Facts about Denmark

The competition between the sons of Valdemar II, had the long term result that the southern parts of Jutland were separated from the kingdom of Denmark and became semi-independent vassal duchies/counties.

King Knud's North Sea Empire included Denmark (1018), Norway (1028), England (1035) and held strong influence over the north-eastern coast of Germany.

The Kingdom of Denmark is geographically the smallest and southernmost Nordic country.

From the Viking age towards the end of the thirteenth century, the kingdom of Denmark consisted of Jutland, north from the Elder River and the islands of Zealand, Funen, Bornholm, Skеne, Halland and Blekinge.

Charles X Gustav quickly regretted not having destroyed Denmark completely and in August 1658 he began a two-year long siege of Copenhagen but failed to take the capital.

Denmark is one of the world's flattest countries.

The war led to no territorial changes, but Sweden was forced to pay a war indemnity of 1 million silver riksdaler to Denmark, an amount known as the Дlvsborg ransom.

Originally a seafaring nation relying on fishing, farming and trade, Denmark experienced steady industrialization in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and developed the Scandinavian model welfare state.

The result of the plebiscite was that Northern Schleswig (Sшnderjylland) was recovered by Denmark, thereby adding 163,600 inhabitants and 3,984 kmІ.

Denmark tried to regain control of Skеne in the Scanian War (1675-1679) but it ended in failure.

Denmark and Norway remained in a personal union until the Congress of Vienna, 1814.

Toward the end of the war, Denmark grew increasingly difficult for Nazi Germany to control, but the country was not liberated until Allied forces arrived in the country at the end of the war.

The occupation of Denmark was unique in that the terms of occupation were initially very lenient (although the Communist party was banned when Germany invaded the Soviet Union).

Denmark's market economy features very efficient agriculture, up-to-date small-scale and corporate industry, extensive government welfare measures, very high living standards, a stable currency, and high dependence on foreign trade.

Following the defeat of Germany, the Versailles powers offered to return the then-German region of Schleswig-Holstein to Denmark.

Denmark kept the colonies of Iceland, Faeroe Islands and Greenland.

The Protestant Reformation came to Scandinavia in the 1530s, and following the Count's Feud civil war, Denmark converted to Lutheranism in 1536.

The earliest archaeological findings in Denmark date back to 130,000 – 110,000 B.C.E.

Nearly seven out of eight Danes are members of the state church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church, also known as the Church of Denmark.

Denmark is a net exporter of food and energy and has a comfortable balance of payments surplus and zero net foreign debt.

Fearing German irredentism, Denmark refused to consider the return of the area and insisted on a plebiscite concerning the return of Schleswig.

British control over the waterways between Denmark and Norway proved disastrous to the union's economy and in 1813, Denmark-Norway went bankrupt.

The culture of Denmark is hard to define.

The Kingdom of Denmark is a constitutional monarchy.

The Danish liberal and national movement gained momentum in the 1830s, and after the European Revolutions of 1848 Denmark peacefully became a constitutional monarchy in 1849.

People have inhabited Denmark since about 12,500 B.C.E.

Denmark prospered greatly in the last decades of the eighteenth century due to its neutral status allowing it to trade with both sides in the many contemporary wars.

Denmark managed to avoid territorial concessions, but Gustavus Adolphus' intervention in Germany was seen as a sign that the military power of Sweden was on the rise while Denmark's influence in the region was declining.

The Roman provinces maintained trade routes and relations with native tribes in Denmark and Roman coins have been found in Denmark.

Following the Great Northern War (1700–1721), Denmark managed to restore control of the parts of Schleswig and Holstein ruled by the house of Holstein-Gottorp in 1721 and 1773, respectively.

In 2006 and 2007, surveys ranked Denmark as "the happiest place in the world," based on standards of health, welfare, and education.

Along with the Jutland peninsula, Denmark consists of 405 named islands.

Before that, Tycho Brahe, who lived and worked in the part of southern Sweden, then part of Denmark, made important advances in the field of astronomy in the late seventeenth century.

The new runic alphabet was first used at the same time and Ribe, the oldest town of Denmark, was founded about 700 C.E.

Religion, religious societies, and churches do not need to be state-recognized in Denmark and can be granted the right to perform weddings and other rites without this recognition.

Evidence of strong Celtic cultural influence dates from this period in Denmark and much of northwest Europe and is among other things reflected in the finding of the Gundestrup cauldron.

Denmark is a liberal democracy and constitutional monarchy.

Until 1848, Denmark's southern border lay approximately 40 km farther south than it does today.

Four percent of the Danish population adhere to Islam, and other religions in Denmark include non-Lutheran Christian denominations.

Denmark's area, slightly above 43,000 kmІ, is about the same as Massachusetts and Connecticut combined.

After the Second War of Schleswig (Danish: Slesvig) in 1864, Denmark was forced to cede Schleswig and Holstein to Prussia, in a defeat that left deep marks on the Danish national identity.

After these events, Denmark returned to its traditional policy of neutrality, also keeping Denmark neutral in World War I.

The majority of Danes are members of the Lutheran state church, the Danish People's Church (Den Danske Folkekirke), also known as the Church of Denmark.

The new runic alphabet was first used at the same time and Ribe, the oldest town of Denmark, was founded about 700 C.E.

King Christian IV attacked Sweden in the 1611–1613 Kalmar War but failed to accomplish his main objective of forcing Sweden to return to the union with Denmark.