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The Danish ethnic minority in Southern Schleswig, Germany, has existed by this name since 1920, when the Schleswig Plebiscite split German-ruled Schleswig into two parts: Northern Schleswig with a Danish majority and a German minority was united with Denmark, while Southern Schleswig remained a part of Germany and had a German majority and ...
The Danish placenames in Southern Schleswig are used by the local Danish minority and their media, while some in Denmark may avoid using them for political reasons. The use of German placenames in North Slesvig is similarly preferred by the local German minority (when speaking and writing German), but traditionally shunned by many Danes in the ...
Learn Danish banner in Flensburg, one of the major cities of Southern Schleswig. Besides Standard German, Low Saxon dialects (Schleswigsch) are spoken, as well as Danish (Standard Danish or South Schleswig Danish) and its South Jutlandic variant, plus North Frisian in the west. [11] Danish and North Frisian are official minority languages.
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.
North Schleswig and other German territories lost in both World Wars are shown in black, present-day Germany is marked dark grey on this 1914 map. The northern Zone I voted en bloc, i.e. as a unit with the majority deciding, and the result was 75% for Denmark and 25% for Germany, consequently resulting in a German minority north of the new ...
Flensborg Avis is a Danish language daily newspaper, published in Flensburg (Danish: Flensborg), Germany. It regularly cooperates with Flensburger Tageblatt , a German majority newspaper in the city, and Der Nordschleswiger , a German minority newspaper published in Denmark .
Valdemar's Wall, part of the medieval Danevirke fortifications on the former Dano-German border. Modern northern outskirts of Germany formed part of Denmark in the Middle Ages, including the major medieval Danish city of Hedeby, and the town of Schleswig (Danish: Slesvig), founded in the mid-11th century after the destruction of Hebedy.
Southern Schleswig Danish (Danish: Sydslesvigdansk, German: Südschleswigdänisch) is a variety of the Danish language spoken in Southern Schleswig in Northern Germany.It is a variety of Standard Danish (rigsmål, rigsdansk) influenced by the surrounding German language in relation to prosody, syntax and morphology, used by the Danish minority in Southern Schleswig.