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6,000 BC
- The first human settlers to inhabit Denmark and Scandinavia permanently were the Maglemosian people, residing in seasonal camps and exploiting the land, sea, rivers and lakes. It was not until around 6,000 BC that the approximate geography of Denmark as we know it today had been shaped.
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The first human settlers to inhabit Denmark and Scandinavia permanently were the Maglemosian people, residing in seasonal camps and exploiting the land, sea, rivers and lakes. It was not until around 6,000 BC that the approximate geography of Denmark as we know it today had been shaped.
Beginning in the 4th millennium bce, during the Neolithic Period (New Stone Age), a peasant culture emerged in Denmark as the people living there further developed their stone tools, began keeping livestock, and adopted agriculture.
Denmark was the first country in the world to grant legal recognition to same-sex unions in the form of registered partnerships in 1989. On 7 June 2012, the law was replaced by a new same-sex marriage law , which came into effect on 15 June 2012. [241]
1 day ago · Denmark is the country that occupies the peninsula of Jutland, which extends northward from the center of continental western Europe, and an archipelago of more than 400 islands to the east of that peninsula. Along with Norway and Sweden, Denmark is a part of the northern European region known as Scandinavia.
From 1380-1814 Norway was a part of the Danish kingdom, which is why Iceland the Faroe Islands and Greenland also became Danish colonies. Some facts about Greenland: About 80% of Greenland is covered in ice. Inuit people first inhabited it by moving from present-day Canada 4,000-5,000 years ago.
The first Danish city. From 860, the first church in Scandinavia was built in Ribe under the Jutland Viking King Horik II. The settlement had already been inhabited before this, but developed into the country’s first real town and was one of the most important trading centres in Northern Europe.
The earliest certain signs of human presence in today’s Denmark are from the Old Stone Age approx. 10,000 years ago. The country’s early history is characterized by the change between phases of expansion in the Viking Age and the Middle Ages, and occasionally these periods of disintegration and civil wars.
