Denmark
Denmark (from Old Norse: Danes marks) is a country in Scandinavia, situated in northern Europe. Denmark called together with Greenland and the Faroe Islands officially Kingdom of Denmark. Denmark borders Germany to the south and is surrounded by seas: the North Sea (North Sea), the Skagerrak and Kattegat in the west, north and east coast of Jutland, Kattegat and Baltic Sea, north and south of the Danish islands. Denmark consists of the peninsula of Jutland and 406 named islands, islets and islets.
The earliest traces of human presence in Denmark today began 100,000 years ago, although the area was first inhabited during the Palaeolithic. During the Viking period and afterward were the Danish incommunicado greater importance, including participation in the Kalmar Union and other unions. Renaissance meant a significant shift in Denmark, when the Reformation took place. The Danish constitution was signed fifth June 1849, signaling the start of a democratic form of government. Germany occupied Denmark during the second World War and the end of the war, Denmark was liberated. Subsequently, the country has entered into NATO and later the EC (now EU). The country has experienced a large influx of immigrants in the 80s and 90s. Today it is dominated by the Muhammad cartoons that rocked the Muslim world.
The Danish population is a mix of ethnic Danes and immigrants estimated to be around. 5.5 million inhabitants. The Danes are in their own consciousness also the happiest people in the world.
Danish is the official language. Denmark is a constitutional monarchy and the prime minister serves as head of government, while the parliament is the legislature. The country is divided into 5 regions and 98 municipalities. Denmark viewed with a GDP of U.S. $ 203,519 billion as a rich country, with over half of the working population is employed in services.
History
The Danish history before the Stone Age hear most of geological history, because there are not many signs of people. However, it has been found flint tools Himmerland and the Little Belt, which suggest human activity in the area about 100,000 years ago in the Eem interglacial, where the climate has been roughly the same to what we have today. approx. 15,000 years ago ice began to give way north in a climate change. Here, live reindeer hunters and was replaced later by other tribes who made their living by hunting and fishing over the millennia.
For approx. 6,000 years ago (the years around 4000 BC) was succeeded by Stone Age Neolithic period, which in turn was succeeded by the Bronze Age (years around 1700 BC) and Iron Age (years around 500 BC)., which was divided into several periods: Celtic Iron Age, Roman Iron Age and Migration Period. Already in the late Iron Age, ie. in 700-number, there may have existed a strong Danish central power. Here it could be colossal fortification Dannevirke and Kanhavekanalen Samsoe be a “proof.”
History ended with the Viking Age, when the Danish Vikings began to raid and act in most of Europe. The Vikings began to demand the “Danegeld, which meant that the kings of England paid taxes to the Danish king to avoid looting. Danish and Scandinavian Vikings played most of the Viking a great power role in Europe, including because of the strong fleet. Later turned outward journey during Canute the Great, when the Viking empire was weakened and England lost. As Svend Estridsen got the throne in 1047, was Denmark’s time as the Vikings power past.
With the end of what historians of antiquity called it begins Denmark, which has Jelling stones and Gorm the Old as the first king of the Danish kings. The Danish story begins in the 8th century, when the first written sources begin to mention the situation here. In this way the Viking Age transition between antiquity and the medieval Danish.
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