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| State: | Schleswig-Holstein |
| Capital: | Schleswig |
| Area: | 2072 km² |
| Inhabitants: | 198,800 (2002) |
| pop. density: | 96 inh./km² |
| Car identification: | SL |
| Homepage: | http://www.schleswig-flensburg.de |
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Written history in the area began about 800 AD, when the Viking settlement of Haithabu was founded. Later the neighbouring city of Schleswig took the place of Haithabu and became a powerful town in the 11th century. It later lost its power to Lübeck.
The district was established in 19741974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). Events January-February January 5 Dungeons & Dragons officially released. February 4 Patricia Hearst, the 19 year old granddaughter of publisher William Randolph Hearst, is kidnapped by merging the former districts of Flensburg-Land and Schleswig. Due to the neighbourhood of Denmark and the regional history there is a large percentage of Danish inhabitants.
The countryside is generally plain. The Schlei, a firthFirth is the Scots word often used to denote a large sea bay in Scotland, which may be part of an estuary, or just an inlet, or even a strait (as in the case of the Pentland Firth). It is cognate to fjord which has a more narrow sense in English, whereas of the Baltic Sea, is the southern border of this district. All the land north of the Schlei and south of Flensburg is called the peninsula of AngelnAngeln (Angelen) is a peninsula in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, protruding into the Baltic Sea. It is separated from the peninsula of Schwansen by the Schlei inlet, and from the Danish island of Als by the Flensburger Forde ("firth of Flensburg"). The reg. Angeln was the ancient home of the Germanic peopleThe term Germanic peoples may refer to: the Germanic tribes that in the first millennium were seen as a barbarian threat by the Roman Empire and its successors; the Germanic Christianity that in the second millennium came to dominate much of Northern Euro known as the Angles, which migrated to Britain in the early Middle AgesThe Middle Ages formed the middle period in a schematic division of European history into three 'ages': Classical civilization, the Middle Ages, and Modern Civilization. It is commonly dated from the end of the Western Roman Empire ( 5th century) until th.