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List Of Danish Colonial Trading Posts And Settlements
The following were trading posts and settlements owned by the Danish colonial empire and respective Chartered companies: Europe Iceland 1602 – 1786 * Ísafjörður * Reykjarfjörður * Þingeyri * Bíldudalur * Patreksfjörður * Stykkishólmur * Ólafsvík * Grundarfjörður * Búðir * Arnarstapi * Keflavík * básendar * Grindavík * Reykjavík * Hafnarfjörður * Eyrarbakki * Vestmannaeyjar * Skagaströnd * Akureyri * Húsavík * Vopnafjörður * Reyðarfjörður * Djúpivogur Svalbard * Smeerenburg 1619 – 1625 * Cookery of Harlingen 1630s Americas Canada * Churchill River (''Nova Dania'') September 1619 – 16 July 1620 Caribbean * Saint John (''Sankt Jan'') 1671 – 1917 * Saint Thomas (''Sankt Thomas'') 1671 – 1917 * Saint Croix (''Sankt Croix'') 15 June 1733 – 1917 * Crab Island (''Krabbe Øen)'' 1698 – 1763 Greenland * Nuuk (''Godthaab'') 1728 – 1950 * Qasigiannguit (''Christianshaab'') 1734 – 1950 * Ilulissat (''Jacobshavn'') 1741 – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danish Colonial Empire
Danish overseas colonies and Dano-Norwegian colonies () were the colonies that Denmark–Norway (Denmark after 1814) possessed from 1537 until 1953. At its apex, the colonies spanned four continents: Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America.Prem Poddar, and Lars Jensen, eds., ''A historical companion to postcolonial literatures: Continental Europe and Its Empires'' (Edinburgh UP, 2008), "Denmark and its colonies" pp 58-105. The period of colonial expansion marked a rise in the status and power of Danes and Norwegians in the Kalmar Union. Danes and Norwegians during this time increasingly saw themselves as citizens of the same "State Fatherland" (), the realm of the Oldenburg monarchs. In the 17th century, following territorial losses on the Scandinavian Peninsula, Denmark–Norway began to develop forts with trading posts in West Africa, and colonies in the Caribbean, and the Indian subcontinent. Christian IV first initiated the policy of expanding Denmark–Norway's overseas t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
