In the 2nd floor. In the 1st millennium, small tribal groups gradually began to unite into a state. In the beginning. 9th c. tribal leader Godfred subjugated Denmark, southern Sweden and Schleswig. In the 10th century Harald Bluetooth introduced Christianity to Denmark. Back in the 8th c. Viking raids began. These campaigns not only pursued… Read More »
Based on map by DigoPaul, Denmark is located in northern Europe and is also the southernmost Scandinavian country. Lying between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, Denmark borders directly on Germany and, separated by water, also on Sweden. As a travel destination, Denmark is perfect for slowing down and offers wonderful nature experiences with… Read More »
Population During the 1990s, the population of the Denmark increased according to a modest annual rate of increase (4 ‰), marking a slight recovery compared to the previous fifteen years; but starting from the first years of the 2000s, zero growth is expected, with a substantial balance between births and deaths and the start of… Read More »
Demography and economic geography State of central-northern Europe, propri. United Kingdom of Denmark, made up of the Denmark (made up of the Jutland peninsula and the Danish archipelago, for a total of 42,915.7 km²), the Faroe Islands and Greenland. After the construction of the futuristic Øresund bridge in 2000, the areas closest to Sweden were… Read More »
ART The most ancient artistic manifestations are from the Bronze Age (1500-400 BC); significant examples of Celtic art date back to the Iron Age. Impressive the flowering of the Viking period (800-1100: tomb of the ships at Ladby in Funen, royal tomb of Jellonge in Jylland, silver, coins) after the Roman period. Little remains of… Read More »
Even a country with a traditionally conservative mentality and suspicious of external influences, such as Denmark, became involved, in the early 1980s, in postmodern international conformity. Thus, alongside a type of cooperative construction of an entirely local nature, a design has been encouraged which, favoring ” contextualisms ” and indiscriminate uses of historicist symbols and… Read More »
Central-northern European state. At the 2002 census, the population was 5,368,354, rising to 5,431,000 at a 2005 estimate. The rate of demographic increase remained rather modest (0.3 % per year in the 2000-2005 interval): but the expected zero growth did not occur, much less the start of a progressive demographic decrease. On the other hand,… Read More »
Denmark State of central and northern Europe. Its territory includes most of the Jylland peninsula, the southernmost part of which belongs to Germany, and a few hundred islands. The Denmark is bathed by the North Sea to the west and the Baltic Sea to the east, connected to each other by straits of different width… Read More »
Between 1975 and 1982 the Denmark was characterized by a strong political instability which caused continuous early elections. The reason for this instability is probably to be found in the economic difficulties that the country has had to face, in a period of international oil crisis, with constantly increasing inflation and unemployment and a progressive… Read More »
The Danish population, according to the census surveys of 1972, rises to just under 5 million people, with an average density of 115 residents per km 2, and shows a fairly regular rate of increase, estimated at around 7% per year in the last decade. While remaining the most densely populated Scandinavian country, the Denmark… Read More »
Population. – According to the 1955 census the population of Denmark was 4.448.401 residents, Showing an increase from the previous census (1945) of 403.169 units; in the last century the population has tripled and the increase has occurred not only in the big cities, but also in the countryside; the birth rate remains high although… Read More »
Foreign Trade. – The geographic situation of Denmark and its specialization in some branches of industry have made it more or less dependent on imports and exports: the country has benefited from great commercial advantages; in fact 9.9% of the population lives on trade; few other countries have such a high percentage. In the middle… Read More »
Population. – According to the census of November 5, 1940, the population of Denmark (excluding the Faeroes) was 3,844,322 residents, distributed as follows: The summary results of the June 1, 1945 census gave a population of 4,045,232 residents distributed as follows: Copenhagen (927.404), Islands (1.291.722), Jütland (1.826.056). In the period 1940-45 the population had an… Read More »
More than 70% of the country is agricultural land and about 8% is covered with forest. Before the land was cleared, these extended over almost all of Denmark, but even where the forest was not cleared for cultivation, it gradually deteriorated; the free livestock and the excessive quantity of game caused great damage to the… Read More »
The continuous wars, combined with the general collapse of prices, disastrous for agriculture, which occurred in the first half of the century. XVII, greatly impoverished Denmark. Nor did the situation change with the death of Christian IV and the advent to the throne of his son, Ederic.III (1648-70). Although the king had to enter into… Read More »
The work of Queen Margherita, who died in 1412, was compromised under her successors. The first, Erik of Pomerania (1412-39), faced a revolt by the Swedes, and was deposed in 1439. During the reign of his successor, C ristosoro di Baviera (1439-48), who was subsequently elected in all three kingdoms, there was the progressive and… Read More »
The reign of Erik Plovpenning (1241-1250), son and successor of Valdemaro II, was again marked by continuous struggles between the king and his brothers, who received large parts of the country as a fief. And since King C ristoforo I (1252-59), who succeeded A bele of Schleswig (1250-52), had to grant Schleswig as a hereditary… Read More »
Naturalism was their starting point, indeed, for a moment it was even their faith. Only their nature – romantically rich and singing in the first, romantically delicate in the second – led them spontaneously to a new art: impressionism. And impressionism was in fact the 90’s “the password”. First of all, the literature of romantic… Read More »
A movement analogous to that of “Young Germany” was what followed. Poetry, he told himself, must be placed at the service of life. The weekly directed by Goldschmidt was entitled Il Corsaro ; and the elegance of his combative prose made him a master of journalism as well as of novel prose (En Jøde). All… Read More »
The figure of Holberg reigns supreme over all. Favored by numerous trips abroad (he was also in Italy and spent a winter in Rome) he inserted Danish poetry in the great currents in European poetry of the time, thus freeing it both from provincialism and from the uniform imitation of German poetry. Eighteenth-century Danish comic… Read More »
The whole of the seventeenth century was nothing but the further development of this “Renaissance”. Since the humanistic attraction towards the occult aspects of nature and life was associated with the impression produced by Luther’s words on the evil one always present and operating among men, a whole strangely rich literature on magic, witchcraft and… Read More »
As in Germany, also in Denmark, the Reform movement was born from the humanistic movement, which in the second half of the century. XV had arrived there partly by way of Paris, and above all by way of Holland; and in 1479 the university organized by Peder Albertsen had opened, as an expression of the… Read More »
Other Visers concern the two wives of Valdemaro the winner, the kind Dagmar (Dronning Dagmar og Junker Strange ; Dronning Dagmars Død) and the perfidious Berengaria (Dronning Bengerd). The peak is reached in the middle of the century. XIV with the cycle on Marsk Stig (Marskstigviserne), on King Erik who let himself be seduced by… Read More »
The age that followed that of the Valdemari was above all one of erudition. A typical work is the encyclopedic collection of Christian principles, religious ceremonies, scientific and geographical knowledge, various news, which goes under the title of Lucidarius: the Danish text is from the 13th century. XIV. And it was a widely read work:… Read More »
The Danish people are among the few who have not known, at least in historical times, foreign domination, which created particularly favorable conditions for the emergence of a national literature. The runic inscriptions – which for Denmark have been preserved up to us in number of about 200 – testify in their epigraphic brevity its… Read More »
After various experiences in the wake of the nouveau roman, Madsen has managed to conquer the public by exploiting the potential of the various types of traditional novel, used as linguistic models for ironic and sophisticated manipulations of different styles and languages (from sentimental to adventurous, from pornographic to detective story, from fantastic to science… Read More »
After the extreme politicization of the Seventies and the various attempts to subvert the literary institution by bold avant-gardes, it seems to sense a change in climate, a renewed need for formal values, a new faith in the intrinsic value of poetry, a weary abandonment of ideologies. But it is not easy to identify a… Read More »
Meanwhile, the ideas of a Denmark up to the Eider were returning to appear; and Scandinavism, which aspired to an alliance with Sweden-Norway, revived. To second the program of the former, Hall, president of ministers since 1857, resolved to give a single government to Denmark and Schleswig; what was done in November 1863, just when… Read More »
Thus, on the death of Frederick VI in 1839, the Danish monarchy found itself in the midst of conflicts: internal political conflict between liberal tendencies and absolutism, and national conflict between Danes and Germans. The accession to the throne of Frederick VI’s cousin, C ristiano VIII (1839-48), was welcomed with great hopes by the liberals,… Read More »
While Bernstorff’s death interrupted the policy of internal reforms for a time, it also had serious repercussions in foreign policy. Having England demanded the right to visit Danish merchant ships, and Denmark having concluded a new alliance in defense of armed neutrality with Sweden, Russia and Prussia, war broke out with England. On April 2,… Read More »