Denmark-Norway

**Denmark-Norway** is a term (or a kind of name used about) the union between Denmark and Norway. The union was a kind that is called a _real union_. The name Denmark-Norway, is a modern name. It came into use some time after the union had ended.

The **Kingdom of Denmark-Norway** was a union between the two kingdoms Denmark and Norway. They were previously in the Kalmar Union with Sweden. The Kingdom of Denmark-Norway lasted from 1536 to 1814. The capital of both countries was Copenhagen, and they shared the same military. The kingdom also possessed colonies in Greenland, Iceland, Africa, the Caribbean and India.

Borders between nations, sometimes change. Denmark-Norway had (some) land in what today is

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Denmark-Norway had a small colony in each of the following places
- Present-day Saint Thomas and Saint Croix,  United States and present-day Saint John.

## Monarchs

- 1524–1533: Frederick I
- 1588–1648: Christian IV
- 1648–1670: Frederick III
- 1808–1814: Frederick VI

## Infobox (country)

- **conventional long name**: Denmark–Norway
- **common name**: Denmark Norway
- **native name**: (Danish language, Danish and Norwegian language, Norwegian: )
- **image flag**: Royal Standard of Denmark (1731–1819).svg
- **flag**: Flag of Denmark-Norway
- **flag border**: no
- **flag caption**: Flag of Denmark, Royal Standard of Denmark-Norway

- **flag size**: 150px
- **image coat**: Royal Arms of Denmark & Norway (1699–1819).svg
- **coa size**: 90px
- **symbol**: Royal coat of arms of Denmark
- **symbol type**: Coat of arms

- **national motto**: _Regna firmat pietas_
 ("Piety strengthens the realms")
 Used from 1588–1648
- **anthem**: _Kong Christian stod ved højen mast_
 Used from 1780–1814
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- **image map**: Denmark-Norway in 1780.svg
- **image map caption**: Map of Denmark–Norway,
- **era**: Early modern Europe
- **status**: State union
- **government type**: Monarchy
- **year start**: 1537
- **year end**: 1814
- **life span**: 1537–1814
- **event pre**: Gustav I of Sweden, Gustav Vasa elected
list of Swedish monarchs, King of Sweden
- **date pre**:
6 June 1523
- **event start**: Kalmar Union collapsed
- **event1**: Norwegian
abolished
- **date event1**:
1537
- **event4**: Danish
abolished
- **date event4**:
14 October 1660
- **event5**: King's Law, _Lex Regia_ confirms
absolute monarchy, absolutism
- **date event5**:
14 November 1665
- **event2**: Second Treaty of Brömsebro (1645), Treaty of Brömsebro
- **date event2**: 13 August 1645
- **event3**: Treaty of Roskilde
- **date event3**: 26 February 1658
- **event end**: Treaty of Kiel
- **date end**: 14 January
- **event post**: Congress of Vienna
- **date post**: September 1814 – June 1815
- **p1**: Kalmar Union
- **s1**: Unitary State (Denmark)Danish Unitary State
- **flag s1**: Flag of Denmark (state).svg
- **s2**: Union between Sweden and NorwaySweden–Norway
- **flag s2**: Union Jack of Sweden and Norway (1844-1905).svg
- **s3**: Kingdom of Norway (1814)Norway
- **flag s3**: Flag of the Kingdom of Norway (1814).svg
- **s4**: :en:Countship of LarvikCounty of Larvik (1814–1817)
- **capital**: Copenhagen
- **common languages**: **Official:**
Danish language, Danish, German language, German, Renaissance Latin
**Also spoken:** Norwegian language, Norwegian, Icelandic language, Icelandic, Faroese language, Faroese, Sami languages, Greenlandic language, Greenlandic,
North Frisian language, North Frisian
- **religion**: Lutheranism, Lutheran
- **title leader**: List of Danish monarchs, King
- **leader1**: Christian III of Denmark, Christian III
- **year leader1**: 1537–1559
- **leader2**: Christian IV of Denmark, Christian IV
- **year leader2**: 1588–1648
- **leader3**: Frederick III of Denmark, Frederick III
- **year leader3**: 1648–1670
- **leader4**: Frederick VI of Denmark, Frederick VI
- **year leader4**: 1808–1814
- **stat year1**: 1645
- **stat pop1**: 1,315,000
- **stat year2**: 1801
- **stat pop2**: 1,859,000
- **stat year3**: 1800
- **stat area3**: 2655567
- **currency**: * Danish rigsdaler
(1625–1814)
* Norwegian rigsdaler
(1625–1814)
- **legislature**: * _Riksråd_ and _:no:Herredag, Herredag_
*
- **footnotes**: * **a**: Frederick VI of Denmark, Frederick VI was regency (government), regent for his father, so ruled as _de facto_ king from 14 April 1784; he continued to rule Denmark after the Treaty of Kiel until his death on 3 December 1839.
* **b**: Estimated 825,000 in Denmark, 440,000 in Norway and 50,000 in Iceland
* **c**: 929,000 in Denmark, 883,000 in Norway and 47,000 in Iceland