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78 relations: Amager, Amager Strandpark, Ancylus Lake, Aristocracy, Artificial island, Atlantic cod, Atlantic Ocean, Ayre (landform), Øresund Bridge, Øresund Station, Baltic Sea, Before Present, Brackish water, Calendar year, Carcinus maenas, Coast, Copenhagen, Copenhagen Metro, Council of State (Denmark), Danish language, Danish Meteorological Institute, Deep time, Denmark, Denmark–Sweden border, Dragør, Drogden, Eric of Pomerania, Falsterbo, Flakfortet, Flatfish, Fortification, Göta Canal, Gilleleje, Gothenburg, Gråen, Great Belt, Greater Copenhagen (metropolitan region), Helsingør, Helsingborg, HH Ferry route, Icelandic language, International waters, Kattegat, Kärnan, Køge Bugt, Kiel Canal, Kronborg, Kullaberg, Lion's mane jellyfish, Little Belt, ..., Malmö, Mejlbystenen, Middelgrundsfortet, Military, North Sea, Old Norse, Ordbog over det danske Sprog, Peberholm, Per mille, Rotterdam, Rundata, Saltholm, Scania, Sea level rise, Skagerrak, Skanör, Sound Dues, Spit (landform), Stevns Klint, Stevns Peninsula, Strait, Sweden, Swedish Academy, Swedish language, Treaty of Roskilde, Ven (Sweden), Viking Age, Zealand. Expand index (28 more) »
Amager
Amager (or, especially among older speakers) in the Øresund is Denmark's most densely populated island, with almost 200,000 inhabitants on the small appendix to Zealand.
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Amager Strandpark
Amager Strandpark (Amager Beach Park) is a seaside public park in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Ancylus Lake
Ancylus Lake is a name given by geologists to a large freshwater lake the existed in northern Europe approximately from 9500 to 8000 years Before Present (B.P.) being in effect one of various predecessors to the modern Baltic Sea.
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Aristocracy
Aristocracy (Greek ἀριστοκρατία aristokratía, from ἄριστος aristos "excellent", and κράτος kratos "power") is a form of government that places strength in the hands of a small, privileged ruling class.
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Artificial island
An artificial island or man-made island is an island that has been constructed by people rather than formed by natural means.
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Atlantic cod
The Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) is a benthopelagic fish of the family Gadidae, widely consumed by humans.
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Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.
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Ayre (landform)
An ayre is the name used for shingle beaches in Orkney and Shetland.
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Øresund Bridge
The Øresund or Öresund Bridge (Øresundsbroen,; Öresundsbron,; hybrid name: Øresundsbron) is a combined railway and motorway bridge across the Øresund strait between Sweden and Denmark.
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Øresund Station
Øresund Station is a station on the Copenhagen Metro located in the Sundbyøster district of Copenhagen.
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Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, enclosed by Scandinavia, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Poland, Germany and the North and Central European Plain.
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Before Present
Before Present (BP) years is a time scale used mainly in geology and other scientific disciplines to specify when events occurred in the past.
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Brackish water
Brackish water is water that has more salinity than fresh water, but not as much as seawater.
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Calendar year
Generally speaking, a calendar year begins on the New Year's Day of the given calendar system and ends on the day before the following New Year's Day, and thus consists of a whole number of days.
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Carcinus maenas
Carcinus maenas is a common littoral crab.
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Coast
A coastline or a seashore is the area where land meets the sea or ocean, or a line that forms the boundary between the land and the ocean or a lake.
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Copenhagen
Copenhagen (København; Hafnia) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark.
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Copenhagen Metro
The Copenhagen Metro (Københavns Metro) is a 24/7 rapid transit system in Copenhagen, Denmark, serving the municipalities of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, and Tårnby.
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Council of State (Denmark)
The Council of State is the privy council of Denmark.
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Danish language
Danish (dansk, dansk sprog) is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in Denmark and in the region of Southern Schleswig in northern Germany, where it has minority language status.
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Danish Meteorological Institute
The Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI; Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut) is the official Danish meteorological institute, administrated by the Ministry of Energy, Utilities and Climate.
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Deep time
Deep time is the concept of geologic time.
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Denmark
Denmark (Danmark), officially the Kingdom of Denmark,Kongeriget Danmark,.
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Denmark–Sweden border
The current national border between Denmark and Sweden dates to 1658.
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Dragør
Dragør is the main town and the seat of the municipal council of Dragør Municipality, (Denmark), which includes the village of Store Magleby.
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Drogden
Drogden is a channel through Øresund.
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Eric of Pomerania
Eric of Pomerania KG (1381 or 1382 – 24 September 1459) was the ruler of the Kalmar Union from 1396 until 1439, succeeding his adoptive mother, Queen Margaret I. He is numbered Eric III as King of Norway (1389–1442), Eric VII as King of Denmark (1396–1439) and Eric XIII as King of Sweden (1396–1434, 1436–39).
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Falsterbo
Falsterbo is a town located at the south-western tip of Sweden in Vellinge Municipality in Skåne.
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Flakfortet
Flakfortet, meaning sand-shoal fortress, is a sea fort located on the artificially built island of Saltholmrev, in the Øresund between Copenhagen and Saltholm.
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Flatfish
A flatfish is a member of the order Pleuronectiformes of ray-finned demersal fishes, also called the Heterosomata, sometimes classified as a suborder of Perciformes.
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Fortification
A fortification is a military construction or building designed for the defense of territories in warfare; and is also used to solidify rule in a region during peacetime.
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Göta Canal
The Göta Canal (Göta kanal) is a Swedish canal constructed in the early 19th century.
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Gilleleje
Gilleleje is one of the main towns of the Gribskov municipality in Region Hovedstaden in Denmark.
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Gothenburg
Gothenburg (abbreviated Gbg; Göteborg) is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries.
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Gråen
Gråen is a small artificial Swedish island in Øresund, originally constructed during the 18th century both in order to protect Landskrona harbour and for military reasons related to the nearby Landskrona Citadel.
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Great Belt
The Great Belt (Storebælt) is a strait between the major islands of Zealand (Sjælland) and Funen (Fyn) in Denmark.
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Greater Copenhagen (metropolitan region)
Greater Copenhagen (formally called the Øresund Region, Øresundsregionen; Öresundsregionen) is a metropolitan region that comprises eastern Denmark and Skåne in southern Sweden.
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Helsingør
Helsingør, classically known in English as Elsinore, is a city in eastern Denmark.
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Helsingborg
Helsingborg (spelled Hälsingborg between 1912 and 1970) is a town and the seat of Helsingborg Municipality, Scania, Sweden.
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HH Ferry route
The HH Ferry route (About the name: Helsingør - Helsingborg; Helsingør is Danish for Elsinore) is a very old shipping route which connects Helsingør at Zealand, Denmark and Helsingborg, Scania, Sweden across the northern, and narrowest part of the Øresund.
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Icelandic language
Icelandic (íslenska) is a North Germanic language, and the language of Iceland.
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International waters
The terms international waters or trans-boundary waters apply where any of the following types of bodies of water (or their drainage basins) transcend international boundaries: oceans, large marine ecosystems, enclosed or semi-enclosed regional seas and estuaries, rivers, lakes, groundwater systems (aquifers), and wetlands.
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Kattegat
The Kattegat (Kattegatt) is a sea area bounded by the Jutlandic peninsula in the west, the Danish straits islands of Denmark to the south and the provinces of Västergötland, Scania, Halland and Bohuslän in Sweden in the east.
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Kärnan
Kärnan (Kernen, both literally The Core) is a medieval tower in Helsingborg, Scania, in southern Sweden.
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Køge Bugt
Køge Bugt or Køge Bay is an approximately 500 km2-shallow Danish bay in the southern part of Øresund, between Greater Copenhagen area in the North (or more precisely the southernmost peak of Amager) and Stevns Klint in the South, and as a part of Zealand.
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Kiel Canal
The Kiel Canal (Nord-Ostsee-Kanal, literally "North--Baltic Sea canal", formerly known as the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal) is a long freshwater canal in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein.
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Kronborg
Kronborg is a castle and stronghold in the town of Helsingør, Denmark.
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Kullaberg
Kullaberg is a peninsula and nature reserve of land protruding into the Kattegat in Höganäs Municipality near the town of Mölle in southwest Sweden.
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Lion's mane jellyfish
The lion's mane jellyfish, also known as the giant jellyfish or the hair jelly, is the largest known species of jellyfish.
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Little Belt
The Little Belt is a strait between the island of Funen and the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark.
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Malmö
Malmö (Malmø) is the capital and largest city of the Swedish county of Scania.
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Mejlbystenen
The Mejlbystenen, also known as runic inscription DR 117 from its Rundata catalog listing, is an approximately 1,000-year-old runestone originally located at Mejlby, near Randers in Denmark.
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Middelgrundsfortet
Middelgrundsfortet or Fort Middelgrund is a sea fort located on an artificial island in the Øresund between Copenhagen and Malmö.
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Military
A military or armed force is a professional organization formally authorized by a sovereign state to use lethal or deadly force and weapons to support the interests of the state.
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North Sea
The North Sea (Mare Germanicum) is a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean located between Great Britain, Scandinavia, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France.
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Old Norse
Old Norse was a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements from about the 9th to the 13th century.
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Ordbog over det danske Sprog
Ordbog over det danske Sprog (Danish: "dictionary of the Danish language") or ODS is a comprehensive dictionary of the Danish language, describing its usage from c. 1700 to 1955 in great detail.
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Peberholm
Peberholm (Pepper Islet, Pepparholm), is a small artificial island in the Danish part of the Øresund strait, created as part of the Øresund Bridge connecting Denmark with Sweden.
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Per mille
A per milleCambridge Dictionary Online.
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Rotterdam
Rotterdam is a city in the Netherlands, in South Holland within the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt river delta at the North Sea.
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Rundata
The Scandinavian Runic-text Data Base (Samnordisk runtextdatabas) is a project involving the creation and maintenance of a database of runic inscriptions.
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Saltholm
Saltholm (Salt Islet) is a Danish island in the Øresund, the strait that separates Denmark and Sweden.
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Scania
Scania, also known as Skåne, is the southernmost province (landskap) of Sweden.
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Sea level rise
A sea level rise is an increase in global mean sea level as a result of an increase in the volume of water in the world’s oceans.
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Skagerrak
The Skagerrak is a strait running between the southeast coast of Norway, the southwest coast of Sweden, and the Jutland peninsula of Denmark, connecting the North Sea and the Kattegat sea area, which leads to the Baltic Sea.
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Skanör
Skanör is a town in Vellinge Municipality and part of the conurbation Skanör med Falsterbo in southwestern Scania, Sweden.
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Sound Dues
The Sound Dues (or Sound Toll; Øresundstolden) were a toll on the use of the Øresund which constituted up to two thirds of Denmark's state income in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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Spit (landform)
A spit or sandspit is a deposition bar or beach landform off coasts or lake shores.
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Stevns Klint
Stevns Klint is a white chalk cliff located some southeast of Store Heddinge on the Danish island of Zealand.
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Stevns Peninsula
Stevns Peninsula is a peninsula on Sjælland in Denmark.
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Strait
A strait is a naturally formed, narrow, typically navigable waterway that connects two larger bodies of water.
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Sweden
Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.
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Swedish Academy
The Swedish Academy (Svenska Akademien), founded in 1786 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies of Sweden.
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Swedish language
Swedish is a North Germanic language spoken natively by 9.6 million people, predominantly in Sweden (as the sole official language), and in parts of Finland, where it has equal legal standing with Finnish.
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Treaty of Roskilde
The Treaty of Roskilde was concluded on 26 February (OS) or 8 March 1658 (NS) during the Second Northern War between Frederick III of Denmark–Norway and Charles X Gustav of Sweden in the Danish city of Roskilde.
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Ven (Sweden)
Ven (Hven, older Swedish spelling Hven) is a small Swedish island in the Øresund strait, between Scania and Zealand (Denmark).
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Viking Age
The Viking Age (793–1066 AD) is a period in European history, especially Northern European and Scandinavian history, following the Germanic Iron Age.
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Zealand
Zealand (Sjælland), at 7,031 km2, is the largest and most populous island in Denmark proper (thus excluding Greenland and Disko Island, which are larger).
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Øresund
