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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. Viking (cruise line) - Wikipedia

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   The company was established by Torstein Hagen in St. Petersburg, Russia as Viking River Cruises in 1997. Hagen had become involved in cruising as a McKinsey and Company consultant who helped the Holland America Line survive the 1973 oil crisis, then was CEO of the Royal Viking Line from 1980 to 1984, made money in the Russian private equity markets, then bought a controlling stake in a Dutch ...

4. Vikings - Wikipedia

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   The romanticised idea of the Vikings constructed in scholarly and popular circles in northwestern Europe in the 19th and early 20th centuries was a potent one, and the figure of the Viking became a familiar and malleable symbol in different contexts in the politics and political ideologies of 20th-century Europe. [243]

5. File:Viking Expansion.svg - Wikipedia

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   Based on the blank Europe map available on the Commons. The enclosed legend is as follows: {{legend|#800000|eighth c: 20:20, 24 June 2007: 793 × 521 (1.26 MB) Max Naylor~commonswiki == Summary == {{Information |Description=An SVG version of this image. Created with Adobe Illustrator CS3. Based on the blank Europe map available on the Commons.

6. Norse colonization of North America - Wikipedia

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   Vinland map. During the mid-1960s, Yale University announced the acquisition of a map purportedly drawn around 1440 that showed Vinland and a legend concerning Norse voyages to the region. [125] However certain experts doubted the authenticity of the map, based on linguistic and cartographic inconsistencies.

7. Viking Age - Wikipedia

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   This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 February 2025. 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 ...