Danish overseas colonies
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Danish overseas colonies and Dano-Norwegian colonies were the colonies that Denmark–Norway possessed from 1537 until 1953. At its apex, the colonies spanned four continents: Africa, Asia, Europe, and
A contemporary depiction of Fort Christiansborg
Reykjavík in 1835
Christiansted in the Danish West Indies, 1831
Godthåb in Greenland, c. 1878
Danish Realm
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The Danish Realm, officially the Kingdom of Denmark, often known as Denmark, is a sovereign state consisting of a collection of constituent territories united by the Constitutional Act, which applies
Danish overseas colonies
…of Norway's medieval colonial holdings. Today, the only remaining vestiges are two originally Norwegian dependencies that are currently within the Danish Realm, the Faroe Islands and Greenland; the Faroes were a Danish county until 1948, while Greenland's colonial status ceased in 1953. They are now autonomous…
Tinganes, in the capital Thorshavn, is the location of the Faroese Home Government.