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2 days ago · Introducing Scandinavia: The Land of the Vikings. When we generally hear about or think of Scandinavia, we instinctively think of Nordic mythology and the rich history of the Vikings. However, it might surprise you that there’s a debate revolving around the differences that distinguish the Scandinavian and Nordic regions and the similarities ...
1 day ago · It’s so far away from Oslo that anyone willing to drive beyond the Arctic Circle to hit the latitude 68 degrees north (the same as Alaska, Greenland, and Siberia) to get there, would spend at least a couple of days doing so —or attempt to drive 22 hours non-stop (with two or more drivers?). A campervan and no deadline would do it.
5 days ago · Norway, country of northern Europe that occupies the western half of the Scandinavian peninsula. Nearly half of the inhabitants of the country live in the far south, in the region around Oslo, the capital. About two-thirds of Norway is mountainous, and off its much-indented coastline lie, carved by deep glacial fjords, some 50,000 islands.
3 days ago · Norwegian immigrants went to the United States primarily in the latter half of the 19th century and the first few decades of the 20th century. There are more than 4.5 million Norwegian Americans, according to the 2021 U.S. census; most live in the Upper Midwest and on the West Coast of the United States.
5 days ago · Armenian (about 3.5 million) In addition, there are also smaller sub-groups within the Indo-European languages of Europe, including: Baltic, including Latvian, Lithuanian, Samogitian and Latgalian. Celtic, including Breton, Cornish, Irish, Manx, Welsh, and Scottish Gaelic. Iranic, mainly Ossetian in the Caucasus.
1 day ago · Viking expansion was the historical movement which led Norse explorers, traders and warriors, the latter known in modern scholarship as Vikings, to sail most of the North Atlantic, reaching south as far as North Africa and east as far as Russia, and through the Mediterranean as far as Constantinople and the Middle East, acting as looters, traders, colonists and mercenaries.
4 days ago · Nope, unfortunately. Scandinavian Adventurer invasions will only stop once all the 4 base game North Germanic cultures are in the Early Medieval era. Which, depending on when the AI cultural heads of those cultures chooses to convert to a reformed faith and feudalize, could be a very long time. Not to mention the possibility of one of them not ...
