Danes
(Danskere) | | Total population | | 7 million (lower boundary) | | Regions with significant populations |
 Denmark | 5,321,000 | [1] |
 United States | 1,430,897 | [2] |
 Canada | 170,780 | [3] |
 Brazil | 140,000 | |
 Australia | 100,000 | [4] |
 Germany | 50,000 | [5] |
 Sweden | 42,602 | [6] |
 Spain | 8,944 | [7] |
 Greenland | 6,500 | [8] |
 New Zealand | 3,507 | [9] |
 Iceland | 2,802 | [10] |
 Faroe Islands | 2,800 | | | | Languages | | Danish | | Religions | | Predominantly Lutheran; small minorities of other faiths; secular | | Related ethnic groups | | Norwegians, Swedes, Icelanders, Faroese and, to a lesser extent, English and all Germanic ethnic groups | The term Dane may refer to: Image File history File links Flag_of_Denmark. ...
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- People with a Danish ancestral or ethnic identity, whether living in Denmark, emigrants, or the descendants of emigrants.
- Members of the Danish ethnic minority in Southern Schleswig, a former Danish province.
- Anyone whose mother tongue is Danish.
- Nationals or citizens of Denmark, which also includes a German minority in South Jutland.
- In history, any speaker of Old Norse, the ancestor of Scandinavian languages; that is, any Scandinavian, whether from the territory of modern Norway, Sweden or Denmark. Over the time window from about the 8th to the 11 centuries, "Dane" was synonymous with "Northman." Subsequent historical developments gradually limited the use of the term to modern Danish and Denmark.
This article refers to the two definitions, ethnic Danes and their descendants plus the minority in Germany. Flag used by the Danish minoritys political party, SSW The Danish minority in Southern Schleswig, Germany has existed by this name since 1920, when the Schleswig Plebiscite split the German-ruled Schleswig into Northern Schleswig, with a clear Danish majority which became part of Denmark, and Southern Schleswig which...
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Sønderjyllands Amt (English: South Jutland County) is a county (Danish, amt) on the Jutland peninsula in southern Denmark. ...
Old Norse or Danish tongue is the Germanic language once spoken by the inhabitants of the Nordic countries (for instance during the Viking Age). ...
Origins
Danes/Daner were an ancient North Germanic tribe residing in modern day southern Sweden and on the Danish islands. They were not mentioned by Tacitus, whose famous work Germania mentions the Gothones (Geats and/or Goths?) and the Suiones (Swedes). They seem to be, however, mentioned by Jordanes and Procopius, as the Dani. The name Daner is the etymological root of Dane. Jordanes maintains that the Dani were of the same stock as the Suetidi (Swedes, Suithiod?) and expelled the Heruli and took their lands. If Tacitus simply did not overlook the Dani, and if Jordanes's information was correct, it is possible that they first appeared, as an off-shoot of the Swedes, sometime in the 2nd or 3rd century A.D. According to Sven Aggesen this would have been about the time that Dan the Proud gave his name to the Danes. Gaius Cornelius Tacitus Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (c. ...
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Sweden in the 12th century before the incorporation of Finland during the 13th century. ...
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Danes in Denmark - See also: History of Denmark
Almost five million ethnic Danes live in Denmark today.[1] The Danes are a Scandinavian ethnic group, and are the descendants of the Norse - better known as Vikings - along with Norwegians, Swedes, Icelanders, Faroese, and to some extent, the English, due to the settlement of many Danes, along with the Anglo-Saxons in England during the Migration period and during the Danelaw period. The average Dane enjoys a comfortable standard of living. Some Danes today also live in Leningrad, Russia. This is a history of the Kingdom of Denmark and the areas comprising modern day Denmark. ...
Scandinavia is a historical and geographical region centered on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe and includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. ...
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The term Viking commonly denotes the ship-borne warriors and traders of Norsemen (literally, men from the north) who originated in Scandinavia and raided the coasts of Britain, Ireland and mainland Europe as far east as the Volga River in Russia from the late 8th–11th century. ...
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Green: Danelaw The Danelaw (from the Old English Dena lagu, Danish: Danelagen ) is an 11th century name for an area of northern and eastern England under the administrative control of the Vikings (or Danes, or Norsemen) from the late 9th century. ...
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A minority of approx. 50,000 Danes live in Southern Schleswig in Germany, a former Danish territory, forming around 10% of the local population. In Denmark, the latter group is often referred to as De danske syd for grænsen (literally: the Danes south of the (Danish-German) border) or sydslesvigere (South Schleswigers). Southern Schleswig is a name for the geographical area covering the 30-40 most northern kilometers of Germany where Germany borders to Denmark. ...
The Danish Nation in a political context Det danske folk (The Danish people) as a concept, played an important role in 19th century ethnic nationalism and refers to self-identification rather than a legal status. Use of the term is most often restricted to a historical context; the historic German-Danish struggle regarding the status of the Duchy of Schleswig vis-à-vis a Danish nation-state. It describes people of Danish nationality, both in Denmark and elsewhere. Most importantly, ethnic Danes in both Denmark proper and the former Danish Duchy of Schleswig. Excluded from this definition are people from the formerly Norwegian Faroe Islands and Greenland as well as members of the German minority as well as members of other ethnic minorities. Some Danes now also live in St.Petersburg, Russia just like the Swedes. Ethnic nationalism is the form of nationalism in which the state derives political legitimacy from historical cultural or hereditary groupings (ethnicities); the underlying assumption is that ethnicities should be politically distinct. ...
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The region of Schleswig (former English name: Sleswick, Danish: Sønderjylland or Slesvig, Low German: Sleswig, North Frisian: Slaswik or Sleesweg) covers the area about 60 km north and 70 km south of the border between Germany and Denmark. ...
The term nation-state, while often used interchangeably with the terms unitary state and independent state, refers properly to the parallel occurence of a state and a nation. ...
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A duchy is a territory, fief, or domain ruled by a duke or duchess. ...
The region of Schleswig (former English name: Sleswick, Danish: Sønderjylland or Slesvig, Low German: Sleswig, North Frisian: Slaswik or Sleesweg) covers the area about 60 km north and 70 km south of the border between Germany and Denmark. ...
Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and...
The term should not be confused with the legal concept of nationality, danske statsborgere (Danish nationals) i.e. individuals holding Danish citizenship. In English usage, nationality is the legal relationship between a person and a country. ...
See also This is a list of well known Danes: // Main article: List of Danish actors Mads Mikkelsen. ...
Danish Americans are Americans of Danish descent. ...
References - ^ a b Danmarks Statistik (pdf, written in Danish) reports that Denmark, per October 1, 2005, has 461,614 inhabitants of foreign inheritance out of 5,425,420 total inhabitants. That amounts to an estimate of 4,963,806 ethnic Danish people on October 1, 2005.
- ^ The 2000 American census reports that the United States, in the 2000 census, has 1,430,897 inhabitants of Danish ancestry.
- ^ (List of Canadians by ethnicity, 2001 figure)
- ^ The ABS estimates in a 2003 study that there are between 50,000 and 150,000 people claiming Danish ancestry living in Australia. The middle number has been used, and no change since 03 has been assumed.
- ^ National minorities at the Federal Foreign Office of Germany
- ^ Statistics Sweden
- ^ Spanish National Statistics Institute
- ^ The CIA World Factbook reports that Greenland, in a July 2005 estimate, has 56,375 inhabitants. The share of Danes was in 2000 estimated to be just below 12%. Taking for granted that the two ethnic groups have developed equally from 2000 to 2005, this adds up to an estimate just below 6765 Danish people in July 2005.
- ^ Statistics New Zealand
- ^ Population by country of birth 1981-2006 by country and year: Denmark, 2006. Statistics Iceland (English version) (31 December 2006). Retrieved on 2007-07-21.
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