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	South Jutland County - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Northern Schleswig 75% voted for reunification with Denmark and 25% for staying with Germany.
		In Central Schleswig the situation was reversed with 80% voting for Germany and 20% for Denmark.
		The coat of arms of South Jutland County was designed in 1980 and is derived from the historic coat of arms of Schleswig which in turn is derived from the national coat of arms of Denmark.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Northern_Schleswig (452 words)

	Propaganda Postcards of the Great War (World War 1) - Schleswig
		Schleswig is the Duchy which forms the territorial commonality between Germany and Denmark.
		The province, along with its neighbor to the south, the Duchy of Holstein, were under Danish administration from the 1815 Treaty of Paris (with settled post-Napoleon European borders) until Denmark's defeat by Germany and Austria in the Danish War of 1864.
		Schleswig, a province of mixed ethnic German and Danish population had been an integral part of Prussia, the German Empire's dominant state for 48 years.
	www.ww1-propaganda-cards.com /schleswig.html (610 words)

	History of Schleswig Holstein
		The area settled by the Saxons was bounded by the Eider river in the north, the North Sea towards the west, and the Elbe river in the south.
		In 1237, Duke Abel of Schleswig married the daughter of Count Adolf IV of Holstein-Stormarn and thus established a relationship between the two houses.
		In 1260, Mechtild, the widow of Duke Abel of Schleswig, mortgaged her possessions between the Eider river and the Sliefjord to her brothers, the counts Gerhard I and Johann I. Other areas, such as the City of Eckernförde and the Danish Wold, were mortgaged to of the Holsteiners.
	www.hans-peter-voss.de /gen/e/history.htm (4368 words)

	Hedeby
		Hedeby (referred to also as Haithabu and latin Heidiba) was a settlement and trading center on the southern Baltic Sea coast of the Jutland Peninsula at the head of a narrow, navigable inlet, the Schlei in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany.
		At the end of the 9th century the northern and southern part was abandoned for the central section.
		The inhabitants moved to Schleswig and Haithabu was abandoned.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/he/Hedeby.html (290 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Schleswig
		The Diocese of Schleswig, though, did not include the whole of the later Duchy of Schleswig, as the north-western part belonged to the Diocese of Ripen, and the Islands of Alsen, Arö and Fehmarn to the Diocese of Funen.
		On the death in 1459 of Adolf VII, son of Gerhard VI, the line of the counts of Schauenburg became extinct, and the estates of Schleswig and of Holstein elected in 1460 as duke and count the Danish King Christian of the Oldenburg dynasty, who was the sob of Adolf's sister.
		In 1536 Lutheranism was declared the religion of the state by Christian III, the exercise of the Catholic faith was forbidden, and the property of the diocese was confiscated.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13542a.htm (2823 words)

	History of Schleswig Holstein
		In 974 a conflict arises between the Franks and the Danes; the latter are defeated at the Danevirke, a series of ramparts begun in 737 between the Hollingstedt on the Treene river in the west and the head of the Sliefjord near Haithabu and the present-day Schleswig in the east.
		In 1260, Mechtild, the widow of Duke Abel of Schleswig, mortgages her possessions between the Eider river and the Sliefjord in favour of her brothers the counts Gerhard I and Johann I. Other areas, such as the City of Eckernförde and the Danish Wold, are mortgaged in favour of the Holsteiners.
		Arö [Ærø], Northern Anglia, the districts Flensburg and Bredstedt, Segeberg, Oldesloe, Plön, Steinburg, Reinfeld and Ahrensböck.
	www.genealogy-sh.de /history/e/history.htm (3942 words)

	Historical Flags (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The union of the Duchy of Schleswig with the County of Holstein was unusual since they were fiefs of different states (Schleswig of Denmark, Holstein of the Empire).
		Holstein used to be a German fief whereas Schleswig was a Danish fief.
		Northern Schleswig was handed over to Denmark in 1920, while southern Schleswig remained German.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/de-sh_hi.html (1581 words)

	RAF Schleswig \| Schleswig Germany \| Schleswig Jagel \| RAF Schleswig Land
		The meaning of the name Schleswig is 'village by the Schlei'.
		When the glaciers that had come down across Northern Germany began to melt back, large amounts of water attempted to find a way back to the sea.
		At the end of the war, the airfield at Jagel near Schleswig became home ground for a squadron of RAF Hawker Typhoon fighter-bombers, who moved to the airfield on 4th may 1945.
	adenairways.com /schleswig (267 words)

	Schleswig-Holstein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Queen Margrethe was forced to accept fait accompli and grant Schleswig as a hereditary Danish duchy to Gerhard IV 1386.
		The nobility in Schleswig and Holstein however elected the Danish king Christian I as duke and count after he promised that Schleswig and Holstein would for all eternity be undivided and united.
		But Schleswig and Holstein were divided again 1544 in the same manner as in 1490.
	home.student.uu.se /o/orma1967/Kartor/Danmark/schleswig-holstein.htm (669 words)

	Der Kieler Kreis -- Kiel
		Jutland (Danish Jylland), in physical geography, peninsula in northern Europe, extending northward from the Eider River, and bounded on the north by the Skagerrak strait, on the east by the Kattegat strait and the Lillebælt channel, and on the west by the North Sea.
		It was subject to a number of invasions from Denmark and Sweden, and in 1848 it became the capital of Danish-controlled Schleswig.
		Navigation in the northern part of the Baltic is suspended during the winter and early spring because of ice.
	www.geocities.com /redmidnightcat/schleswig.htm (2247 words)

	WHKMLA : The German-Danish War of 1864
		While the majority of the Schleswigers felt and spoke German, there were both a significant Danish minority, especially in the northern parts of the Duchy, and a Frisian minority, leaning toward the Danes.
		Schleswig was burdened with the costs of the war and with 20 million Dalers of the Danish national debt.
		According to the peace treaty, Schleswig and Lauenburg were to be administrated by Prussia, Holstein by Austria, the port of Kiel to be used by Prussian troops.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/military/19cen/gerdanwar1864.html (1113 words)

	Hekmat-Germany
		These so-called Indo-Europeans were the ancestors of the Germanic peoples who settled in northern and central Germany, of the Celts in the south and west, and of the Baltic and Slavic peoples in the east.
		Germans and Romans From the 2nd century BC to the 5th century AD northern Germanic and Celtic tribes, constantly pressed by new migrations from the north and east, were in contact with the Romans, who controlled southern and western Europe.
		Frankish Kingdoms Throughout western Europe and northern Africa, the political and cultural bonds of the Roman Empire were gradually replaced by a multitude of successor states.
	www.hekmats.com /germanyhistory.htm (21639 words)

	Schleswig-Holstein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For many centuries, the King of Denmark was both a Danish Duke of Schleswig and a German Duke of Holstein, the Duke of Saxony.
		This decision was challenged by a rival pro-German branch of the Danish royal family, the House of Augustenburg (Danish: Augustenborg) who demanded, as in 1848, the crowns of both Schleswig and Holstein.
		In Northern Schleswig (10 February 1920) 75% voted for reunification with Denmark and 25% voted for Germany.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Schleswig-Holstein (1896 words)

	Denmark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Denmark´s involvement in the northern war 1657-60 results in additional disastrous losses to Sweden.
		The duchies of schleswig and Holstein are lost to Prussia and Austria after a short war.
		Northern Schleswig is returned to Denmark after a plebiscite.
	home.student.uu.se /o/orma1967/Kartor/Danmark/denmark.htm (305 words)

	Southern Schleswig - QuickSeek Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Southern Schleswig is a name for the geographical area covering the 30-40 most northern kilometers of Germany where Germany borders to Denmark.
		Together with Northern Schleswig which is the most southern part of Denmark it constitutes the region Schleswig.
		Southern Schleswig is only known as a region differentiated from the rest of Schleswig-Holstein by a small number of its inhabitants, mainly by the members of the Danish minority of Southern Schleswig.
	southernschleswig.quickseek.com (143 words)

	History
		Schleswig and Holstein were jointly ruled by the King of Denmark and a hereditary Duke
		The Czar of Russia acted as Duke of Holstein; Schleswig was still a possession of Denmark; The Treaty of 1765, between Russia and Denmark, gave Holstein to the King of Denmark
		Denmark was defeated and the King of Denmark lost Schleswig to Prussia and Holstein to Austria
	www.frontiernet.net /~ioannes1/History (571 words)

	Istria on the Internet - Linguuistics
		The country may be conveniently divided into a northern section, the inhabitants of which consider Flemish as their vernacular, but who also generally know French, and a southern section peopled by French-speaking inhabitants who adhere to the use of Walloon dialects in the intimacy of their home life.
		The transition from the northern plain of Germany to high central regions is represented on the surface by a zone of intermediate uplands in Saxony, Lusatia and Silesia.
		This early and northern phase of the ''Drang nach Osten" brought the Germans to the coast of the Gulf of Finland.
	www.istrianet.org /istria/linguistics/1915_linguistic-areas.htm (13393 words)

	Schleswig-Holstein
		This would have resulted in the return of Schleswig to the Danish crown and that Holstein would have been inherited by a different branch of the house of Schauenburg.
		Because its dukes did not take part in the government of Schleswig and Holstein is this duchy marked as a part of the king of Denmark’s domains in the maps below.
		The last part of that duchy was returned to the crown 1863 when its duke became king of Denmark.
	www.tacitus.nu /historical-atlas/scandinavia/schleswig-holstein.htm (628 words)

	North Schleswig (Denmark)
		The best source of information about everything North Schleswig is: http://www.nordschleswig.dk/links/ The political party of German population, which accomplished the most in fight for minority rights and cultural autonomy, Bund deutscher Nordshleswiger, used to fly white and blue flag with two lions in the
		which dominates local politics now, Schleswiger Partei - SP - uses as its symbols salt and pepper shakers and it doesn't seems to be appropriated to be put on a flag.
		Northern Schleswig had to be given to Denmark in 1920 (caused by WW I), while southern Schleswig remains to Germany.
	www.fotw.net /flags/dk-nschl.html (468 words)

	LINNS.COM: The website of the world's largest weekly stamp newspaper-Linn's Stamp News
		The northern coastal area was under the influence of the Turks from the 16th century and Egypt during the 19th century.
		The northern portion of the country, formerly the British territory, separated from the rest of Somalia to form the independent Somaliland Republic.
		In 1914, it was merged with Northern Nigeria to form the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria.
	www.linns.com /reference/entities/entity_s.asp (7413 words)

	BioMed Central \| Full text \| Predictors of gallstone composition in 1025 symptomatic gallstones from Northern Germany
		Recruitment was performed through "popgen", a comprehensive regional biobank project in Northern Schleswig-Holstein [20], and utilised their technical, ethical and data protection protocols.
		In summary, this study documents a dramatic change in gallstone composition – in the high-prevalence region of Northern Germany – with a overwhelming preponderance of cholesterol-based gallstones.
		This is in contrast to the gallstone composition in recent studies from sub-Saharan Africa [15] and China [16,17].
	www.biomedcentral.com /1471-230X/6/36 (4553 words)

	Denmark 1521-1944
		Duke Frederik of Schleswig-Holstein become king over Denmark and his duchy is therefore returned to the crown.
		Denmark’s intervention in the northern war results in additional disastrous losses to Sweden.
		The Schleswig part of Holstein-Gottorp is returned to the crown as a result of the great northern war.
	www.tacitus.nu /historical-atlas/scandinavia/dk3.htm (214 words)

	Treaty of Versailles information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Alsace-Lorraine, the territories which were ceded to Germany in accordance with the Preliminaries of Peace signed at Versailles on February 26, 1871, and the Treaty of Frankfurt of May 10, 1871, were restored to French sovereignty without plebiscite as from the date of the Armistice of November 11, 1918.
		Northern Schleswig including the German-dominated town of Tondern Tønder in Schleswig-Holstein, after the Schleswig Plebiscite, to Denmark (3,984 km², 163,600 inhabitants (1920)),
		Northern part of East Prussia as Memelland under control of France, later transferred to Lithuania without plebiscite.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/Treaty_of_Versailles (2894 words)

	Cemetery #86 Union Cemetery : Manitowoc County, Wisconsin Genealogy
		Nee Elsie Rades, she was born July 24, 1892, in the town of Schleswig, Manitowoc County, a daughter of the late William and Margaret Rades.
		Schroeder would not consent to having the body exhumed, but the two sons, young men, notified him that they would see that it was done and C.R. Zorn, a justice of the peace at Louis Corners issued a precept for a coroner's jury to meet at his office on Monday morning.
		She is 53 years old and has lived with her husband in northern Schleswig about 20 years.
	www.2manitowoc.com /86obit.html (1109 words)

	The Angles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		King Alfred and the chronicler Æthelweard identified this place with the district which is now called Angel in the province of Schleswig (Slesvig), though it may then have been of greater extent, and this identification agrees very well with the indications given by Bede.
		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.
		Their homeland is presently divided amongst Northern Schleswig in Denmark and Southern Schleswig in Germany.
	home.comcast.net /~desilva22/the_angles.htm (1012 words)

	Finance Choices - Personal Finance Wiki
		The country consists of a large peninsula, Jutland, which borders northern Germany, plus a large number of islands, most notably Zealand, Funen, Vendsyssel-Thy, Lolland and Bornholm as well as hundreds of minor islands often referred to as the Danish Archipelago.
		After the Second War of Schleswig (Danish: Slesvig) in 1864, Denmark was forced to cede Schleswig-Holstein to Prussia, in a defeat that left deep marks on the Danish national identity.
		On July 10, 1920, after the plebiscite and the King's signature July 9 on the reunion document, Northern Schleswig (Sønderjylland) was recovered by Denmark, thereby adding 163,600 inhabitants and 3,984 km².
	www.financechoices.co.uk /personal-finance-wiki.php?title=Denmark (4754 words)

	Denmark: History - K12 Academics
		After the Second War of Schleswig in 1864, Denmark was forced to cede Schleswig-Holstein to Prussia, in a defeat that left deep marks on the Danish national identity.
		Fearing German irredentism, Denmark refused to consider the return of the area and insisted on a plebiscite concerning the return of Schleswig.
		On July 10, 1920, after the plebiscite and the King´s signature July 9 on the reunion document, Northern Schleswig (Sønderjylland) was recovered by Denmark, thereby adding 163,600 inhabitants and 3,984 km²;.
	www.k12academics.com /denmark_history.htm (948 words)

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