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  Denmark - LoveToKnow 1911
The Cattegat is divided from the Baltic by the Danish islands, between the east coast of the Cimbric peninsula in the neighbourhood of the German frontier and south-western Sweden.
Denmark, however, is nowhere low in the sense in which Holland is; the country is pleasantly diversified, and rises a little at the coast even though it remains flat inland.
The population of Denmark in 1901 was 2,449,540.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Denmark   (15813 words)

  
 Kalmar Union
Queen Margaret who was a daughter of the late Danish king Valdemar Atterdag and wife of the late Norwegian king Haakon VI, maneuvered to have her grand-nephew, Eric of Pomerania elected king over the three countries.
Eric was deposed in 1438-1439 as the union king and succeeded by the childless Christopher of Bavaria.
In 1814 Denmark was forced to cede Norway to Sweden and this would in the middle of the 19th century give rise to the Scandinavian movement which sought to reunite the countries of the Kalmar Union, except Finland, under one monarch.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ka/Kalmar_Union.html   (541 words)

  
 World InfoZone - Denmark Facts
Denmark is one of the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden).
Anne of Denmark married James VI of Scotland and I of England (1589).
Denmark is one of the Baltic Sea States.
www.worldinfozone.com /facts.php?country=Denmark   (464 words)

  
 Eric V of Denmark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eric V "Klipping" (1249- November 22, 1286) was King of Denmark (1259-1286) and son of Christopher I.
The Pope seemingly agreed, but it never became an issue; Eric was succeeded by his son, who was named Eric after his uncle, Eric IV "Ploughpenny".
Eric Klipping was assassinated November 22, 1286, and a number of the nation's most powerful noblemen, led by Marsk Stig Andersen Hvide were outlawed by the Danish court.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eric_V_of_Denmark   (297 words)

  
 Eric VI of Denmark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eric Menved’s rule is a central period during the “Age of Decay" in Denmark 1241-1340.
The long wars however drained Denmark’s economic resources and the lavishness and extravaganzas of the king (a great and expensive banquet at Rostock 1311 was a climax) became a further strain on the finances.
Traditionally the rule of Eric VI has been regarded one of the few bright spots of the period because of its attempt of recovering Denmark and he has been hailed in Danish romantic literature.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eric_VI_of_Denmark   (582 words)

  
 Denmark : In Depth : History | Frommers.com
Part of Denmark's military and mercantile success derived from the general weakness of the German states to the south; part of it was because of a population explosion within Denmark, which increased the pressure for colonization.
Eric VI (1274-1319) also waged wars with Norway and Sweden, which led to Denmark's debilitation and the mortgaging of large parcels of the kingdom to pay for unsuccessful military campaigns.
Denmark, thanks to its control of the narrow straits near Copenhagen, its ownership of such Baltic islands as Ösel and Gotland, and, in the Atlantic, its control of Iceland and the Faroe Islands, could be accused of being far more imperial than its size, and present-day pacifism, would imply.
www.frommers.com /destinations/denmark/0220020044.html   (3277 words)

  
 Norway - MSN Encarta
In 1343 Magnus was succeeded by his son, Håkon VI, and in 1380 the latter’s son, Oluf III, king of Denmark, became king of Norway as Olaf IV.
Sweden and Denmark were larger and wealthier than Norway, which had lost much of its population and many of its farms in the mid-14th century during an outbreak of bubonic plague called the Black Death.
After the defeat of Napoleon I in 1814, Denmark was compelled to sign the Treaty of Kiel, ceding Norway to the king of Sweden—an ally of Britain against France.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761556517_10/Norway.html   (1609 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Denmark is a member of the European Union, and elects 16 members of the European parliament.
Denmark tried her best to expand her influence to Holstein too, and during 1203-1227 the Count of Holstein acknoledged the King of Denmark as feudal lord.
Denmark is an almost ideal country for cyclists: Relatively short distances, practically no steep roads, and a dense network of bike paths and small country roads.
archive.cs.uu.nl /pub/NEWS.ANSWERS/nordic-faq/part3_DENMARK   (11736 words)

  
 Royalty.nu - Danish Royalty, Kings and Queens of Denmark
The first royal house of Denmark was established in the 10th century by a Viking king called Gorm the Old.
In 1397, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden formed the Kalmar Union under Margaret I. Born a Danish princess, she had married King Haakon VI of Norway.
Although her nephew Eric of Pomerania was the official king of all three countries, it was Margaret who ruled them until her death in 1412.
www.royalty.nu /Europe/Scandinavia/Denmark.html   (2061 words)

  
 Titles of European hereditary rulers
Margaret was the daughter of Valdemar IV, King of Denmark, and the widow of Haakon VI, King of Norway and Sweden.
Margaret (+1412), Regent of Denmark (from 1375), of Norway (from 1380), and of Sweden (from 1389), by diplomacy and war, pursued dynastic policies that led to the Kalmar Union (1397), which united Denmark, Norway, and Sweden until 1523 and Denmark and Norway until 1814.
Erick was proclaimed hereditary King of Norway in 1389 and was elected king of Denmark and Sweden in 1396.
www.geocities.com /eurprin/denmark.html   (4561 words)

  
 World Homes Network - Norway
In 961 Haakon was killed in combat with Danish invaders led by the sons of Eric Bloodaxe, and the ensuing years were turbulent until the arrival in 995 of Olaf (I) Tryggvesson, grandson of one of the murdered half -brothers of Eric.
Haakon VI died in 1380 and Margaret, his wife, and daughter of Waldemar IV of Denmark, acted as regent in both countries, even after her son Olaf's death in 1387.
Norway suffered considerably in the constant wars between Sweden and Denmark (the former having seceded from the union in the early 16th century), losing the provinces of Hä rjedalen and Jämtland in 1645 and Bohuslän in 1658.
www.world-homes.net /atlas/europe/Scandanavia/norway.htm   (3277 words)

  
 All the Kings of Denmark
Maria was daughter of Henrik III, Duke of Mecklenburg and Ingeborg of Denmark (older sister of Margrete).
Heir to the Danish throne in 1455, heir to the Swedish and Norwegian thrones in 1458.
Denmark and Norway was then ruled by the King's stepmother, Queen Dowager Juliana Maria and his half brother Prince Frederik.
www.warholm.nu /Kingdan.html   (3351 words)

  
 Scandinavia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
When Denmark was conquered by Germany in 1940, Iceland was occupied by the Allies, with the government in the hands of a Regency.
Norway was united with Denmark in personal union from the 14th century; in 1814 it was detached from Denmark, and amalgamated with Sweden.
According to the sagas, Ivar Vidfame and the early Kings of Sweden and Denmark were descended in the distaff line from Heidrek II (Ivar's father Harald was the son of Heidrek II's daughter Hildur).
www.hostkingdom.net /scand.html   (3572 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ancient See of Roskilde in Denmark
On Bishop Peter's death in 1416 King Eric of Pomerania took possession of Copenhagen, which henceforward ceased to be episcopal property.
He managed to keep Lutheranism out of the diocese for the most part, and it was not till the time of his successor Joachim Rönnov, nominal Bishop of Roskilde (1529-36), that the deluge came.
As elsewhere in Denmark, there were Franciscan, Dominican, or Carmelite convents, as well as hospitals of the Holy Spirit and sometimes leper-houses (as at Copenhagen and Kallundborg) in the towns.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/16071c.htm   (1145 words)

  
 Denmark Royalty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Denmark Ancient differs from Denmark Modern, that shows the current lesser coat of arms of Denmark, in that the three lions passant are also guardant in the Ancient coat of arms.
He withdrew to Gotland in 1436, and was ousted in Denmark and Sweden in 1439, in Norway in 1441.
Likewise for the FR VII cypher of Frederik VII.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/dk-hiroy.html   (1738 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ancient See of Viborg in Denmark
The ancient See of Viborg, in Denmark, comprised the Province of Viborg, the town of Aalborg, and the hundreds of Fleskum, Hornum, Hellum, Hindsted, Aars, Gislum, and Slet in the Province of Aalborg.
In 1540 he was endowed with the lands of the Abbey of Vrejlev and some of the property of the see, and though he never married, he led the life of a lay nobleman until his death in 1547.
The shrines of St. Kjeld and St. Willehad were removed to the choir of the cathedral in 1538, but Lutheran ministers continued to recite daily the Office of the Dead for the soul of King Eric Glipping (d.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/16081b.htm   (889 words)

  
 Denmark Heads
At the age of ten, in 1363, Margrethe was married to King Håkon VI of Norway, son of Magnus II of Sweden and Norway.
Their son Olaf, born in 1370, was elected King Olaf II of Denmark in 1375 at the death of Margrethe's father, with her as regent.
During his stay abroad from 1423 she was regent in Denmark, and among others successfully organized the Defence of Copenhagen against the attacking....
www.guide2womenleaders.com /denmark_heads.htm   (1767 words)

  
 Augustus Hare Society Pages
Either Hamburg or Lübeck must be the starting-point for the overland route to Denmark, and the old free city of Lübeck, though quite a small place, is one of the most remarkable towns in Germany.
The entrance of one of the private chapels is a gate with a huge figure, in wrought ironwork, of the devil with his tail in his hand.
But Denmark is the very home of picturesque stories, which are kept alive there by the ballad literature of the land, chiefly of the fourteenth or fifteenth centuries, but still known to rich and poor alike as in no other country.
augustus-hare.tripod.com /sketchesindenmark.html   (2871 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/screaminericband
SCREAMIN' ERIC started out in 1991 as a five-piece combo playing mostly covers of The Sonics and The Stooges and occasionally raping a few songs of The Rolling Stones and The Doors.
Vi havde nemlig møde med drengene fra Heptown i går.
Vi har uploaded to nye sange fra vores kommende debut-album.
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 Mistel VI in 1/72 Scale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Mistel VI was conceived in mid June 1945 in response to the failures of existing Mistel composite aircraft.
The Mistel VI was shown to be capable of creating heavy damage to fortified buildings as well as warships.
Needless to say, the Mistel VI, or "Blitztel" as its crews nicknamed it, was never used in the grand operation envisioned by Luftwaffe planners.
ipmslondon.tripod.com /modelingarticles/id14.html   (3043 words)

  
 Margaret I — FactMonster.com
Margaret I, 1353–1412, queen of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, daughter of Waldemar IV of Denmark.
At the death (1375) of her father, her son Olaf became king of Denmark under the regency of his parents.
In spite of Eric's nominal kingship, Margaret remained the actual ruler of all three kingdoms until her death.
www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0831768.html   (328 words)

  
 Tina Molbo's Multiply Site - My life in writing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
On the 14th century Denmark absorbed the kingdoms of Norway and Sweden in the Union of Kalmar.
Denmark is nowadays one of the most prosperous nations in the world and a member of the European Union since 1973.
Nevertheless, the theory that Andersen was the illegitimate son of royalty persists in Denmark.
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 TIME.com: Brother Christian Wins -- Apr. 17, 1933 -- Page 1
King Frederick VI of Norway and Denmark, having sided with Napoleon, was forced to cede Norway to Sweden.
They began to remember Eric the Red's drowned vikings, the seals and the lie, began to mutter that Norway had been put upon.
Denmark's rage at this "impudence" was not softened by the fact that Denmark had ruled Greenland philanthropically at a loss.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,847290,00.html   (759 words)

  
 Magnus VII. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Magnus’s son Eric revolted in 1356 and gained part of Sweden, but Magnus regained control after Eric’s death (1359).
The threat of the Hanseatic League, which established its colony at Bergen during Magnus’s reign, induced Magnus and Haakon VI to enter (1363) an alliance with Denmark.
Haakon married Waldemar’s daughter Margaret I, thus preparing the union of Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.
www.bartleby.com /65/ma/Magnus7.html   (293 words)

  
 Swedish Americans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Across the Baltic Sea, Sweden borders Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania to the East, Poland, Germany, and Denmark to the south.
By about 1000, most of central and eastern Sweden was united in the kingdom of the Svear, although this was disputed by their powerful neighbors, the Danes and the Norwegians.
In 1397 Norway and Sweden were united with Denmark, under the rule of the Danish Queen Margaret in the Union of Kalmar.
www.everyculture.com /multi/Sr-Z/Swedish-Americans.html   (7488 words)

  
 Gunhilda of Poland
Gunhild married Eric VI the Victorious Bjornsson, son of Bjorn the Old of Sweden Ericsson and Unknown, circa 980-985.
(Svend I Haraldsson Tjugeskjegg of Denmark was born circa 960, died on 3 Feb 1014 in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England and was buried in Roskilde Cathedral, Denmark)
(Eric VI 'the Victorious' Björnsson died in 995
www.delmars.com /family/perrault/7225.htm   (303 words)

  
 Erwin's StarOffice Tango
The article says that Helge Sander, Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation in Denmark is promising that all publications on the ministry homepage will be availiable in ODF.
Som et første skridt har jeg bedt mit eget ministerium om, at vi fra september tilbyder publikationer og anden relevant skriftlig kommunikation i det åbne dokumentformat ODF, sagde Helge Sander.
You can find a bit more inside info about recent developments for ODF in Denmark on John Gotze's blog here: http://gotzespace.dk John was intimately involved in all this work behind the scenes, as he notes.
blogs.sun.com /dancer/entry/opendocument_in_denmark   (578 words)

  
 Waldemar II — FactMonster.com
Waldemar II Waldemar II, 1170–1241, king of Denmark (1202–41), second son of Waldemar I. In the reign of his brother, Canute VI, he defended Denmark from German aggression and then extended Danish control over Schwerin.
He then attempted a reconquest, but was defeated (1227) at Bornhöved and spent the remainder of his life in codifying Danish law and in forwarding internal reform.
Denmark: Kings and Queens - Denmark: Kings and Queens Harold Bluetooth, king of Denmark (935–c.
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 English Monarchs - Kings and Queens of England - Sweyn Forkbeard.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Sweyn Forkbeard, the son of Harold Bluetooth, King of Denmark, was born around 960.
He was married twice, firstly to Gunhilda, the daughter of Mjeczislas, Duke of Poland and secondly to Sigrid 'the Haughty', the widow of Eric VI, King of Sweden.
Ethelred was re-called by the Witan, causing Sweyn's son, Canute to flee.
www.englishmonarchs.co.uk /vikings.htm   (360 words)

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