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___MASK47___ , is a Danish municipality (" kommune ") in Region of Southern Denmark on the island of Funen in central Denmark . The municipality covers an area of , and has a population of 196 , 090 ( 1 April 2014 ). It is the most populous municipality in Region of Southern Denmark . ___MASK68___ ( officially spelled Århus from 1948 until 31 December 2010 ) is the second - largest city in ___MASK66___ and the seat of ___MASK93___ . It is located on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula , in the geographical centre of ___MASK66___ , northwest of Copenhagen and north of Hamburg , Germany . The inner urban area contains 264 , 716 inhabitants and the municipal population is 330 , 639 . ___MASK68___ is the central city in the East Jutland metropolitan area , which had a total population of 1 . 378 million in 2016 . Jutland , also known as the Cimbric or Cimbrian Peninsula , is a peninsula ___MASK99___ ___MASK26___ ___MASK74___ that forms the continental portion ___MASK99___ ___MASK66___ and the northern portion ___MASK99___ Germany . The names are derived from the Jutes and the Cimbri , respectively . Jutland ' s terrain is relatively flat , with open lands , heaths , plains and peat bogs in the west and a more elevated and slightly hilly terrain in the east . Fyns Amt ( English : Funen County ) is a former county ( Danish , " amt ") in ___MASK49___ ___MASK66___ , comprising the islands of Funen , ___MASK27___ , Tåsinge , Ærø , and approximately 90 other islands , of which only 25 are inhabited . The county was formed on 1 April 1970 , comprising the former counties of Odense and Svendborg . The county was abolished from 1 January 2007 , when it merged into Region Syddanmark ( i . e . " Region South ___MASK66___ "). The Nordic countries or Nordics are a geographical and cultural region in ___MASK26___ ___MASK74___ and the North Atlantic , where they are ___MASK84___ commonly known as Norden ( lit ., " The North "). They consist of ___MASK66___ , Finland , Iceland , Norway , and Sweden , including their associated territories ( Greenland , the Faroe Islands , and the Åland Islands ). Funen , with an area ___MASK99___ , is the third - largest island ___MASK99___ ___MASK66___ , after Zealand and Vendsyssel - Thy . It is the 165th - largest island in the world . It is in the central part ___MASK99___ the country and has a population ___MASK99___ 466 , 284 ( 2013 ). The main city is Odense which is connected to the sea by a seldom - used canal . The city ' s shipyard , Odense Steel Shipyard , has been relocated outside Odense proper . Odense is the third - largest city in ___MASK66___ . It has a population of 175 , 245 as of January 2016 , and is the main city of the island of Funen . By ___MASK37___ , Odense is located north of Svendborg , to the south of Aarhus and to the ___MASK82___ of Copenhagen . The city is the seat of ___MASK47___ and was the seat of Odense County until 1970 , and Funen County from 1970 until 1 January 2007 , when Funen County became part of the Region of Southern ___MASK66___ . Odense has close associations with Hans Christian Andersen who is remembered above all for his fairy tales . He was born in the city in 1805 and spent his childhood years there . ___MASK60___ (, ); ) is the capital and ___MASK84___ populated city of ___MASK66___ . It has a municipal population of 591 , 481 and a larger urban population of 1 , 280 , 371 . The ___MASK60___ metropolitan area has just over 2 million inhabitants . The city is situated on the eastern coast of the island of Zealand ; another small portion of the city is located on Amager , and is separated from ___MASK83___ , Sweden , by the strait of Øresund . The Øresund Bridge connects the two cities by rail and road . The Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order ___MASK99___ ___MASK25___ ___MASK99___ Jerusalem ___MASK99___ Rhodes and ___MASK99___ Malta , also known as the Sovereign Military Order ___MASK99___ Malta ( SMOM ) or Order ___MASK99___ Malta , is a Roman Catholic lay religious order traditionally ___MASK99___ military , chivalrous and noble nature . It was founded as the Knights Hospitaller circa 1099 in Jerusalem , Kingdom ___MASK99___ Jerusalem , by the Blessed Gerard , making it the world ' s oldest surviving chivalric order . Headquartered in Palazzo Malta in Rome , widely considered a sovereign subject ___MASK99___ international law , its mission is summed up in its motto : " Tuitio fidei et obsequium pauperum ", " Defence ___MASK99___ the ( Catholic ) faith and assistance to the poor ". ___MASK15___ (; Norwegian : ( Bokmål ) or ( Nynorsk ); Sami : " Norgga "), officially the Kingdom ___MASK99___ ___MASK15___ , is a sovereign and unitary monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion ___MASK99___ the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the island ___MASK92___ and the archipelago ___MASK99___ Svalbard . The Antarctic Peter I Island and the sub - Antarctic Bouvet Island are dependent territories and thus not considered part ___MASK99___ the Kingdom . ___MASK15___ also lays claim to a section ___MASK99___ Antarctica known as Queen Maud Land . Until 1814 , the Kingdom included the Faroe Islands ( since 1035 ), Greenland ( 1261 ), and Iceland ( 1262 ). It also included Shetland and Orkney until 1468 . It also included the following provinces , now in Sweden : Jämtland , Härjedalen and Bohuslän . Zealand is the largest ( 7 , 031 km ) and ___MASK84___ populated island in ___MASK66___ with a population of 2 , 267 , 659 ( 39 % of ___MASK66___ ' s total as of January 2016 ). ___MASK66___ is a Scandinavian country in Europe . The southernmost and smallest of the Nordic countries , it is south - west of Sweden and south of Norway , and bordered to the south by Germany . The Kingdom of ___MASK66___ is the sovereign state that comprises ___MASK66___ proper and two autonomous constituent countries in the North Atlantic Ocean : the Faroe Islands and Greenland . ___MASK66___ has a total area of , and a population of 5 . 7 million . The country consists of a peninsula , Jutland , and an archipelago of 443 named islands , with the largest being Zealand and Funen . The islands are characterised by flat , arable land and sandy coasts , low elevation and a temperate climate . The Latin Kingdom ___MASK99___ Jerusalem was a crusader state established in the Southern Levant in 1099 after the First Crusade . The kingdom lasted nearly two hundred years , from 1099 until 1291 when the last remaining possession , ___MASK8___ , was destroyed by the Mamluks , but its history is divided into two distinct periods . The sometimes so - called First Kingdom ___MASK99___ Jerusalem lasted from 1099 to 1187 , when it was almost entirely overrun by Saladin . After the subsequent Third Crusade , the kingdom was ___MASK63___ - established in ___MASK8___ in 1192 , and lasted until that city ' s destruction in 1291 . This second kingdom is sometimes called the Second Kingdom ___MASK99___ Jerusalem or the Kingdom ___MASK99___ ___MASK8___ , after its new capital . The ___MASK35___ ( Irish : " Na Scigirí ") are an archipelago between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic approximately halfway between Norway and Iceland , north - ___MASK14___ of mainland Scotland . The area is approximately with a 2016 population of 49 , 188 . The islands are an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark . ___MASK30___ , officially the Federal Republic of ___MASK30___ , is a federal parliamentary republic in central - western Europe . It includes 16 constituent states , covers an area of , and has a largely temperate seasonal climate . With about 82 million inhabitants , ___MASK30___ is the ___MASK84___ populous member state of the ___MASK87___ . After the United States , it is the second ___MASK84___ popular immigration destination in the world . ___MASK30___ ' s capital and largest metropolis is Berlin . Other major cities include Hamburg , Munich , Cologne , Frankfurt , Stuttgart and Düsseldorf . Borders are geographic boundaries ___MASK99___ political entities or legal jurisdictions , such as governments , sovereign states , federated states , and other subnational entities . Some borders  such as a state ' s internal administrative border , or inter - state borders within the ___MASK48___ Area  are often open and completely unguarded . Other borders are partially or fully controlled , and may be crossed legally only at designated border checkpoints and border zones may be controlled . Mostly contentious , borders may even foster the setting up ___MASK99___ buffer zones . A difference has also been established in academic scholarship between border and frontier , the latter denoting a state ___MASK99___ mind rather than state boundaries . ___MASK52___ is a historical and cultural region in ___MASK26___ ___MASK74___ characterized by a common ethnocultural North Germanic heritage and mutually intelligible North Germanic languages . ___MASK98___ , officially the Kingdom ___MASK99___ ___MASK98___ ( Swedish : ), is a Scandinavian country in ___MASK26___ ___MASK74___ . It borders Norway to the ___MASK71___ and Finland to the ___MASK43___ , and is connected to ___MASK66___ in the ___MASK82___ by a bridge - tunnel across the Öresund . At , ___MASK98___ is the third - largest country in the ___MASK87___ by area , with a total population ___MASK99___ 10 . 0 million . ___MASK98___ consequently has a low population density ___MASK99___ , with the highest concentration in the southern half ___MASK99___ the country . Approximately 85 % ___MASK99___ the population lives in urban areas . Region ___MASK99___ Southern ___MASK66___ is an administrative region ___MASK99___ ___MASK66___ established on Monday 1 January 2007 as part ___MASK99___ the 2007 Danish Municipal Reform , which replaced the traditional counties (" amter ") with five larger regions . At the same ___MASK88___ , smaller municipalities were merged into larger units , cutting the number ___MASK99___ municipalities from 271 before 1 January 2006 to 98 . The reform was implemented in ___MASK66___ on 1 January 2007 , although the merger ___MASK99___ the Funish municipalities ___MASK99___ Ærøskøbing and Marstal , being a part ___MASK99___ the reform , was given the go - ahead to be implemented on Sunday 1 January 2006 , one year before the main reform . An archipelago , sometimes called an island group or island chain , is a chain , cluster or collection ___MASK99___ islands . The word " archipelago " is derived from the Greek "  -  arkhi -" (" chief ") and "   pélagos " (" sea ") through the Italian " arcipelago ". In Italian , possibly following a tradition ___MASK99___ antiquity , the Archipelago ( from medieval Greek "*  " and Latin " archipelagus ") was the proper name for the Aegean Sea and , later , usage shifted to refer to the Aegean Islands ( since the sea is remarkable for its large number ___MASK99___ islands ). It is now used to refer to any island group or , sometimes , to a sea containing a small number ___MASK99___ scattered islands . Hans Christian Andersen ( often referred to in ___MASK52___ as H . C . Andersen ; ( 2 April 1805  4 August 1875 ) was a Danish author . Although a prolific writer ___MASK99___ plays , travelogues , novels , and poems , Andersen is best remembered for his fairy tales . Andersen ' s popularity is not limited to children ; his stories , called in Danish , express themes that transcend age and nationality . Odense County is a former province in ___MASK66___ , located on the northern half of the island of Funen in central ___MASK66___ . Odense County was established in 1806 and abolished in 1970 when it merged with Svendborg County forming the new Funen County . ___MASK6___ is a town on the island ___MASK99___ Funen in south - central ___MASK66___ , and the seat ___MASK99___ ___MASK6___ Municipality . With a population ___MASK99___ 26 , 672 ( 1 January 2014 ), ___MASK6___ is Funen ' s second largest city . In 2000 ___MASK6___ was declared " Town ___MASK99___ the year " in ___MASK66___ , and in 2003 it celebrated its 750th anniversary as a market town . By ___MASK37___ , ___MASK6___ is located ___MASK82___ ___MASK99___ Copenhagen , south ___MASK99___ Aarhus , south ___MASK99___ Odense , and east ___MASK99___ Faaborg . Arable land ( from Latin " arabilis ", " able to be plowed ") is , according to one definition , land " capable " ___MASK99___ being ploughed and used to grow crops . In Britain , it was traditionally contrasted with pasturable lands such as heaths which could be used for sheep - rearing but not farmland . ___MASK28___ , is a city located on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea . One ___MASK99___ the oldest cities in the world , ___MASK28___ was named as "" Urusalima "" on ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets , probably meaning " City ___MASK99___ Shalem " after a Canaanite deity , during the early Canaanite period ( approximately 2400 BCE ). During the Israelite period , significant construction activity in ___MASK28___ began in the 9th century BCE ( Iron Age II ), and in the 8th century the city developed into the religious and administrative ___MASK33___ ___MASK99___ the Kingdom ___MASK99___ Judah . It is considered a holy city in the three major Abrahamic religions ___MASK99___ Judaism , Christianity and Islam . The Order ___MASK99___ Knights ___MASK99___ the Hospital ___MASK99___ ___MASK25___ ___MASK99___ Jerusalem , also known as the Order ___MASK99___ ___MASK25___ , Order ___MASK99___ Hospitallers , Knights Hospitaller , or Hospitallers , is the medieval Catholic military order that continued into the contemporary Sovereign Military Order ___MASK99___ Malta , which remains a sovereign subject ___MASK99___ international law . It was headquartered variously in the Kingdom ___MASK99___ Jerusalem , Rhodes and Malta , until it became known by its current name . Saint Hans Church , also St John ' s Church , is a church in Odense , ___MASK66___ . First mentioned in 1295 , it was built by the Knights Hospitaller , also known as the Order of ___MASK25___ . Not much of the original building remains as it was rebuilt in 1636 and subsequently restored on two occasions . Built of red brick with horizontal decorations on the chancel wall , it has large Gothic windows . The date of 1496 on one of the bells in the step - ribbed tower may well be the year the church was completed . The tower is adjacent to Odense Palace which was originally built as a monastery . The church has a three manual Marcussen organ used by Kevin Bowyer to record the complete organ works of Bach for Nimbus Records . ___MASK38___ is an autonomous constituent country within the Danish Realm between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans , ___MASK43___ of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago . Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America , ___MASK38___ has been politically and culturally associated with Europe ( specifically Norway and ___MASK66___ , the colonial powers , as well as the nearby island of Iceland ) for more than a millennium . The majority of its residents are Inuit , whose ancestors migrated began migrating from the Canadian mainland in the 13th century , gradually settling across the island . ___MASK18___ , officially known as the Republic of ___MASK18___ , is a Southern European island country consisting of an archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea . It lies south of Italy , east of Tunisia , and north of Libya . The country covers just over , with a population of just under 450 , 000 , making it one of the world ' s smallest and ___MASK84___ densely populated countries . The capital of ___MASK18___ is Valletta , which at 0 . 8 km , is the smallest national capital in the ___MASK87___ . ___MASK18___ has two official languages : Maltese and English . International law is the set ___MASK99___ rules generally regarded and accepted as binding in relations between states and between nations . It serves as a framework for the practice ___MASK99___ stable and organized international relations . International law differs from state - based legal systems in that it is primarily applicable to countries rather than to private citizens . National law may become international law when treaties delegate national jurisdiction to supranational tribunals such as the European Court ___MASK99___ Human Rights or the International Criminal Court . Treaties such as the Geneva Conventions may require national law to conform to respective parts . A fairy tale is a type ___MASK99___ short story that typically features folkloric fantasy characters , such as dwarves , elves , fairies , giants , gnomes , goblins , mermaids , trolls , unicorns , or witches , and usually magic or enchantments . Fairy tales may be distinguished from other folk narratives such as legends ( which generally involve belief in the veracity ___MASK99___ the events described ) and explicitly moral tales , including beast fables . The term is mainly used for stories with origins in European tradition and , at least in recent centuries , mostly relates to children ' s literature . Area is the quantity that expresses the extent ___MASK99___ a two - dimensional figure or shape , or planar lamina , in the plane . Surface area is its analog on the two - dimensional surface ___MASK99___ a three - dimensional object . Area can be understood as the amount ___MASK99___ material with a given thickness that would be necessary to fashion a model ___MASK99___ the shape , or the amount ___MASK99___ paint necessary to cover the surface with a single coat . It is the two - dimensional analog ___MASK99___ the length ___MASK99___ a curve ( a one - dimensional concept ) or the volume ___MASK99___ a solid ( a three - dimensional concept ). ___MASK74___ is a continent that comprises the westernmost part of Eurasia . ___MASK74___ is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north , the Atlantic Ocean to the ___MASK71___ , and the Mediterranean Sea to the south . To the ___MASK43___ and southeast , ___MASK74___ is generally considered as separated from Asia by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains , the Ural River , the Caspian and Black Seas , and the waterways of the Turkish Straits . Yet the non - oceanic borders of ___MASK74___  a concept dating back to classical antiquity  are arbitrary . The primarily physiographic term " continent " as applied to ___MASK74___ also incorporates cultural and political elements whose discontinuities are not always reflected by the continent ' s current overland boundaries .