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🇩🇪 Germany · Ancient city
Viking Age (c.770–1066 CE) · Danish Viking (later German Ottonian)
Hedeby (Heiðabýr, 8th–11th century CE), on the Haddebyer Noor inlet at the base of the Jutland Peninsula, was the largest Viking Age emporium in Scandinavia, a 27-hectare semicircular…
🇩🇪 Germany · Earthwork
Migration → Viking Age → Medieval 500–1160 (Godfred 808 → Valdemar I brick) · Danish Iron Age → Viking Age (Danevirke Danish border wall, Godfred–Bluetooth)
Danevirke (Danewerk) — Iron Age → Viking Age linear fortification (5th–12th c, 30 km wall system between North Sea Treene marsh and Baltic Schlei fjord) 7 km west Schleswig town, Schleswig isthmus…
🇩🇪 Germany · Ancient city
Viking Age (early 8th century–1066 CE) · Danish Viking Age / Frankish border
UNESCO Archaeological Border Complex of Hedeby and Danevirke (2018) at the head of the Schlei inlet — the largest Viking Age town in Scandinavia, semi-circular 27 ha rampart enclosing plot-divided…
