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17 hours ago · The English Church, 1000–1066 (2nd ed.). London: Longman. Bolton, Timothy (2009). The Empire of Cnut the Great: Conquest and the Consolidation of Power in Northern Europe in the Early Eleventh Century. The Northern World. North Europe and the Baltic c. 400–1700 A.D.: Peoples, Economies and Cultures. Vol. 40. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04 ...
- Edmund Ironside
Edmund Ironside (c. 990 – 30 November 1016; Old English:...
- Harold Harefoot
Paternity Cnut, king of England, Denmark, and Norway, and...
- North Sea Empire
The North Sea Empire, also known as the Anglo-Scandinavian...
- Emma of Normandy
Emma of Normandy (referred to as Ælfgifu in royal documents;...
- Edmund Ironside
17 hours ago · Situation map for 24:00, 6 June 1944. The Normandy landings were the largest seaborne invasion in history, with nearly 5,000 landing and assault craft, 289 escort vessels, and 277 minesweepers participating. Nearly 160,000 troops crossed the English Channel on D-Day, with 875,000 men disembarking by the end of June.
- 6 June 1944
- Allied victory [8]
17 hours ago · Copenhagen (Danish: København [kʰøpm̩ˈhɑwˀn] ⓘ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of approximately 660,000 in the municipality and 1.4 million in the urban area.
17 hours ago · The English word Germany derives from the Latin Germania, which came into use after Julius Caesar adopted it for the peoples east of the Rhine. The German term Deutschland, originally diutisciu land ('the German lands') is derived from deutsch (cf. Dutch), descended from Old High German diutisc 'of the people' (from diot or diota 'people'), originally used to distinguish the language of the ...
17 hours ago · Norway Peter I Island: 1933 Australia Australian Antarctic Territory: 44°38′E to 136°11′E, and 142°2′E to 160°00′E 1939 Norway Queen Maud Land: 20°00′W to 44°38′E 1940 Chile Chilean Antarctic Territory: 90°0′W to 53°0′W
17 hours ago · The two official languages are Maltese, the only Semitic language in Europe and the European Union, and English. The country's capital is Valletta . With a population of about 519,000 [8] over an area of 316 km 2 (122 sq mi), [7] Malta is the tenth-smallest country by area [18] [19] and the fifth most densely populated sovereign state.
17 hours ago · Schleswig-Holstein (pronounced [ˌʃleːsvɪç ˈhɔlʃtaɪn] ⓘ; Danish: Slesvig-Holsten [ˌsle̝ːsvi ˈhʌlˌste̝ˀn]; Low German: Sleswig-Holsteen; North Frisian: Slaswik-Holstiinj; English: Sleswick-Holsatia) is the northernmost of the 16 states of Germany, comprising most of the historical Duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Schleswig.
