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Most Danes today trace their heritage to a Germanic people who have inhabited Denmark since prehistoric times. However, with immigration in recent history into the country from various parts of the world, the Danish population has become increasingly heterogeneous. Danish is the principal language of Denmark.
During the Völkerwanderung migrations (times of Huns and later Slavs and Avars onslaughts into Magna Germania), Danes came onto the peninsula of Jutland. They were repelled by native Juetlanders, Friesians and other native Germanic tribes. Danish attackers left many ships, on which they came, stuck in the moors, which can still be found today. In time the Frankish/German emperors married off the Jutland chief's daughters to Danes, thus making them part of the empire as kings. The German term Völkerwanderung (the migration of peoples), is used in historiography as an alternate label for the Migration Period, of Germanic, Slavic and other tribes on the European continent during the period AD 300–900. ...
The Huns were a confederation of Eurasian tribes of diverse origin who appeared in Europe in the 4th century. ...
The Slavic peoples are the most numerous ethnic and linguistic body of peoples in Europe. ...
Map showing the location of Avar Khaganate, c. ...
Map of the Roman Empire and Germania Magna in the early 2nd century. ...
Jutland Peninsula Jutland (Danish: Jylland; German: Jütland; Frisian Jutlân; Low German Jötlann) is a peninsula in northern Europe that forms the only non-insular part of Denmark and also the northernmost part of Germany, dividing the North Sea from the Baltic Sea. ...
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A small German-speaking minority lives in southern part of Denmark on Jutland, more exactly in northern Sleswig. Schleswig and Holstein dukes were for a long time under the Holy Roman Empire also the kings of Denmark. The dukes of Schleswig/Holstein were to also be kings of Denmark, but it was to always remain separate. Despite this the northern part of Schleswig near Tondern was cut off and "given" to Denmark after World War I at Versailles. Today most people in border regions of Europe speak both languages. Schleswig-Holstein is the northernmost of the 16 Bundesländer in Germany. ...
, Versailles (pronounced , roughly vair-sye’, in French), formerly the de facto capital of the kingdom of France, is now a wealthy suburb of Paris and is still an important administrative and judicial center. ...
A mostly Inuit population inhabits Greenland; and the Faroe Islands have a Nordic population with its own language. Education is compulsory from ages seven to 18 and is free through the university level. Inuit (Inuktitut syllabics: áƒá“„áƒá‘¦, singular Inuk / áƒá“„á’ƒ) is a general term for a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic coasts of Siberia, Alaska, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec, Labrador and Greenland (see Eskimo). ...
The Evangelical Lutheran Church (Den danske folkekirke) is state-supported and, according to statistics from January 2002, accounts for about 84.3% of Denmark's religious affiliation. Denmark has religious freedom, however, and other religions exist, both Protestant denominations and other. The office of the Minister of Religion (Kirkeministeren) recognizes 12 different religions for tax and legal purposes; in addition it acknowledges a number of other religious groups for the purpose of conducting wedding ceremonies.
Ansgar was in 835 designated archbishop over the North and East. His bishopric Hamburg-Bremen remained so until Lund was designed to take on their own archbishopric in 1103. Ansgar, etching by Hugo Hamilton (1830) Ansgar, Anskar or Oscar, (September 8?, 801–February 3, 865) was an Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen. ...
Events Ragnar Lodbrok rises to power (approximate date) The celebration of All Saints is made an obligation throughout the Frankish Empire and fixed on November 1. ...
The Archbishopric of Bremen was an ecclesiastical state in the Holy Roman Empire. ...
Events April 27 - Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, goes into exile after falling out with Henry I of England Amadeus III becomes Count of Savoy Bohemund I of Antioch is released from imprisonment among the Turks The Scandinavian city of Lund becomes a see within the Roman Catholic Church Births February...
Demographic data
Population Denmarks population from 1769 to 2006. Image File history File links Population_of_Denmark_1769-2006. ...
| Year | Population
January 1st | Year | Population
January 1st | | 1769 | 797,584 | 1976 | 5,065,313 | | 1787 | 841,806 | 1977 | 5,079,879 | | 1801 | 929,001 | 1978 | 5,096,959 | | 1834 | 1,230,964 | 1979 | 5,111,537 | | 1840 | 1,289,075 | 1980 | 5,122,065 | | 1845 | 1,356,877 | 1981 | 5,123,989 | | 1850 | 1,414,648 | 1982 | 5,119,155 | | 1855 | 1,507,222 | 1983 | 5,116,464 | | 1860 | 1,608,362 | 1984 | 5,112,130 | | 1870 | 1,784,741 | 1985 | 5,111,108 | | 1880 | 1,969,039 | 1986 | 5,116,273 | | 1890 | 2,172,380 | 1987 | 5,124,794 | | 1901 | 2,449,540 | 1988 | 5,129,254 | | 1906 | 2,588,919 | 1989 | 5,129,778 | | 1911 | 2,757,076 | 1990 | 5,135,409 | | 1916 | 2,921,362 | 1991 | 5,146,469 | | 1921 | 3,267,831 | 1992 | 5,162,126 | | 1925 | 3,434,555 | 1993 | 5,180,614 | | 1930 | 3,550,656 | 1994 | 5,196,642 | | 1935 | 3,706,349 | 1995 | 5,215,718 | | 1940 | 3,844,312 | 1996 | 5,251,027 | | 1945 | 4,045,232 | 1997 | 5,275,121 | | 1950 | 4,281,275 | 1998 | 5,294,860 | | 1955 | 4,448,401 | 1999 | 5,313,577 | | 1960 | 4,585,256 | 2000 | 5,330,020 | | 1965 | 4,767,597 | 2001 | 5,349,212 | | 1970 | 4,937,579 | 2002 | 5,368,354 | | 1971 | 4,950,598 | 2003 | 5,383,507 | | 1972 | 4,975,653 | 2004 | 5,397,640 | | 1973 | 5,007,538 | 2005 | 5,411,405 | | 1974 | 5,036,184 | 2006 | 5,427,459 | | 1975 | 5,054,410 | 2007 | ? | Statistics Denmark (Danish: Danmarks Statistik) is a Danish governmental organization under the Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs. ...
Age structure - 0-14 years: 18.7% (male 523,257; female 496,697)
- 15-64 years: 66.1% (male 1,815,240; female 1,787,406)
- 65 years and over: 15.2% (male 355,656; female 472,405) (2006 est.)
Median age - total: 39.8 years
- male: 38.9 years
- female: 40.7 years (2006 est.)
Population growth rate - 0.33% (2006 est.)
Birth rate - 11.13 births/1,000 population (2006 est.)
Death rate - 10.36 deaths/1,000 population (2006 est.)
Net migration rate - 2.52 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2006 est.)
Sex ratio - at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female
- under 15 years: 1.05 male(s)/female
- 15-64 years: 1.02 male(s)/female
- 65 years and over: 0.75 male(s)/female
- total population: 0.98 male(s)/female (2006 est.)
Infant mortality rate - total: 4.51 deaths/1,000 live births
- male: 4.54 deaths/1,000 live births
- female: 4.47 deaths/1,000 live births (2006 est.)
Life expectancy - total population: 77.79 years
- male: 75.49 years
- female: 80.22 years (2006 est.)
Total fertility rate - 1.80 children born/woman (2006 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.2% (2003 est.)
- people living with HIV/AIDS: 5,000 (2003 est.)
- deaths: less than 100 (2003 est.)
Nationality - noun: Dane(s)
- adjective: Danish
Ethnic groups - Scandinavian, Inuit, Faroese, German, Turkish, Iranian, Somali
Religion - Evangelical Lutheran 95%, other Protestant and Roman Catholic 3%, Muslim 2%
Language - Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (an Inuit dialect), German (small minority)
- note: English is the predominant second language
Literacy - definition: age 15 and over can read and write
- total population: 99%
- male: 99%
- female: 99% (2003 est.)
References This article contains material from the CIA World Factbook (2006 edition) which, as a US government publication, is in the public domain. World Factbook 2004 cover The World Factbook is an annual publication by the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States with basic almanac-style information about the various countries of the world. ...
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