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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.
Flag-map of The Danish Colonial Empire at it's peak. All lands ruled by Denmark-Norway (Including factories and Trading posts) The following were trading posts and settlements owned by the Danish colonial empire and respective Chartered companies:
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.
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 ...
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.
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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.
This is a list of territories and polities that have been considered colonies. Colonies of European countries ... with Overseas Countries and ... Danish India; Danish ...