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  2. Viking expansion - Wikipedia

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    Viking expansion was the historical movement which led Norse explorers, traders and warriors, the latter known in modern scholarship as Vikings, to sail most of the North Atlantic, reaching south as far as North Africa and east as far as Russia, and through the Mediterranean as far as Constantinople and the Middle East, acting as looters, traders, colonists and mercenaries.

  3. Vikings - Wikipedia

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    Viking expeditions (blue line): depicting the immense breadth of their voyages through most of Europe, the Mediterranean Sea, Northern Africa, Asia Minor, the Arctic, and North America. Lower Normandy , depicted as a "Viking territory in 911", was not part of the lands granted by the king of the Franks to Rollo in 911, but Upper Normandy .

  4. Vikings in Iberia - Wikipedia

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    A street plate in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, with Siglas poveiras (describing names of local families), supposedly related to Scandinavian Bomärken. [6]In medieval Latin sources about Iberia, the Vikings are usually referred to as normanni ('northmen') and gens normannorum or gens nordomannorum ('race of the northmen'), along with forms in l- like lordomanni apparently reflecting nasal ...

  5. Route from the Varangians to the Greeks - Wikipedia

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    The second book of Henry Treece's Viking Trilogy, The Road to Miklagard, published in the late 1950s describes a Viking voyage through the Mediterranean to Constantinople, where the main characters are taken as slaves and later become members of the Varangian Guards. They eventually make their way back to their home village via the trade route.

  6. North Sea Empire - Wikipedia

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    The North Sea Empire, also known as the Anglo-Scandinavian Empire, was the personal union of the kingdoms of England, Denmark [a] and Norway for most of the period between 1013 and 1042 towards the end of the Viking Age. [1] This ephemeral Norse-ruled empire was a thalassocracy, its components only connected by and dependent upon the sea. [2]

  7. Viking Age - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 13 December 2024. Period of European history (about 800–1050) Viking Age picture stone, Gotland, Sweden. Part of a series on Scandinavia Countries Denmark Finland Iceland Norway Sweden History History by country Åland Denmark Faroe Islands Finland Greenland Iceland Norway Scotland Sweden Chronological ...

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