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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 ...
So can those ending in -ch / -tch (e.g. "the French", "the Dutch") provided they are pronounced with a 'ch' sound (e.g. the adjective Czech does not qualify). Many place-name adjectives and many demonyms are also used for various other things, sometimes with and sometimes without one or more additional words.
Denmark has considerably large deposits of oil and natural gas in the North Sea and ranks as number 32 in the world among net exporters of crude oil [166] and was producing 259,980 barrels of crude oil a day in 2009. [167] Denmark is a long-time leader in wind power: In 2015 wind turbines provided 42.1% of the total electricity consumption. [168]
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.
In October 1644, a combined Dutch-Swedish fleet destroyed 80 percent of the Danish fleet in the Battle of Femern. The result of this defeat proved disastrous for Denmark–Norway : in the Second treaty of Brömsebro (1645) Denmark ceded to Sweden the Norwegian provinces Jemtland , Herjedalen and Älvdalen as well as the Danish islands of ...
D: English name Names in different languages Democratic Republic of the Congo: Cộng hòa Dân chủ Công-gô (Vietnamese), Demakratyčnaja Respublika Konha - Дэмакратычная Рэспубліка Конга (Belarusian), Demokratia Respubliko Kongo (Esperanto), Demokratičeskaja Respublika Kongo - Демократическая Республика Конго (Russian ...
The Dutch immigrants were exempt from Danish taxation and were given privileges such as being allowed to hunt most wild animals and having their own judicial system until 1823. Several names in the area and some surnames in Denmark give away the Dutch influences.
The Danish, Norwegian and Swedish name for the country of Denmark, see Etymology of Denmark; The minor locality of Danmark in Uppsala Municipality, Sweden; Danmark is also a common ship's name: Danish ironclad Danmark, an armoured frigate, 1864–1900; Danmark, a three-masted bark used on the Danmark Expedition 1906–1908