept all of its royal, intellectual, and administrative power in Copenhagen, Denmark, this period was in light of the national romanticism in the 19th century sometimes referred to as the "400-Year Night".
www.oobdoo.com /wikipedia/index.php?title=Norway   (3443 words)

  
 Greenland
Greenland was home to a number of Palaeo-Eskimo cultures in prehistory, the latest of which - the Early Dorset culture - disappeared around 200 CE.
Norway and Denmark agreed to settle the matter at the Permanent Court of International Justice in 1933, where Norway lost.
The Sirius Patrol, guarding the Northeastern shores of Greenland using dog sleds, was founded in 1941 and participated in defeating the Germans, which gave Denmark a better position in the postwar turmoil.
www.transporteon.com /Airlines-G/Greenland.php   (1248 words)

  
 Nordic countries -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Nordic countries, sometimes also the Nordic region or Scandinavia, is a region in Northern Europe, consisting of the five countries represented in the Nordic Council (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) and their associate insular members.
In the 14th century, Denmark, Norway (with Iceland) and Sweden (with Finland) were united under one regent, in the Kalmar Union.
Denmark quickly gained the upper hand, but in the early 16th century Sweden re-established itself as a separate kingdom.
psychcentral.com /psypsych/Nordic_countries   (1465 words)

  
 European Union - Wikipedia
Nine further states have joined in successive waves of enlargement: Ireland, United Kingdom and Denmark in the 1970s; Greece, Spain and Portugal in the 1980s; and Finland, Sweden and Austria in the mid-1990s.
Supporters of intergovernmentalism argue that supranationalism is a threat to national sovereignity, and to democracy, claiming that only national governments can possess the necessary democratic legitimacy.
Intergovernmentalism has historically been favoured by France, and by more Eurosceptic nations such as Britain and Denmark; while more integrationist nations such as Belgium, Germany, and Italy have tended to prefer the supranational approach.
nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/EU   (1266 words)

  
 Denmark at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
At various times Denmark has controlled England, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, parts of the Virgin Islands, parts of the Baltic coast and what is now northern Germany.
According to official statistics from January 2002 84.3% of Danes are members of the state church, the Danish People's Church (Den Danske Folkekirke), also known as the Church of Denmark, a form of Lutheranism; the rest are primarily of other Christian denominations or are Muslims.
The best known Dane is probably Hans Christian Andersen, a writer mostly famous for his fairy tales, such as The Emperor's New Clothes and The Ugly Duckling.
www.wiki.tatet.com /Denmark.html   (947 words)

  
 Christiania - QuickSeek Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Christiania, capital of Norway – what Oslo was called from 1624 to 1877, named after King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway; subsequently, the city was called Kristiania (q.v.).
It wasn't before 1925 the city was named Oslo again, 20 years after their separation from Sweden.
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
christiania.quickseek.com   (94 words)

  
 Sweden - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Following the decline of the Viking Age, Sweden became part of the Kalmar Union together with Denmark and Norway (Finland at this time was a part of Sweden).
In 1389, Norway, Denmark and Sweden were united under a single monarch in a treaty known as the Kalmar Union.
After Denmark was defeated in the Napoleonic wars, Norway was ceded to Sweden in the Treaty of Kiel.
www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Sweden   (5396 words)

  
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For conciseness, ambiguous context-free grammars are frequently used to define even completely unambiguous languages and numerous disambiguation methods exist for specifying which interpretation is the intended one for each sentence.
A filter is a function that selects from a set of parse trees (the canonical representation of the interpretations of a sentence) the intended trees.
A disambiguation filter is a function that selects a subset from a set of parse trees---the possible parse trees for an ambiguous sentence.
www.cs.uu.nl /groups/ST/Publications/visser.bib   (1146 words)

  
 DALF: publikation 1996   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Grammar rules are formulated in the Constraint Grammar formalism (CG) and focus is on disambiguation and robustness.
Among other things, argument structure, dependency relations and subclause function are treated in an innovative way, and the author argues that the structural information content of a "flat" CG-based syntactical description can be augmented in such a way that automatic transformation into traditional tree structures is made possible.
The illustration is seen as one possible instantiation of the meaning of the written text; illustrations disambiguate the meaning of the linguistic expression in order to communicate to the reader in a way which is relevant to the use situation.
cpk.auc.dk /dalf/publ96.htm   (2484 words)

  
 Sweden - Wikitravel
It borders Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark via the bridge of Öresund (Öresundsbron).
Helsingborg - North of Malmö and close to Denmark.
Denmark: Trains depart Copenhagen and Copenhagen's airport for Malmö every 20 minutes, and cost only about SEK 85 ("Öresundståg / Øresundstog" regional trains).
wikitravel.org /en/Sweden   (2304 words)

  
 Search: Denmark - FOX News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Denmark Plans to Cut Iraq Force - Friday, May 05, 2006 - COPENHAGEN, DenmarkDenmark plans to cut 80 troops from its 530-strong Iraq contingent and offer a C-130 Hercules plane with up to...
Denmark including information on embassies, arts and cultural events, hotels and lodging, Legoland, and statistical information.
Denmark Culture History and Archaeology - Culture history, archaeological sites, and other information related to the past of the modern country of Denmark.
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