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  2. Danish minority of Southern Schleswig - Wikipedia

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    Old Danish was spoken north of a line between the Eider, Treene and Eckernförde Bay. But in the 17th, 18th and up to the 19th centuries there was a language shift from Danish and North Frisian dialects to Low German and later to High German as common speech in Southern Schleswig. Many German-minded Schleswigians therefore have ethnic Danish roots.

  3. German minority in Denmark - Wikipedia

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    Flag of the Germans of North Schleswig. Approximately 15,000 people in Denmark belong to an autochthonous ethnic German minority traditionally referred to as hjemmetyskere, meaning "Home Germans" in Danish, and as Nordschleswiger in German. [1] They are Danish citizens and most self-identify as ethnic Germans.

  4. List of Danish flags - Wikipedia

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    A medieval ship flag captured from a Danish ship by forces from Lübeck: Kalmar Union flag. Kalmar Union flag. The flag of Scania: The flag of Halland. The flag of Blekinge. The flag of Blekinge. The flag of Denmark-Gdańsk: The flag of Denmark-Norway: Former flag of Kristiansand, Denmark-Norway. 1814-1851: Flag of Schleswig-Holstein: Flag of ...

  5. Schleswig-Holstein - Wikipedia

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    Schleswig-Holstein (German: [ˌʃleːsvɪç ˈhɔlʃtaɪn] ⓘ; Danish: Slesvig-Holsten [ˌsle̝ːsvi ˈhʌlˌste̝ˀn]; Low German: Sleswig-Holsteen; North Frisian: Slaswik-Holstiinj; occasionally in English Sleswick-Holsatia [5]) is the northernmost of the 16 states of Germany, comprising most of the historical Duchy of Holstein and the ...

  6. Danes - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Denmark during World War I - Wikipedia

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    Denmark maintained trade with both sides of the war, and was among several neutral countries that exported canned meat to the German army. Danish speculators made fortunes on canned meat products, which were often of mediocre quality, while 275 Danish merchant ships were sunk, and approximately 700 Danish sailors perished during the war.

  8. 1920 Schleswig plebiscites - Wikipedia

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    Areas of historic settlements Map of Schleswig / South Jutland before the plebiscites.. The Duchy of Schleswig had been a fiefdom of the Danish crown since the Middle Ages, but it, along with the Danish-ruled German provinces of Holstein and Lauenburg, which had both been part of the Holy Roman Empire, was conquered by Prussia and Austria in the 1864 Second War of Schleswig.

  9. Schleswig–Holstein question - Wikipedia

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    The Schleswig–Holstein question (German: Schleswig-Holsteinische Frage; Danish: Spørgsmålet om Sønderjylland og Holsten) was a complex set of diplomatic and other issues arising in the 19th century from the relations of two duchies, Schleswig (Sønderjylland/Slesvig) and Holstein (Holsten), to the Danish Crown, to the German Confederation ...

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