Slesvig
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Slesvig is the Danish name for:
  • Schleswig, Schleswig-Holstein, a German city
  • The former Duchy of Schleswig (also: Southern Jutland
    Southern Jutland
    Southern Jutland is the name for the region south of the Kongeå in Jutland, Denmark. The region north of the Kongeå is called Nørrejylland . Both territories had their own ting assemblies in the Middle Ages . South Jutland is mentioned for the first time in the Knýtlinga saga.In the 13th century...

    )
  • A former name for Hedeby
    Hedeby
    Hedeby |heath]]land, and býr = yard, thus "heath yard"), mentioned by Alfred the Great as aet Haethe , in German Haddeby and Haithabu, a modern spelling of the runic Heiðabý was an important trading settlement in the Danish-northern German borderland during the Viking Age...

    , a Viking Age trading center, originally the largest town in the Nordic Countries
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