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1 day ago · Norwegian (Norwegian: norsk [ˈnɔʂːk] ⓘ) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family spoken mainly in Norway, where it is an official language. Along with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a dialect continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional varieties; some Norwegian and Swedish dialects ...
2 hours ago · Results contradict the modern image of the typical Viking as a blonde-haired Scandinavian warrior. Instead, the researchers uncovered ancestral diversity in Viking communities both within Scandinavia and across Europe, including Ireland. Findings of the study show sharp ancestral differences between English and Irish Vikings.
2 hours ago · Alongside Indigenous languages of the Arctic are the majority languages of Arctic colonizers and national governments of which the Arctic is a part, namely Danish, English, Finnish, Norwegian, Russian, and Swedish. Other common languages are French, German, Icelandic, and Japanese. Because many outside explorers of the past collected word lists ...
2 hours ago · The settlement on the site of present-day Kaliningrad was founded as a military fortress in 1255 after the Prussian Crusade by the Teutonic Knights against Baltic Prussians. The new settlement was named in honor of the Bohemian (Czech) King Ottokar II. The crusade was followed by a settlement of Germans and the surrounding area became ...
- 223.03 km² (86.11 sq mi)
- 1 September 1255
- 5 m (16 ft)
- Russia
2 hours ago · The English word Germany derives from the Latin Germania, which came into use after Julius Caesar adopted it for the peoples east of the Rhine. The German term Deutschland, originally diutisciu land ('the German lands') is derived from deutsch (cf. Dutch), descended from Old High German diutisc 'of the people' (from diot or diota 'people'), originally used to distinguish the language of the ...
1 day ago · Slovakia's mostly mountainous territory spans about 49,000 square kilometres (19,000 sq mi), hosting a population exceeding 5.4 million. The capital and largest city is Bratislava, while the second largest city is Košice . The Slavs arrived in the territory of the present-day Slovakia in the 5th and 6th centuries.
1 day ago · Islam is the largest non-Christian religion in the country. There are between 3.0 and 4.7 million Muslims, around 3.6% of the population. [5] [94] The majority of Muslims in Germany are of Turkish origin, followed by those from Pakistan, countries of the former Yugoslavia, Arab countries, Iran, and Afghanistan.
