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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"
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.
People from former Danish colonies (2 C) Danish Gold Coast (1 C, 13 P) ... Pages in category "Danish overseas colonies" The following 6 pages are in this category ...
People from former Danish colonies (2 C) I. Danish India (7 C, 12 P) W. Danish West Indies (6 C, 13 P) Pages in category "Former Danish colonies"