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21 hours ago · Aalborg or Ålborg ( / ˈɑːlbɔːrɡ / AHL-borg, US also / ˈɔːl -/ AWL-, [9] [10] Danish: [ˈʌlˌpɒˀ] ⓘ) is Denmark 's fourth largest urban settlement (behind Copenhagen, Aarhus, and Odense) with a population of 119,862 (1 July 2022) [11] in the town proper and an urban population of 143,598 (1 July 2022). [11] As of 1 July 2022, the ...
21 hours ago · May 31, 2024 With a sunny morning, although still only about 17 degrees, we set off to walk a combination of local trails from the caravan park along the river (The Mokare Trail) past the town (Community Park Trail) and back via the bush along the Karri Trail. Anti-clockwise on the map. Along the way …
21 hours ago · Detailed map of Gotland Topographic map of Gotland The marine areas around Gotland, which lies between the numerals 7 and 8, which, along with No. 9, form the Gotland Basin. Gotland is Sweden's largest island, and it is the largest island fully encompassed by the Baltic Sea (with Denmark's Zealand at the Baltic's edge).
21 hours ago · Cnut ( / kəˈnjuːt /; [3] Old Norse: Knútr Old Norse pronunciation: [ˈknuːtr]; [a] c. 990 – 12 November 1035), also known as Canute and with the epithet the Great, [4] [5] [6] was King of England from 1016, King of Denmark from 1018, and King of Norway from 1028 until his death in 1035. [1] The three kingdoms united under Cnut's rule are ...
21 hours ago · Viking expansion was the historical movement which led Norse explorers, traders and warriors, the latter known in modern scholarship as Vikings, to sail most of the North Atlantic, reaching south as far as North Africa and east as far as Russia, and through the Mediterranean as far as Constantinople and the Middle East, acting as looters, traders, colonists and mercenaries.
21 hours ago · Slovenia is the third most-forested country in Europe, [121] with 58.3% of the territory covered by forests. [122] The forests are an important natural resource, and logging is kept to a minimum. [123] In the interior of the country are typical Central European forests, predominantly oak and beech.
21 hours ago · The Thirty Years' War [j] was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history, lasting from 1618 to 1648. Fought primarily in Central Europe, an estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldiers and civilians died as a result of battle, famine, or disease, while parts of present-day Germany reported population declines of over 50%. [19]
