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The Kingdom of Denmark is a unitary state that comprises, in addition to metropolitan Denmark, two autonomous territories [11] in the North Atlantic Ocean: the Faroe Islands and Greenland.
The Danish Realm, [f] officially the Kingdom of Denmark, [h] or simply Denmark, [i] is a sovereign state and refers to the area over which the Constitution of Denmark applies.
The history of Denmark as a unified kingdom began in the 8th century, but historic documents describe the geographic area and the people living there—the Danes—as early as 500 AD. These early documents include the writings of Jordanes and Procopius .
This article covers principally the land and people of continental Denmark. However, the Kingdom of Denmark also encompasses the Faroe Islands and the island of Greenland, both located in the North Atlantic Ocean. Each area is distinctive in history, language, and culture.
In the midst of the Viking era, in the first half of the 10th century, the kingdom of Denmark coalesced in Jutland (Jylland) under King Gorm the Old. Gorm’s son and successor, Harald I (Bluetooth), claimed to have unified Denmark, conquered Norway, and Christianized the Danes.
Destination Denmark, a virtual guide to the Kingdom of Denmark, a Scandinavian country situated on the Jutland Peninsula and several islands, north of Germany. The last dependencies of Denmark are the Faroe Islands and Greenland. The country shares maritime borders with Norway, Sweden, Poland, and the United Kingdom.
At one point, the Danish Viking Sweyn Forkbeard (Svend Tveskæg) and his son Canute the Great (Knud den Store) were the kings not only of Denmark but of Norway, Southern Sweden, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Shetland, Orkney and parts of England. The Vikings travelled widely outside their realm, sailing to what today is Russia and Turkey.
By the 10th century, Denmark had emerged as a recognized kingdom with the Christianization of the Danes under Viking kings like Gorm the Old and Harald Bluetooth, establishing a royal lineage that continues to this day. This makes the Danish monarchy the oldest in Europe.
Initially, in the 10 th century, the Kingdom of Denmark was inclusive of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. All these three states were ruled as one in the struggle for gaining control of the Baltic Sea. Established in 1397, the Kalmar Union led the kingdom until Sweden seceded from the kingdom in 1523.
The King of Denmark, HM King Frederik X (born 1968), has been the sovereign of Denmark since 14 January 2024. HM the King and HM Queen Mary got married in 2004 in the Church of Our Lady, Copenhagen, and since then they have brought four children into the world.