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    In the ethnic or cultural sense the term "Scandinavian" traditionally refers to speakers of Scandinavian languages, who are mainly descendants of the peoples historically known as Norsemen, but also to some extent of immigrants and others who have been assimilated into that culture and language.

  2. Dec 7, 2022 · Is Scandinavian & Nordic Different? Scandinavia in the modern sense usually refers to the Scandinavian countries of Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. The larger northern European region made up of the Scandinavian countries as well as Finland, Iceland, Faroe Islands, and Greenland is called the Nordics.

  3. The peninsula has been inhabited for at least 12,000 years, and is considered one of the world’s most ethnically homogenous regions: most Scandinavians are tall of stature with fair hair and skin. Historical inner-European migratory patterns have scattered Scandinavian DNA all across Western Europe.

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  5. Sep 22, 2023 · Scandinavia, the Nordics, or why not the Land of Vikings — the region has been called many things over the years. Here’s everything you need to know about the Scandinavian and Nordic countries; where and who we are, what the culture is like here, and how we look and behave.

  6. Summary. The word ‘Scandinavia’ first occurs in the Naturalis historia of Pliny the Elder (d. AD 79), in the form of Scadinavia or Scatinavia. In later manuscripts of this work an n was added in the first syllable and the name became Scandinavia, as it still is. Pliny used the name to denote what he believed to be a large island in the Baltic.

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