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Early history. Denmark has been inhabited by various Germanic peoples since ancient times, including the Angles, Cimbri, Jutes, Herules, Teutones and others. [31] Viking Age. Ogier the Dane ( Holger Danske) at Kronborg Castle is an important national icon from the Viking age.
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Jan 10, 2018 · We know that our species originated in Africa and likely reached Europe from the southeast no later than 42,000 years ago. During the last ice age some 33,000-20,000 years ago, when a permanent ice...
- Jan Apel
Danish history starts around 14,000 years ago with the first human settlers on the main body of Denmark in what is now called Jutland — appropriately enough since it juts out into the Baltic Sea north of Germany.
History and Ethnic Relations. Emergence of the Nation. Denmark is a constitutional monarchy and the oldest kingdom in Europe. According to historical sources it dates back to the ninth century, but myth dates it as far back as the sixth century.
Mar 25, 2023 · Where are Danes originally from? The first inhabitants in the country that we now call Denmark are thought to have migrated there from southern and eastern Europe at the end of the last Ice Age – around 10,000 BC.
- Amanda Tomlin
The Danes were a North Germanic tribe inhabiting southern Scandinavia, including the area now comprising Denmark proper, northern and eastern England, and the Scanian provinces of modern-day southern Sweden, during the Nordic Iron Age and the Viking Age.
The history of Denmark as a unified kingdom began in the 8th century, but historic documents describe the geographic area and the people living there—the Danes—as early as 500 AD. These early documents include the writings of Jordanes and Procopius.
