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folk high school

(Encyclopedia)folk high school, type of adult education that in its most widely known form originated in Denmark in the middle of the 19th cent. The idea as originally conceived by Bishop Nikolai Grundtvig was to s...

Charles XI, king of Sweden

(Encyclopedia)Charles XI, 1655–97, king of Sweden (1660–97), son and successor of Charles X. Charles ascended the throne at the age of five, so a council of regency ruled until 1672. The regency ended Swedish w...

Christian X

(Encyclopedia)Christian X, 1870–1947, king of Denmark (1912–47) and Iceland (1912–44), son and successor of Frederick VIII and brother of King Haakon VII of Norway. He granted (1915) a new constitution that i...

Laaland

(Encyclopedia)Laaland: see Lolland, Denmark.

Århus

(Encyclopedia)Århus, Denmark: see Aarhus.

Möen

(Encyclopedia)Möen: see Møn, Denmark.

København

(Encyclopedia)København, Denmark: see Copenhagen. ...

Frederiksberg

(Encyclopedia)Frederiksberg, Denmark: see Copenhagen. ...

Gentofte

(Encyclopedia)Gentofte, Denmark: see Copenhagen. ...

Alsen

(Encyclopedia)Alsen: see Als, Denmark.