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In May 1998, Viking Office Products merged with Office Depot. The following year the company began to move online, launching an e-commerce site www.viking-direct.co.uk[4] and subsequently websites in other countries. For a short period, they also operated as a standalone European business.
By 896, Viking raiders are again mentioned as active in the Loire and Oise valleys, and bands continued raiding in the Seine basin and northern Aquitaine into the early 10th century. [16] Rather than completely subduing the Viking raiders, the Battle of the Dyle merely ensured a period of short-lived peace in Francia.
The company was established by Torstein Hagen in St. Petersburg, Russia as Viking River Cruises in 1997. Hagen had become involved in cruising as a McKinsey and Company consultant who helped the Holland America Line survive the 1973 oil crisis, then was CEO of the Royal Viking Line from 1980 to 1984, made money in the Russian private equity markets, then bought a controlling stake in a Dutch ...
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The Viking Age is the term denoting the years from about 700 to 1100 in European history. It was a formative period in Scandinavian history . Norse people explored Europe by its oceans and rivers through trade and warfare.
Death of Lambert of Maastricht: murdered at a site that would become Liège. [3]: 17 [6] 717: See of Maastricht moved to the location of Lambert of Maastricht's murder, now Liège. 727: 30 May: Death of Hubertus, Bishop of Liège. [3]: 17 748: 2 April: Birth of Charlemagne, first Holy Roman Emperor. [7]
Gedser at Travemünde in August 1982.. Launched as the Gedser she served between Gedser (Denmark) and Travemunde (Germany) from 1976 until 1986 when she was acquired by Sally Line and she was renamed the Viking 2 where she entered service for Sally Line between Ramsgate (UK) and Dunkerque (France), in 1988 she was renamed the Sally Sky and then in 1997 the Eurotraveller where she entered ...
The Viking raids in the Rhineland were part of a series of invasions of Francia by the Vikings that took place during the final decades of the 9th century. From the Rhineland, which can be regarded as the nucleus of Frankish culture, the Franks had previously conquered almost the whole of Central Europe and established a great empire.