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Denmark remained neutral during World War I, but the conflict affected the country to a considerable extent. As its economy was heavily based on exports, the unrestricted German submarine warfare was a serious problem. Denmark had no choice but to sell many of its exports to Germany instead of overseas nations.
The term Danish Empire may refer to: . The North Sea Empire of Cnut the Great (1016–1035); The Danish colonial empire in North America, the West Indies, the Gold Coast and India
A historical companion to postcolonial literatures: Continental Europe and Its Empires (Edinburgh UP, 2008), "Denmark and its colonies" pp 58-105. excerpt; Richards, Helen. "Distant garden: Moravian missions and the culture of slavery in the Danish West Indies, 1732-1848." Journal of Moravian History (2007): 55-74. online; Røge, Pernille.
The Holy Roman Empire at its greatest territorial extent imposed over ... This culminated in a war with the sovereign Kingdom of Denmark from 1361 to 1370. The league ...
The Kalmar Union [a] was a personal union in Scandinavia, agreed at Kalmar in Sweden as designed by Queen Margaret of Denmark. From 1397 to 1523, [1] it joined under a single monarch the three kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden (then including much of present-day Finland), and Norway, together with Norway's overseas colonies [b] (then including Iceland, Greenland, [c] the Faroe Islands, and the ...
Denmark is known for its relatively high trust in its system, as 44% of Danes reported high or moderately high trust in the government to OECD. That’s compared to the national average of 39%.
Denmark is a representative democracy with universal suffrage. [N 12] Membership of the Folketing is based on proportional representation of political parties, [92] with a 2% electoral threshold. Denmark elects 175 members to the Folketing, with Greenland and the Faroe Islands electing an additional two members each—179 members in total. [93]
This ephemeral Norse-ruled empire was a thalassocracy, its components only connected by and dependent upon the sea. [2] The first king to unite all three kingdoms was Sweyn Forkbeard, king of Denmark since 986 and of Norway since 1000, when he conquered England in 1013. He died in the following year, and his realm was divided.