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🇵🇱 Poland · Ancient city
Early Middle Ages (8th–12th c., Viking Age peak 900–1100) · Pomeranian Slavs (Wolinian) + Viking Jomsvikings
Wolin (Jomsburg–Vineta) Slavic–Viking Emporium in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Kamień County, Wolin Island, Dziwna river mouth, Poland is a Early Middle Ages (8th–12th c., Viking Age peak 900–1100)…
🇱🇻 Latvia · Ancient city
Migration → Vendel → Viking Age 650–850 (Curonian–Scandinavian) · Curonian Baltic + Gotlandic–Swedish Vendel–Viking (Seeburg)
Grobiņa (Grobin/Seeburg, Cur. *Gruobins*) — Curonian–Gotlandic–Swedish emporium (c.650–850, Great Migration → Viking Age) on Ālande River 8 km east Liepāja, South Courland, largest Scandinavian…
🇩🇪 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…
🇳🇴 Norway · Ancient city
Viking Age (early, c.800–980 CE) · Viking Norse (Yngling/Danish sphere)
Kaupang in Skiringssal (c.800–930 CE) was Norway's first urban trading center, a 54-hectare seasonal and permanent emporium on the sheltered Viksfjord beach at the head of the Skagerrak.
🇩🇰 Denmark · Ancient city
Viking Age (Early, c.710–850 CE core; medieval to 1700) · Danish Viking (Merovingian–Carolingian contact)
Ribe, founded c.710 CE on a terp above the Ribe Å wadden marsh, is Denmark's oldest town, a 13-hectare planned market grid of north–south plots along the river where artisans produced glass beads,…
🇩🇰 Denmark · Ancient city
Early Medieval Viking Age 704–900 (Denmark's oldest town dendro 704) · Danish Viking Age (South Jutland emporium — Frisian–Frankish contact)
Ribe — Viking Age emporium and Denmark's oldest town (dendro 704–710 market 8th c foundation, peak 700–900), on Ribe River 5 km from Wadden Sea tidal flats, southern Jutland. Excavated M.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Ancient city
Viking Age Scandinavian 750–975 (8th–10th c) · Scandinavian Viking Age (Svear) — Svear–Gotlandic emporium
Birka (Björkö) — Scandinavian Viking Age emporium (c.750–975 CE) on Björkö island in Lake Mälaren, 30 km west Stockholm, Sweden's oldest town and UNESCO 555 (with Hovgården Adelsö estate).
🇩🇪 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…
🇩🇪 Germany · Ancient city
Early Medieval Slavic Viking Age 750–900 · Slavic Rani (Rujaner) principality — Rugian Slavs
Ralswiek — Slavic Rani princely port-emporium (c.750–850 CE peak, with 8th c predecessor and 9th–10th c princely hall) on Großer Jasmunder Bodden isthmus, Rügen, controlling lagoon–Bay of Greifswald…
🇸🇪 Sweden · Ancient city
Viking Age (750–975 CE) · Scandinavian Viking Age
Viking Age emporium on Björkö island in Lake Mälaren, founded c.750 CE and abandoned c.975, with fortified town area (Borg), harbour, cemeteries of over 3,000 graves and famous chamber grave Bj 581.
