enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Danes - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danes

    Danes (Danish: danskere, pronounced [ˈtænskɐɐ]), or Danish people, are an ethnic group and nationality native to Denmark and a modern nation identified with the country of Denmark. [27] This connection may be ancestral, legal, historical, or cultural.

  3. Denmark - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark

    Denmark [a] is a Nordic country in Northern Europe.It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark, [N 7] also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the autonomous territories of the Faroe Islands and Greenland in the north Atlantic Ocean. [11]

  4. Danes (tribe) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danes_(tribe)

    The Danes were a North Germanic tribe inhabiting southern Scandinavia, including the area now comprising Denmark proper, northern and eastern England, ...

  5. History of Denmark - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Denmark

    In the new southern provinces, the Danes promoted Christianity (mission of the Rani, monasteries like Eldena Abbey) and settlement (Danish participation in the Ostsiedlung). The Danes lost most of their southern gains after the Battle of Bornhöved (1227), but the Rugian principality stayed with Denmark until 1325. Northern countries in 1219

  6. Danish Realm - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_Realm

    The Constitution of the Kingdom of Denmark refers to the state's territory as Danmarks Rige (Danish Realm), which means "The Realm of Denmark". [23] [24] [25]The Danish term rigsfællesskabet, translated as "The unity of the Realm", [18] the "commonwealth of the Realm", [26] [27] or the "Danish Commonwealth" [28] refers to the constitutional status of the relationship between Denmark, the ...

  7. Danish - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish

    A Danish person, also called a "Dane", can be a national or citizen of Denmark (see Demographics of Denmark) Culture of Denmark; Danish people or Danes, people with a Danish ancestral or ethnic identity; A member of the Danes, a Germanic tribe; Danish (name), a male given name and surname

  8. Danish language - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_language

    Danish is a Germanic language of the North Germanic branch.Other names for this group are the Nordic [14] or Scandinavian languages. Along with Swedish, Danish descends from the Eastern dialects of the Old Norse language; Danish and Swedish are also classified as East Scandinavian or East Nordic languages.

  9. Etymology of Denmark - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_Denmark

    The etymology of the name Denmark (Danish: Danmark), especially the relationship between Danes and Denmark and the unification of Denmark as a single kingdom, is the cause of some debate. [1] [2] In Old Norse, the country was called Danmǫrk, referring to the Danish March, viz. the marches of the Danes. The Latin and Greek name is Dania ...