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The three
lands of Denmark
historically formed the
Danish kingdom
from its unification and consolidation in the 10th century:
Each of the lands retained their own
thing
(
ting
) and statute laws until late medieval time (
Jutlandic Law
,
Zealandic Law
and
Scanian Law
). Although Denmark was a unified kingdom, the custom of rendering
homage
to the King at the three individual assemblies remained. A remnant is the current division of Denmark into two
High Court districts
, the Eastern and Western High Court.
During the early 19th century,
Zealand
and
Fyn
became administratively united as
Østifterne
with a provincial assembly in Roskilde.
Jutland
,
The Islands
and
Bornholm
remains an informal subdivision still used, notably in
meteorology
and public
statistics
.
Bornholm
is the only part to represent Scania after the rest of the region was lost to
Sweden
in 1658. (Bornholm was also lost in 1658, but was recovered two years later.)
In recent decades, the less specific division between
Eastern
and
Western
Denmark has also become common, for example when describing
logistic
,
economic
and political patterns. Funen may be attributed to both the eastern and western part of the country, the border line being either the
Great Belt
or the
Little Belt
.
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