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By the mid-11th century, the North Germanic tribes had been converted from paganism to Christianity and were under the rule of centralized states. These states were the kingdoms of Norway, Sweden and Denmark. The Scandinavian settlements in Greenland disappeared in the 15th century. Modern North Germanic ethnic groups are the Danes, Faroese people, Icelanders, Norwegians and Swedes. These ethnic groups are often referred to as "Scandinavians". Although North Germanic, Icelanders and the Faroese, and even the Danes, are sometimes not included as "Scandinavians". North Germanic peoples are sometimes called "Nordic peoples" by historians. Along with the Germans, the English and the Dutch, they constitute one of the main branches of the Germanic peoples.