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Denmark

Kongeriget Danmark

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HISTORY. First organized as a unified state in the 10th century, Denmark acquired approximately its present boundaries in 1815, having ceded Norway to Sweden and its north German territory to Prussia. Denmark became a constitutional monarchy in 1849.

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John Paxton

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© 1980 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited

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Paxton, J. (1980). Denmark. In: Paxton, J. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230271098_43

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