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- He carried through domestic reforms, completing the reorganization of the Danish army begun by Valdemar I and granting landed peasants exemption from taxes in return for knight service.
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Apr 12, 2024 · Valdemar II was the king of Denmark (1202–41) who, between 1200 and 1219, extended the Danish Baltic empire from Schleswig in the west to include lands as far east as Estonia. In his later years he worked to unify Denmark’s legal and administrative systems.
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(1223) AND DANISH INFLUENCE IN THE BALTIC. Grethe Jacobsen , University of Wisconsin , Madison. In May of 1223 Count Henry of Schwerin captured King Valdemar II of. Denmark and his son and co-regent, Valdemar III, while they were hunting on the small island of Ly#.
Apr 12, 2024 · King Valdemar "The Victorious" Valdemarson of Denmark Jelling, II. Valdemar Sejr ( Valdemar 2. ( May / June 1170 in Ribe - March 28, 1241 ) in Vordingborg ) was King of Denmark from 1202 until his death. He was the son of Valdemar the Great and Sophia of Minsk . He succeeded his brother Knud VI , who died childless.
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Valdemar (III) the Young (Danish: Valdemar den Unge) (c. 1209 – 28 November 1231) was a Junior King of Denmark from 1215 until his death. Valdemar was the eldest son and co-ruler of King Valdemar II of Denmark by his first wife, Dagmar of Bohemia. He did not outlive his father so was never a sole monarch.
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The prerequisites of contemporary European integration can be traced back to the end of the Second World War. Already in 1947-1948 the Danish government was eager to participate in the Marshall Plan and its institutional expression in the form of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation, which allowed Denmark to restore its economy by the...
The creation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) (Paris Treaty of 1951), the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom) and the European Economic Community (EEC) (the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU); also referred to as the Treaty of Rome, 1957), necessitated the Danish government to align its foreign poli...
A resolution had to therefore be found in the domestic political processes. As a matter of fact, the majority of Danish political parties supported Danish membership of European economic integration. The Liberals (Danmarks Liberale Parti Venstre) and Conservatives (Det Konservative Parti) were staunch supporters of joining the EEC; even more federa...
As the only Nordic member state of the EEC, Denmark soon assumed the role of mediator between the Nordic countries and the EEC. Domestic political conditions throughout the 1970s and 1980s forced the Danish government to pursue a rather restrained policy with regard to deepening integration, especially in the institutional sphere. In particular, De...
Danes voting against the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty in 1992 was an unexpected result for Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, the Danish Foreign Minister at the time, who was one of the most active and staunch supporters of European integration. Ellemann-Jensen had been certain that the Danes "would not just say yes, but yes, please” to the EU. Therefo...
Hjalte Rasmussen, Folkestyre, Grundlov og Højesteret : grundlovens § 20 på prøve[Democracy, Constitution and Supreme Court: § 20 on trial] (København: Christian Ejlers, 1996).Lizaveta Dubinka, 'Evolution of the Danish Foreign Policy towards the EU', Brest State University Journal, 3 (2008), pp. 113-120.Lizaveta Dubinka-Hushcha, Foreign Policy of Denmark (1972-2012), PhD dissertation, (Minsk: Belarusian State University, 2014).Nikolaj Petersen, 'Europæisk og globalt engagement 1973-2006' [European and Global engagement 1973-2006], Dansk Udenrigspolitiks Historie [History of Danish Foreign-Policy], vol. 6. (København: Gyl...Learn about the Jewish population of Denmark, the German occupation, and resistance and rescue in Denmark during WWII and the Holocaust.
Sources. External links. Dagmar of Bohemia (also known as Margaret, Czech: Markéta; c. 1186 – 24 May 1212 in Ribe) was Queen of Denmark as the first spouse of King Valdemar II. She was the daughter of King Ottokar I of Bohemia and his first wife, Adelaide of Meissen. [1] Early life.
