Danish-Norwegian Union ; in foreign historiography - the Danish-Norwegian state, the Danish-Norwegian kingdom , Denmark-Norway ( Danmark-Norge ), - the real union of Denmark and Norway , which existed from 1536 to 1814; the state also included the Faroe Islands , Iceland and Greenland . The Danish-Norwegian union replaced the Kalmar Union , which united all three Scandinavian kingdoms, after Gustav I Waza became the king of Sweden.
| Personal union | |||||
| Denmark-Norway | |||||
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| Danmark-Norge | |||||
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 Danish-Norwegian state circa 1780 | |||||
←   → →1536 - 1814 | |||||
| Capital | Copenhagen | ||||
| Languages) | Danish , Norwegian , German , also Icelandic , Faroese and Sami | ||||
| Religion | Lutheranism | ||||
| Square | 487 476 km² (1780) | ||||
| Population | 1 315 000 (1645) 1,859,000 (1801) | ||||
| Form of government | monarchy | ||||
| Official language | and | ||||
Denmark dominated the union, the rulers of which from the Oldenburg dynasty ruled the kingdom, the official languages were Danish and German . The title of king was "The King of Denmark and Norway, Vendian and Goth" (the titles of the King are ready and the Vends, in reverse order, were also worn by the Swedish kings).
Union has had a great influence on the development of Norwegian culture; Norwegian literary language was Danish, then, in the XIX century, after the collapse of the Union, began to develop, and in the XX century. The main modern literary language of Norway, Boqmol , was codified - basically Danish with a number of Norwegian features introduced into it.
During the Napoleonic wars after the bombing of Copenhagen by the British, the Danish-Norwegian kingdom was embroiled in the devastating Anglo-Danish war of 1807-1814 . According to the results of its Denmark declared itself bankrupt (1813) and ceded continental Norway under the Treaty of Kiel (1814) to the king of Sweden; at the same time, the overseas possessions of Norway - the Faroes, Greenland and Iceland - remained with Denmark. The Norwegians rebelled against this decision, adopted a constitution and elected Christian Frederick (future King of Denmark Christian VIII) as their king, but after the invasion of the Swedish troops Christian was deposed, and the old Swedish king Charles XIII formally became the king of Norway, who was replaced four years later by the founder home Bernadot Karl XIV Juhan . So the Danish-Norwegian union was replaced by the Swedish-Norwegian (with the preservation of a separate Norwegian constitution ), which existed until 1905 .