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Danish overseas colonies and Dano-Norwegian colonies (Danish: De danske kolonier) were the colonies that Denmark–Norway (Denmark after 1814) possessed from 1537 until 1953. At its apex, the colonies spanned four continents: Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America.
Danish India; Danish overseas colonies; Danish West Indies; Danish colonization of the Americas; References This page was last edited on 10 February 2025, at 10:26 ...
Danish overseas colonies (7 C, 6 P) F. Former populated places in Denmark (1 C, 9 P) ... Pages in category "Historical geography of Denmark"
Part of a series on European colonization of the Americas First wave Basque British (Scottish) Curonian Danish Dutch French German Hospitaller Italian Norse Portuguese Russian Spanish Swedish Colonization of Canada Colonization of the United States Decolonization History portal Denmark and the former real union of Denmark–Norway had a colonial empire from the 17th through to the 20th ...
Denmark–Norway (Danish and Norwegian: Danmark–Norge) is a term for the 16th-to-19th-century multi-national and multi-lingual real union consisting of the Kingdom of Denmark, the Kingdom of Norway (including the then Norwegian overseas possessions: the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, and other possessions), the Duchy of Schleswig, and the Duchy of Holstein.
Danish colonizers in the West Indies aimed to exploit the profitable triangular trade, involving the export of firearms and other manufactured goods to Africa in exchange for slaves, who were then transported to the Caribbean to work the sugar plantations. Caribbean colonies, in turn, exported sugar, rum and molasses to Denmark.
The area under Danish influence was over 10,000 square kilometres. [1] The five Danish Gold Coast Territorial Settlements and forts of the Kingdom of Denmark were sold to the United Kingdom in 1850. Denmark had wanted to sell these colonies for some time as the expenses required to run the colonies had increased following the abolition of slavery.
Disestablishments in the Danish colonial empire (3 C) E. ... Pages in category "Danish overseas colonies" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.