Denmark-Norway

Denmark–Norway
*Danmark–Norge*
Denmark–Norway Danmark–Norge
1523–1533; 1537–1814
	Flag Coat of arms
	Map of Denmark–Norway, c. 1780
Status	Personal union (1524–1533); Dual monarchy (Real union) (1537–1814)
Capital	Copenhagen ; and Oslo (Only in Norway 1523–1537)
Common languages	Official: ; Danish, German, Renaissance Latin; Also spoken: Norwegian, Icelandic, Faroese, Sami, Greenlandic
Religion	Lutheran
Government	Elective monarchy 1523–1660 (Denmark) ; Hereditary monarchy 1660–1814 (Denmark); (Absolutism since 1660); Elective monarchy 1523–1537 (Norway (de facto)); Hereditary monarchy 1537–1814 (Absolutism since 1661)
King
• 1524–1533	Frederick I
• 1588–1648	Christian IV
• 1648–1670	Frederick III
• 1808–1814a	Frederick VI
Legislature	Riksråd and Herredag; Absolute monarchy 1660–1814; Norwegian Government commission 1807–1810;
Historical era	Early modern Europe
• Gustav Vasa elected; King of Sweden	; June 6, 1523
• Kalmar Union collapsed	1523
• Norwegian riksråd; abolished	; 1537
• Danish rigsråd; abolished	; October 14, 1660
• Lex Regia confirms; absolutism	; November 14, 1665
• Treaty of Brömsebro	August 13, 1645
• Treaty of Roskilde	February 26, 1658
• Treaty of Kiel	January 14, 1814
• Congress of Vienna	September 1814 – June 1815
Area
1780b	487,476 km2 (188,216 sq mi)
Population
• 1645c	1315000
• 1801d	1859000
Currency	Danish rigsdaler; Norwegian rigsdaler;
Preceded by	Succeeded by
	Kalmar Union
Denmark
Kingdom of Norway (1814)
Today part of
	a: Frederick VI was regent for his father, so ruled as de facto king from April 14, 1784; he continued to rule Denmark after the Treaty of Kiel until his death on December 3, 1839.; b: Denmark (43,094 km2 or 16,639 sq mi), Schleswig-Holstein (15,763 km2 or 6,086 sq mi), Norway (mainland: 324,220 km2 or 125,180 sq mi), Faroes (1,399 km2 or 540 sq mi), Iceland (103,000 km2 or 40,000 sq mi). (With Greenland: additional 2,175,600 km2 or 840,000 sq mi.); c: Estimated 825,000 in Denmark, 440,000 in Norway and 50,000 in Iceland; d: 929,000 in Denmark, 883,000 in Norway and 47,000 in Iceland;

Denmark-Norway is a term (or a kind of name used about) the union between Denmark and Norway. The union was a kind that is called a real union. The name Denmark-Norway, is a modern name. It came into use some time after the union had ended.

The Kingdom of Denmark-Norway was a union between the two kingdoms Denmark and Norway. They were previously in the Kalmar Union with Sweden. The Kingdom of Denmark-Norway lasted from 1536 to 1814.^[5]^[6] The capital of both countries was Copenhagen, and they shared the same military. The kingdom also possessed colonies in Greenland, Iceland, Africa, the Caribbean and India.

Borders between nations, sometimes change. Denmark-Norway had (some) land in what today is

Denmark-Norway had a small colony in each of the following places

Present-day Saint Thomas and Saint Croix, United States and present-day Saint John.
India
Ghana

Monarchs

1524–1533: Frederick I
1588–1648: Christian IV
1648–1670: Frederick III
1808–1814: Frederick VI

References

↑ citation |last=Slagstad |first=Rune |title=Shifting Knowledge Regimes: the Metamorphoses of Norwegian Reformism |year=2004 |journal=Thesis Eleven |volume=77 |issue=1 |pages=65–83 |doi=10.1177/0725513604044236 |s2cid=145108242}}
↑ regjeringen.no (5 July 2011). "A Forerunner to the Norwegian Council of State". Government.no.
↑ Historisk Tidsskrift: Nyt om Trediveårskrigen (in Danish)
↑ Tacitus.no – Skandinaviens befolkning (in Swedish)
↑ "Denmark". World Statesmen. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
↑ "Norway". World Statesmen. Retrieved 18 January 2015.

[1] tation |last=Slagstad |first=Rune |title=Shifting Knowledge Regimes: the Metamorphoses of Norwegian Reformism |year=2004 |journal=Thesis Eleven |volume=77 |issue=1 |pages=65–83 |doi=10.1177/0725513604044236 |s2cid=145108242}}

[2] regjeringen.no (5 July 2011). "A Forerunner to the Norwegian Council of State". Government.no.

[3] Historisk Tidsskrift: Nyt om Trediveårskrigen (in Danish)

[4] Tacitus.no – Skandinaviens befolkning (in Swedish)

[5] "Denmark". World Statesmen. Retrieved 18 January 2015.

[6] "Norway". World Statesmen. Retrieved 18 January 2015.

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