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this is yet another funny article on WP. No sources whatsoever and it shows. Needs to be rewritten, I'm not going to tag it or anything yet though, going to take it up as time permits. -- Termer 08:42, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
The idea of the Danish flag as the official flag of the duchy of Estonia is quite disputable. If we ignore all the legends surrounding the flag, the earliest recorded depiction of it is sometime between 1340 and 1370. Since Denmark gave up Estonia in 1346, depicting the flag here is quite far-fetched. Also, the king might have used his flag in battle or aboard ships but to speak of it as a flag of an administrative area seems somewhat anachronistic. -- ThathĂĄnka Ăyotake ( talk) 01:12, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
Removed this offtopic text. maybe can be used elsewhere. Minnekon ( talk) 12:13, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
In 1559 during the Livonian war the Bishop of Ăsel-Wiek in Old Livonia sold his lands to King Frederick II of Denmark for 30,000 thalers. The Danish king gave the territory to his younger brother Magnus who landed on Saaremaa with an army in 1560. [1] The whole of Saaremaa became a Danish possession in 1573, and remained so until it was transferred to Sweden in 1645. [2]
In 1559 during the Livonian war Frederick II of Denmark bought the Bishopric of Ăsel-Wiek from Prince-Bishop Johannes V von MĂŒnchhausen. The possession was given as an appanage to Magnus, Herzog von Holstein, the brother of Frederick II. Denmark ceded Wiek ( LÀÀnemaa) to the Polish-Lithuanian Union in exchange for Livonian possessions in Ăsel. In 1572, Ăsel was transferred to direct administration by Denmark. In 1645, it was ceded from Denmark to Sweden by the Treaty of Brömsebro.
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this is yet another funny article on WP. No sources whatsoever and it shows. Needs to be rewritten, I'm not going to tag it or anything yet though, going to take it up as time permits. -- Termer 08:42, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
The idea of the Danish flag as the official flag of the duchy of Estonia is quite disputable. If we ignore all the legends surrounding the flag, the earliest recorded depiction of it is sometime between 1340 and 1370. Since Denmark gave up Estonia in 1346, depicting the flag here is quite far-fetched. Also, the king might have used his flag in battle or aboard ships but to speak of it as a flag of an administrative area seems somewhat anachronistic. -- ThathĂĄnka Ăyotake ( talk) 01:12, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
Removed this offtopic text. maybe can be used elsewhere. Minnekon ( talk) 12:13, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
In 1559 during the Livonian war the Bishop of Ăsel-Wiek in Old Livonia sold his lands to King Frederick II of Denmark for 30,000 thalers. The Danish king gave the territory to his younger brother Magnus who landed on Saaremaa with an army in 1560. [1] The whole of Saaremaa became a Danish possession in 1573, and remained so until it was transferred to Sweden in 1645. [2]
In 1559 during the Livonian war Frederick II of Denmark bought the Bishopric of Ăsel-Wiek from Prince-Bishop Johannes V von MĂŒnchhausen. The possession was given as an appanage to Magnus, Herzog von Holstein, the brother of Frederick II. Denmark ceded Wiek ( LÀÀnemaa) to the Polish-Lithuanian Union in exchange for Livonian possessions in Ăsel. In 1572, Ăsel was transferred to direct administration by Denmark. In 1645, it was ceded from Denmark to Sweden by the Treaty of Brömsebro.
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