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In 1521, king Christian II of Denmark invited 184 Dutch farmers to settle on the island of Amager in exchange for supplying the Palace of Copenhagen with vegetables. 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.
The personnel present were taken to the Dutch Fort Nassau located further east in Sabu. The Dutch raids against Danish vessels in the area continued and in 1662, [2] two Danish ships were attacked and captured. Several other ships were also targeted, but in many instances, the Danes managed to repel the Dutch attacks. [2] [8]
The Dano-Swedish War of 1658–1660 was a war between Denmark–Norway and Sweden, with the former backed by the Dutch Republic and Poland.It is known in Denmark as the Second Karl Gustav War (Danish: Anden Karl Gustav-krig), in Norway as Bjelkes Feud (Norwegian: Bjelkefeiden) in Sweden as Karl Gustav's Second Danish War (Swedish: Karl Gustavs andra danska krig), and in the Netherlands as the ...
Danish, Norwegian (including both written forms: Bokmål, the most common standard form; and Nynorsk) and Swedish are all descended from Old Norse, the common ancestor of all North Germanic languages spoken today. Thus, they are closely related, and largely mutually intelligible, particularly in their standard varieties. The largest differences ...
King Frederik, who assumed the Danish throne after the abdication of Queen Margrethe II last year, has tweaked the royal coat of arms for the first time in more than 500 years, a move that was ...
Traveller Danish, Rodi, and Swedish Romani are varieties of Danish, Norwegian and Swedish with Romani vocabulary or Para-Romani known collectively as the Scandoromani language. [38] They are spoken by Norwegian and Swedish Travellers. The Scando-Romani varieties in Sweden and Norway combine elements from the dialects of Western Sweden, Eastern ...
This is a list of wars and war-like conflicts involving the modern Kingdom of Denmark and predecessor states. Danish victory Danish defeat Another result * *e.g. result unknown or indecisive/inconclusive, result of internal conflict inside Denmark, status quo ante bellum, or a treaty or peace without a clear result.
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.