Denmark was easily beaten by Prussia and Austria, and obliged to relinquish both Schleswig and Holstein. |
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The latter was a fief subordinate to the Holy Roman Empire, while Schleswig remained a Danish fief. |
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A second possible solution is that these Angles of Ptolemy are not those of Schleswig at all. |
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The province of Schleswig has proved rich in prehistoric antiquities that date apparently from the 4th and 5th centuries. |
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Denmark lost Schleswig to Austria and Prussia in 1864 as a result of the Second Schleswig War. |
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As a result of the plebiscite, much of Schleswig returned to Denmark, but Angeln remained in Germany. |
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From the latter drains the Schlei inlet, actually a brackish estuary, at the head of which is the city named after it, Schleswig. |
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In present times, the Jutlandic Peninsula consists of the mainland of Denmark and Southern Schleswig in Germany. |
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In Schleswig, they initiated the large fortification of Danevirke to mark the southern border of their realm. |
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In the 19th century there was a surge of nationalist movements, which were defeated in the 1864 Second Schleswig War. |
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The medieval Code of Jutland applied for Schleswig until 1900 when it was replaced by the Prussian Civil Code. |
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Rungholt was a settlement in Nordfriesland, in what was then the Danish Duchy of Schleswig. |
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Until the 16th century, Danish was a continuum of dialects spoken from Schleswig to Scania with no standard variety or spelling conventions. |
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Former were occupied by the count of Holland in 1289, the latter were governed by the Duke of Schleswig and the king of Denmark. |
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Some of the discoveries from the bog were lost during the Second Schleswig War. |
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Following the loss of Schleswig to Germany, a sharp influx of German speakers moved into the area, eventually outnumbering the Danish speakers. |
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After the Schleswig referendum in 1920 a number of Danes remained as a minority within German territories. |
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In 1284, its town rights were confirmed and the town quickly rose to become one of the most important in the Duchy of Schleswig. |
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Unlike Holstein, however, Schleswig did not belong to the German Holy Roman Empire. |
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The lions symbolize Schleswig, and the nettle leaf Holstein, thus expressing the town's unity with these two historic lands. |
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In 1050, following several destructions, the population was moved to the opposite shore of the Schlei, becoming the city of Schleswig. |
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In 1066 Hedeby was finally destroyed, and Schleswig remained as a part of the Danish kingdom. |
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There are also many bog bodies from this time in Denmark, Schleswig and southern Sweden. |
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In 1864, Austria and Prussia fought together against Denmark and secured the independence from Denmark of the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. |
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German was the administrative language of Holstein and the Duchy of Schleswig. |
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In 808, the king of the Danes, Godfred, built the vast Danevirke across the isthmus of Schleswig. |
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Most importantly, ethnic Danes in both Denmark proper and the former Danish Duchy of Schleswig. |
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On 18 November 1863, he signed the Danish November Constitution and declared the Duchy of Schleswig a part of Denmark. |
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The populations of Schleswig and Holstein, furthermore, greatly valued this separate status. |
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The duchy of Schleswig constituted a Danish fief, while the Duchy of Holstein remained a part of the German Confederation. |
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Denmark was defeated and obliged to cede Schleswig and Holstein to Prussia. |
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For many centuries, the King of Denmark was both a Danish Duke of Schleswig and a German Duke of Holstein. |
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In the church, following the reformation, German was used in the southern part of Schleswig and Danish in the northern part. |
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This development was paralleled by an equally strong Danish national awakening in Denmark and Northern Schleswig. |
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These demands were rejected by the Danish government in 1848, and the Germans of Holstein and southern Schleswig rebelled. |
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Following the defeat of Germany in World War I, the Allied powers arranged a plebiscite in northern and central Schleswig. |
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The state's most important museum of cultural history is in Gottorf Castle in Schleswig. |
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During the language change in the 19th century some Danish and North Frisian dialects in Southern Schleswig were replaced by German. |
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The governing parties consisting of the Social Democrats, the Green Party, and the South Schleswig Voters' Association lost their majority. |
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It stretches for approximately 20 miles from the Baltic near Kappeln and Arnis to the city of Schleswig. |
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Provision for the cession of northern Schleswig to Denmark was made pending a popular vote in favour of this. |
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In Southern Schleswig, no referendum was held, as the likely outcome was apparent. |
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A central element of the German nationalistic claim was the insistence on Schleswig and Holstein being a single, indivisible entity. |
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Ket and Wig appear in the Gesta Danorum as the sons of Frowin, the governor of Schleswig. |
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The Nydam Boat is the largest and best preserved of the boats found in Nydam Bog and is now displayed at Gottorf Castle in Schleswig, Germany. |
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Otto's army met the armies of King Harald Bluetooth and Haakon Jarl the ruler of Norway under the Danish king, at Danevirke, a great wall near Schleswig. |
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Schleswig and Holstein have at different times belonged in part or completely to either Denmark or Germany, or have been virtually independent of both nations. |
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German is the primary language among the Danish minority of Southern Schleswig, and likewise, Danish is the primary language of the North Schleswig Germans. |
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Essentially, Schleswig was either integrated into Denmark or was a Danish fief, and Holstein was a German fief and once a sovereign state long ago. |
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The name Southern Schleswig is now used for all of German Schleswig. |
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Following the Second World War, a substantial part of the German population in Southern Schleswig changed their nationality and declared themselves as Danish. |
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This movement called for the complete reintegration of Schleswig into the Kingdom of Denmark and demanded an end to discrimination against Danes in Schleswig. |
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The Danish king's realm still consisted of the islands, the northern half of the Jutland peninsula, and the Duchy of Schleswig in real union with the Duchy of Holstein. |
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The separation of the two duchies was challenged by the Augustenborg heir, who claimed, as in 1848, to be rightful heir of both Schleswig and Holstein. |
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The promulgation of a common constitution for Denmark and Schleswig in November 1863 prompted Otto von Bismarck to intervene and Prussia and Austria declared war on Denmark. |
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This was the Second War of Schleswig, which ended in Danish defeat. |
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The northernmost part and west coast of the province saw a wave of emigration to America, while some Danes of North Schleswig emigrated to Denmark. |
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In Southern Jutland in southwestern Denmark, German is also spoken by the North Schleswig Germans, and German is a recognized minority language in this region. |
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On 15 June 1920, Northern Schleswig officially returned to Danish rule. |
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