Jutland Peninsula

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Jutland Peninsula

The Jutland Peninsula (Jyske halvø) or Cimbrian Peninsula (Kimbriske halvø) is a peninsula

Peninsula

A peninsula is a piece of Landform that is nearly surrounded by water but connected to mainland via an isthmus. Word origin: Latin paeninsula : paene, almost + insula, island....
in Europe

Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
. The names are derived from the Jutes

Jutes

The Jutes, Iuti, or Iutae were a Germanic people who, according to Bede, were one of the three most powerful Germanic peoples of the time....
and the Cimbri

Cimbri

The Cimbri were a Celtic or Germanic peoples tribe who together with the Teutones and the Ambrones threatened the Roman Republic in the late 2nd century BC....
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The historic region of Jutland

Jutland

File:Jutland peninsula 2.pngJutland , historically also called Cimbria, is a peninsula in Europe. Jutland forms the mainland part of Denmark as well as the northernmost part of Germany....
, the area that was covered by Codex Holmiensis

Codex Holmiensis

Codex Holmiensis is the manuscript of the Denmark Code of Jutland, codified under Valdemar II of Denmark. The code covered Funen and Jutland down to the Eider River....
(Jyske Lov) covered the Jutland Peninsula area north of Eider River

Eider River

The Eider is the longest river of the Germany States of Germany of Schleswig-Holstein. The river starts near Bordesholm and reaches the southwestern outskirts of Kiel on the shores of the Baltic Sea, but flows to the west, ending in the North Sea....
and included Funen

Funen

Funen , with a size of 2,984 km? , is the third-largest List of islands of Denmark following Zealand and Vendsyssel-Thy, and the List of islands by area largest island of the world....
, the North Jutlandic Island and other smaller islands.

Its terrain is relatively flat, with heaths, plains and peat

Peat

Southern Schleswig

Southern Schleswig is a name for the geographical area covering the thirty or forty northernmost kilometers of Germany, where Germany borders upon Denmark....
form the historic region South Jutland

South Jutland

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Subregions

Northern Schleswig and Southern Schleswig

Southern Schleswig

South Jutland

South Jutland is the name for the region south of the Konge? in Jutland. The region north of the Konge? is called N?rrejylland . Both territories had their own Thing assemblies in the Middle Ages ....
(Sønderjylland). The Duchy of Schleswig covered almost the same area.

Northern Schleswig until 2006 was South Jutland County

South Jutland County

South Jutland County is a former counties of Denmark on the south-central portion of the Jutland Peninsula in southern Denmark.The county was formed on April 1 1970, comprising the former counties of Aabenraa County , Haderslev County , S?nderborg County , and T?nder County ....
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Geography

Its terrain is relatively flat, with heaths, plains and peat

Peat

Peat is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation biological tissue. Peat forms in wetlands or peatlands, variously called bogs, Moorland, muskegs, pocosins, mires, and peat swamp forests....
bogs in the west and a more elevated and slightly hilly terrain in the east. The Danish portion has an area of 29,775 km² (11,496 square miles) and a population of 2,513,601 (2007). Population density is 84 per km² (218 per sq.mi.).

The northernmost part of Jutland is separated by the Limfjord

Limfjord

The Limfjord is a shallow sound in Denmark that separates the island of Vendsyssel-Thy from the rest of Jutland Peninsula. It extends from Thybor?n Channel on the North Sea to Hals Municipality on the Kattegat....
from the mainland

Mainland

Mainland is usually the continental part of a region, as opposed to the islands nearby. Sometimes the residents are called "the Mainlanders". As a result of the usually larger area of mainland, there are significantly more mainlanders than islanders, and mainlander culture and politics sometimes threaten to dominate those of the islands....
, but is still commonly reckoned as part of the peninsula. It only became an island

Island

An island or isle is any piece of land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls are called islets....
following a flood

Flood

A flood is an overflow of an expanse of water that submerges land, a deluge. In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide....
in 1825. The area is called the North Jutlandic Island, Vendsyssel

Vendsyssel

Vendsyssel is the northernmost traditional district of Denmark and of Jutland. Being divided from mainland Jutland by the Limfjord, it is technically a part of the Vendsyssel-Thy....
-Thy (after its districts) or simply Jutland north of the Limfjord; it is only partly coterminous with the region called North Jutland.

The islands Læsø

Læsø

L?s? is the largest island in the North Sea bay of Kattegat, and is located off the northeast coast of the Jutland Peninsula, the Denmark mainland....
, Anholt

Anholt (Denmark)

Anholt is a Denmark island in the Kattegat. The island covers an area of 21,75 km? and has 160 permanent inhabitants. The island can be reached by ferry from Gren?....
and Samsø

Samsø

Sams? is a Denmark island in the Kattegat 15 kilometers off the Jutland Peninsula. Sams? is located in Sams? municipality. The community has 4,300 inhabitants called Samsingers and is 114 km? in area....
in Kattegat

Kattegat

The Kattegat , or Kattegatt is a sea area bounded by Jutland , and Scania, Halland and Bohusl?n . The Baltic Sea drains into the Kattegat through the Oresund and the Danish Straits....
and Als at the rim of the Baltic Sea

Baltic Sea

The Baltic Sea is a brackish inland sea located in Northern Europe, from 53?N to 66?N latitude and from 20?E to 26?E longitude. It is bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of Europe, and the Denmark islands....
South are administratively and historically tied to Jutland, although especially the latter two are also regarded traditional districts of their own. Inhabitants of Als would agree to be South Jutlanders, but not necessarily Jutlanders.

The Danish Wadden Sea Islands

Danish Wadden Sea Islands

The Danish Wadden Sea Islands are a group of islands on the western coast of Jutland, Denmark. They belong to the new Regions of Denmark Region Syddanmark since January 1, 2007....
and the German North Frisian Islands

North Frisian Islands

The North Frisian Islands are a group of islands in the Wadden Sea, a part of the North Sea, off the western coast of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany....
stretch along the southwest coast of Jutland in the German Bight

German Bight

German Bight is the south-eastern Bight of the North Sea bounded by the Netherlands and Germany to the south, and Denmark and Germany to the east ....
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