Thy (IPA: [tʰy:ʔ], locally [tʰyʲkʲʰ]) is a traditional district in northwestern Jutland, Denmark. It is situated north of the Limfjord, facing the North Sea and Kattegat, and has a population of around 50,000. The main towns of Thy are Thisted, Hanstholm and Hurup. Articles with similar titles include the NATO phonetic alphabet, which has also informally been called the “International Phonetic Alphabet”. For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words, see IPA chart for English. ... Jutland Peninsula Jutland (Danish: Jylland; German: Jütland; Frisian Jutlân; Low German Jötlann) is the western, continental part of Denmark as well as one of the three historical Lands of Denmark, dividing the North Sea from Kattegat and the Baltic Sea. ... a bridge over Limfjord (Aalborg/Nørresundby) The Limfjord is a shallow sound in Denmark that separates the island of Vendsyssel-Thy from the rest of Jutland Peninsula. ... The North Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, located between the coasts of Norway and Denmark in the east, the coast of the British Isles in the west, and the German, Dutch, Belgian and French coasts in the south. ... The Baltic Sea The Kattegat (Danish), or Kattegatt (Swedish), is a bay of the North Sea and a continuation of the Skagerrak, bounded by Denmark and Sweden. ... Thisted, a town in Thisted municipality of Viborg County, in Denmark. ... Hanstholm is the name used for a small elevated area in Hanstholm municipality of Viborg County, located in the northern part of Denmark. ...

Since the Danish municipal reform of 1 January 2007, Thy is roughly identical with Thisted municipality which belongs to the Region of North Jutland. The southernmost part of Thy, the peninsula Thyholm, belongs to Struer municipality in the Region of Central Jutland. Before the merger, Thy consisted of four municipalities: Hanstholm, Thisted, Sydthy and Thyholm. is the 1st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is now the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... Map of the future municipality View of beach with small trawlers berthing in Vorupør,Denmark. ... Struer is a municipality in west Denmark, in the county of Ringkøbing on the peninsula of Jutland. ... Hanstholm municipality is a very big word. ... Sydthy municipality Sydthy municipality is a Danish municipality (Danish, kommune) in Viborg County on the west coast of Vendsyssel-Thy, a part of the Jutland peninsula in west Denmark. ...

Thy forms the western part of the North Jutlandic Island and borders Hanherred to the northeast with Vendsyssel even further northeast. South of the Limfjord is the island of Mors, considered a twin district of Thy, and Hardsyssel in western mainland Jutland. Thy is traditionally regarded part of northern and western Jutland alike. The dialect belongs to the West Jutlandic group. Vendsyssel-Thy or Nørrejyske Ø (Danish for North Jutlandic Island) is the northernmost part of Denmark. ... Vendsyssel-Thy or Nørrejyske Ø (Danish for North Jutland Island) is the northmost part of the Jutland Peninsula (Denmark) and the second largest island of Denmark. ... Mors is a 367,7 square kilometer large island in a shallow sound called Limfjorden in Denmark. ...

Nature

Thy has a very varied landscape. In the north it is marked by coastal plains which were covered by sea in neolithic times. These are interrupted with slopes that formed the coast. In these, high-lying limestone is often visible - hence the name of the Limfjord. The eastern stretch, facing the Limfjord, is slightly hilly and dotted with small villages and farms. The landscape is marked by predominantly western winds, most trees bending eastwards. In geography, a coastal plain is an area of flat, low-lying land adjacent to a seacoast and separated from the interior by other features. ... -1...

The west coast has wide beaches and high dunes with Leymus grass and sea-buckthorn. Behind the dunes, there is heath with stretches of Calluna heather, Iceland moss, Cladonia, crowberry, bilberry, blueberry, cranberry and orchids including the unique Dactylorhiza majalis subsp. calcifugiens. This is the result of huge sand drift in the 15th to 19th centuries which covered much formerly fertile land. The sand drift affected the whole west coast of Jutland, and some other parts of Denmark as well, but in Thy it went the furthest inland, until 18 km (11 miles). Parts of the sandy stretches have been turned into conifer woods. A line of lakes, believed to have been caused by the sand drift blocking the outflow to the sea, mark the border between the western, sandy area and the eastern farmland. A diagram showing the formation of a dune with a slipface. ... species Leymus arenarius - sand ryegrass Leymus aristiglumus Leymus cinereus Leymus condensatus - giant wild rye Leymus divaricatus Leymus flexus Leymus mollis mollis - American dune grass Leymus obvipodus Leymus pendulus Leymus triticoides - creeping wild rye Leymus is a genus of the true grass family (Poaceae). ... Species Hippophae rhamnoides Hippophae salicifolia Hippophae tibetana The Sea-buckthorns, also known as Seaberry or Sea Berry, are deciduous shrubs in the genus Hippophae, family Elaeagnaceae. ... Heath comes from Old English hæð tract of wasteland, from Proto-Germanic *khaiþijo (cognate with Old Irish ciad; see also heather, heathen) refers to a wild meadow or open, unploughed country, see Heath (habitat). ... Binomial name (L.) Hull “Heather” redirects here. ... Binomial name Cetraria islandica Iceland moss (Cetraria islandica) is a lichen whose erect or ascending foliaceous habit gives it something of the appearance of a moss, whence probably the name. ... Cladonia (cup lichen) is a genus of moss-like lichens in the family Cladoniaceae. ... Species Empetrum nigrum Empetrum eamesii The crowberries (Empetrum L.) are a small genus of dwarf evergreen shrubs that bear edible fruits. ... Binomial name Vaccinium uliginosum L. Vaccinium uliginosum (Bog Bilberry or Northern Bilberry) is a flowering plant in the genus Vaccinium. ... Species See text. ... Species Vaccinium erythrocarpum Vaccinium macrocarpon Vaccinium microcarpum Vaccinium oxycoccus Approximate ranges of the cranberries in sect. ... Orchid re-directs here; for alternate uses see Orchid (disambiguation) Genera Over 800 See List of Orchidaceae genera. ... Orders & Families Cordaitales † Pinales   Pinaceae - Pine family   Araucariaceae - Araucaria family   Podocarpaceae - Yellow-wood family   Sciadopityaceae - Umbrella-pine family   Cupressaceae - Cypress family   Cephalotaxaceae - Plum-yew family   Taxaceae - Yew family Vojnovskyales † Voltziales † The conifers, division Pinophyta, are one of 13 or 14 division level taxa within the Kingdom Plantae. ...

The wetlands Vejlerne in the northeast are the largest bird sanctuary in Northern Europe.^[1] Nearby is the bird cliff Bulbjerg. ...

National park

On 29 June 2007, the dune and heath landscape of Thy was officially selected to be the first national park in Denmark proper (national parks already exist in Greenland). Two other areas in Jutland, the Wadden Sea and the hills of Mols, will follow suit in the next couple of years. In total, seven outstanding areas candidated for the status.^[2] The governmental Forest and Nature Agency states: Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales, UK A national park is a reserve of land, usually declared and owned by a national government, protected from most human development and pollution. ... Satellite image of the southwestern part of the Wadden Sea. ... Mols is an area in the southern part of Djursland on Jutlands east coast. ...

Thy has a very great national and international significance. Not least so because of the many large dune and dune heath landscapes — from the lighthouse of Hanstholm to the isthmus of Agger — which are unique in a European context.^[3]

On 10 July 2007, a police officer from Hanstholm found a hermit in the state forest of Hjardemål Klit, one of the more deserted areas in the north of Thy. For three years, the middle-aged man from Zealand had been living in the primitive forest shelters of the district and made a living from collecting empty bottles. For the same period he had been missed by his parents, who thought he were dead, but he was now re-united with them on the initiative of the police officer. Forest workers told they were aware of the man's existence, particularly that he had left behind many eggshells at the shelters and seemingly nourished on eggs, but since he didn't do any harm they had left him alone. ^[4] Hanstholm is the name used for a small elevated area in Hanstholm municipality of Viborg County, located in the northern part of Denmark. ... Hanstholm is the name used for a small elevated area in Hanstholm municipality of Viborg County, located in the northern part of Denmark. ... Onuphrius lived as a hermit in the desert of Upper Egypt in the late 4th century A hermit (from the Greek erÄ“mos, signifying desert, uninhabited, hence desert-dweller) is a person who lives to some greater or lesser degree in seclusion and/or isolation from society. ... Map showing location of Zealand within Denmark. ... A typical jungle hut in Brazilian Amazonia, made of straw and supported by stilts. ... Deposit notice on a bottle sold in contiguous U.S. Container deposit legislation are laws passed by city, state, provincial, or national governments that require that a deposit on carbonated, water or alcoholic beverage containers be collected when the beverage is sold. ...

History

In the stone age, probably before it got its later name, Thy exported fine flint present in the limestone. A flint mine has been restored at Hov east of Thisted. Thy was densely populated in the bronze age and has a great number of burial mounds. Stone Age fishing hook. ... A flint nodule from the Onondaga limestone layer, Buffalo, New York. ... The Bronze Age is a period in a civilizations development when the most advanced metalworking has developed the techniques of smelting copper from natural outcroppings and alloys it to cast bronze. ... A tumulus (plural tumuli, from the Latin word for mound or small hill, from the root to bulge, swell also found in ) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. ...

Thy is originally the same word as Old Norse Þjóð ("thioth"), meaning people. Thy is by some scholars thought to be the origin of the Teutons^[5], and Ptolomy placed the Teutons and the Cimbri at the northern end of Jutland on his ancient map. In the viking age the area had vital trade links across the North Sea, being christened from England by the Saint Theodgarus, unlike other parts of Denmark that were christened from the south. The former cathedral and monastery of Theodgarus in Vestervig is today the largest village church of Scandinavia. In 1085 Thy was the gatehead for King Canute the Holy's plans to retake England from William the Conqueror, with 1,000 ships gathered in the Limfjord until the expedition was cancelled and a peasant uprising broke out. Old Norse or Danish tongue is the Germanic language once spoken by the inhabitants of the Nordic countries (for instance during the Viking Age). ... This entry is about the tribe of the Teutons. ... There have been several people named Ptolemy: Claudius Ptolemaeus, called Ptolemy, was an ancient Greek geographer and astronomer; The Ptolemaic dynasty of ancient Egypt included several kings by that name (for a full list, see that article); Ptolemy, a disciple of the Gnostic Valentinius is known only for writing a... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Cimbrian War. ... The Viking Age is the name of the age in Northern Europe, following the Germanic Iron Age. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Monastery of St. ... April 2 - Emperor Zhezong became emperor of Song Dynasty. ... the death of Canute the Holy, by Christian Albrecht von Benzon Canute IV, (approximately 1043 — 1086), also known as Canute the Saint and Canute the Holy, was King of Denmark from 1080 until 1086. ... William I ( 1027 – September 9, 1087), was King of England from 1066 to 1087. ...

In the Second World War, when Denmark was occupied by Nazi Germany, huge fortifications were built along the west coast of Jutland for fear that the allied invasion should take place here. Parts of the bunker complexes in Hanstholm have been restored and are open to the public. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... Land on Normandy In military parlance, D-Day is a term often used to denote the day on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated. ... Bunkers in Albania A bunker is a defensive military fortification. ...

Economy

Thy is still a mainly rural area, the traditional businesses of agriculture and fishery being more prevalent than in many other areas of Denmark. A lobster boat unloading its catch in Ilfracombe harbour, North Devon, England. ...

Tourism

Tourism is a major business in summer, the coastal villages receiving many German tourists and smaller numbers of Norwegians, Swedes, Dutch and others. Although the coastal resorts have areas with individual holiday houses, they maintain a native population as well. The only major hotel-like holiday complex is at Vigsø Bugt east of Hanstholm. Thy has become a major destination for windsurfing. Tourists on Oahu, Hawaii Tourism is travel for predominantly recreational or leisure purposes or the provision of services to support this leisure travel. ... A windsurfer with modern gear tilts the rig and carves the board to perform a planing gybe (downwind turn) close to shore in Maui, Hawaii, one of the popular destinations for windsurfing. ...

Industry

There is some small and medium scale industry, with no single company exceeding 1,000 employees. These include wooden furniture (Licentia and NJA in Nors), prefab windows (Ideal Combi in Hurup) and Sjørring Maskinfabrik in Sjørring (subsupplier to Volvo and Scania). The harbour of Hanstholm with related ferries and fish processing industries employ about 2-3000 people. Most major employers are based in Thisted: Cimbria (combine harvesters and grain dryers), Coloplast (medical plastic products), Oticon (hearing aids), Alkaline Batteries (formerly Hellesens), American Tool Companies/Joran (drills) and HM Automatic/Thy El-Teknik (industrial electrical systems). Food industry includes Tican (slaughtery), Dragsbæk Maltfabrik (malt), Dragsbæk Margarinefabrik (margarine), and Mejerigaarden/Polar Is (one of Denmark's largest ice cream manufacturers), all in Thisted. Thisted Bryghus was the first Danish brewery to introduce ecological beer and has a growing sale of its many speciality beer types.^[6] Volvo Cars is the car maker using the Volvo Trademark. ... Scania (SkÃ¥ne in Swedish  ) is a geographical region of Sweden on the southernmost tip of the Scandinavian peninsula, a historical province (landskap)[1] of the Kingdom of Sweden, since 1997 a county (Län) of Sweden, before 1658 part of the Kingdom of Denmark. ... The combine harvester, or simply combine, is a machine that harvests, threshes, and cleans grain plants. ... Technically, drying is a mass transfer process resulting in the removal of water moisture or moisture from another solvent, by evaporation from a solid, semi-solid or liquid (hereafter product) to end in a solid state. ... Behind the ear aid For the song, see Flood (album). ... A child using an electric drill with a screwdriver bit mounted in the chuck. ... Malted barley Malting is a process applied to cereal grains, in which the grains are made to germinate and then are quickly dried before the plant develops. ... Margarine in a tub Margarine (pronunciation: ), as a generic term, can indicate any of a wide range of butter-substitutes. ... Missing image Ice cream is often served on a stick Boxes of ice cream are often found in stores in a display freezer. ... Thisted Bryghus is a small Danish brewery located in the town of Thisted in northwestern Jutland, Denmark. ... The entrance of a brewery. ...

Education

Secondary education includes the gymnasium and EUC Nordvest of Thisted. The latter offers technical and mercantile secondary education as well as a Market Economist programme. The Scool of Nursing in Thisted is the only other higher educational institution in the area. Many youths leave the area for major centres of higher education such as Ålborg and Århus, but some return to Thy a later time. A gymnasium (pronounced with or, in Swedish, as opposed to ) is a type of school providing secondary education in some parts of Europe, comparable to English Grammar Schools and U.S. High Schools. ... Aalborg (Danish: Aalborg or Ã…lborg) is a city and seaport in Denmark. ... The cityhall of Ã…rhus. ...

The Nordic Folk Centre for Renewable Energy at Hurup is internationally known for its research in wave energy and small-scale windmills for developing countries. When an object bobs up and down on a ripple in a pond, it experiences an elliptical trajectory. ... A Dutch tower windmill, sporting sails, surrounded by tulips A windmill is an engine powered by the wind to produce energy, often contained in a large building as in traditional post mills, smock mills and tower mills. ...

Infrastructure

With its position in the northwestern corner of Jutland, Thy is far from the greater traffic corridors, although there is some transit from the European continent to Western Norway and the North Atlantic. Vestlandet is the region along the Atlantic coast of southern Norway. ... For other uses, see Atlantic (disambiguation) The Atlantic Ocean is Earths second-largest ocean, covering approximately one-fifth of its surface. ...

Roads

National route 26, in part a 2+1 road, goes from the harbour of Hanstholm diagonally across Jutland to Viborg (route 13) and Århus (motorway and European route E45). National route 11 passes through Thy from north to south on its way from Aalborg down to the German border at Tønder. National route 29 goes from Hanstholm eastwards to the E45 motorway at Hobro. The secondary national route 181 is part of the Green Coastal Road, a scenic route along the North Sea from Norway to Belgium. In Thy it offers some of the straightest road in Denmark, set in a dune and heath landscape along the coast. 2+1 road with cable barrier near Linköping, Sweden. ... Viborg refers to: Viborg - a city in Denmark Viborg - a city in Karelia (also known as Vyborg) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The cityhall of Ã…rhus. ... Motorway symbol in UK, France and Ireland. ... The European route E45 goes between Finland and Italy, through Sweden, Denmark, Germany and Austria. ... View of Aalborg railroad station from J.F. Kennedys Square, 2004 Aalborg (help· info) is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in North Jutland County on the Jutland peninsula in northern Denmark. ... Tønder (German Tondern) is a municipality in south Denmark, in the county of South Jutland on the peninsula of Jutland. ... The European route E45 goes between Finland and Italy, through Sweden, Denmark, Germany and Austria. ... The North Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, located between the coasts of Norway and Denmark in the east, the coast of the British Isles in the west, and the German, Dutch, Belgian and French coasts in the south. ... A diagram showing the formation of a dune with a slipface. ... Heath comes from Old English hæð tract of wasteland, from Proto-Germanic *khaiþijo (cognate with Old Irish ciad; see also heather, heathen) refers to a wild meadow or open, unploughed country, see Heath (habitat). ...

Bridges

• Oddesund (to western Jutland, national route 11 and railway)
• Vilsund (to the island of Mors and onwards to central Jutland, national route 26)

Oddesund is a strait in the Danish Limfjorden. ... Mors is a 367,7 square kilometer large island in a shallow sound called Limfjorden in Denmark. ...

Railways

• Thisted-Struer, operated by Arriva

A railway from Thisted to Aalborg via Fjerritslev existed from 1904 to 1969. An Arriva train in Denmark Arriva plc is a UK-based international public transport operator and vehicle rental company, headquartered in Sunderland. ... Fjerritslev is a municipality in northern Denmark, in the county of North Jutland on the peninsula of Jutland. ... 1904 (MCMIV) was a leap year starting on a Friday (see link for calendar). ... For the Stargate SG-1 episode, see 1969 (Stargate SG-1). ...

Ferries

To Norway:

• Hanstholm-Egersund/Haugesund/Bergen (Fjord Line)
• Hanstholm-Kristiansand (Master Ferries)

To the Shetland Islands, Faroe Islands and Iceland: Egersund is a coastal town in the municipality of Eigersund in the county of Rogaland, Norway. ... County Rogaland District Haugaland Municipality NO-1106 Administrative centre Haugesund Mayor (2006) Petter Steen Jr (H) Official language form BokmÃ¥l Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 403 73 km² 68 km² 0. ... County Hordaland District Midhordland Municipality NO-1201 Administrative centre Bergen Mayor (2006) Herman Friele (H) Official language form Neutral Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 215 465 km² 445 km² 0. ... County District Sørlandet Municipality NO-1001 Administrative centre Kristiansand Mayor (2004) Jan Oddvar Skisland (KrF) Official language form BokmÃ¥l Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 287 277 km² 259 km² 0. ... The Shetland Islands, also called Shetland (archaically spelled Zetland) formerly called Hjaltland, comprise one of 32 council areas of Scotland. ...

• Hanstholm-Lerwick-Tórshavn-Seyðisfjörður (also calling at Bergen, Norway)

''To mainland Jutland: Lerwick Lerwick is the only burgh and main port of the Shetland Islands in Scotland, found more than 100 miles (160 km) off the north coast of mainland Great Britain. ... The peninsula Tinganes is seat of the Faroese Government in Tórshavn. ... Image:Seyðisfjörður pos. ... County Hordaland District Midhordland Municipality NO-1201 Administrative centre Bergen Mayor (2006) Herman Friele (H) Official language form Neutral Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 215 465 km² 445 km² 0. ... Jutland Peninsula Jutland (Danish: Jylland; German: Jütland; Frisian Jutlân; Low German Jötlann) is the western, continental part of Denmark as well as one of the three historical Lands of Denmark, dividing the North Sea from Kattegat and the Baltic Sea. ...

• Agger-Thyborøn (crossing the western mouth of the Limfjord)

To the island of Mors: Agger is the Roman word for an embankment or rampart, from the Latin aggero meaning to heap up, make a mound. ... Thyborøn is a fishing village in Jutland, Denmark, primarily famous for being the site of numerous shipwrecks, such as that of the Imperial Russian naval vessel Alexander Neuski. ... a bridge over Limfjord (Aalborg/Nørresundby) The Limfjord is a shallow sound in Denmark that separates the island of Vendsyssel-Thy from the rest of Jutland Peninsula. ...

• Neessund
• Feggesund (strictly speaking from Hanherred to Mors)

Airports

• Thisted Airport, currently no scheduled traffic

Aalborg Airport is the closest international airport. Thisted Airport (Danish: Thisted Lufthavn) (IATA: TED, ICAO: EKTS) is a small airport servicing the Danish town of Thisted. ... Aalborg Airport (IATA: AAL, ICAO: EKYT) is a civilian airport located in Lindholm, Denmark witch is 6,5 km north west of Aalborg. ...

See also

• Traditional districts of Denmark

References

Weblinks

• Official tourist information
• Thyweb, local events, news and information (Danish and German)

Coordinates: 56°53′00″N, 8°28′00″E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...