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| Posted by Ceciliabr at Oct 26, 2019, 11:34:55 PM |
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Re: Off the beating track @ Puybaret There used to be a union, as you probably know, between Denmark and Norway. What you might not know, is that Denmark plundered the Norwegian silver mines for 300 years during the union, and that most of Copenhagen's grandiose and monumental architecture comes from shoplifting Norwegian silver and shipping it to the Danish monarch, leaving Norway with nearly empty silver mines when they, due to the Danish king Frederik VI's support to Napoleon during the Napoleon wars, lost Norway to Sweden in 1814. To day it's obvious that Denmark being on the loosing side, was the best thing that could happen to Norway. The Swedes proved unable to see the value of keeping control of Norway, just like they, seventy five years later, failed to see the value of a deal that would have granted them nearly five hundred billion Euros! Imagine what Copenhagen would had looked like today, had Denmark been in control of Norways enormous oil reserves. I love being Danish and I love living in Denmark, but to be honest: My heart belongs to Norway. Cec |
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