Jutland Peninsula

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Geographical location

The Cimbrian peninsula or Cimbric Peninsula (Lat. Chersonesus cimbrica, Danish kimbriske halvø ), also Jutland peninsula, is the peninsula between the Baltic and North Sea, in from the Elbe estuary in the south over a length of about 450 km to Grenen in Vendsyssel extends north. It includes Jutland (Danish: Jylland ), the continental part of Denmark, the majority of the German state of Schleswig -Holstein and the north of the Elbe located part of Hamburg.

Conceptual history

The term " Cimbrian peninsula " is older than " Jutland " and known since antiquity. They found, for example in Ptolemy's writing Geographike Hyphegesis, chap. II.X as Κιμβρική Χερσόνησος ( kimbrikè Chersonesos ). It is derived from the since the end of the 2nd century BC, known Germanic people of the Cimbri. Whether this actually populated the peninsula or the nearby Elbe estuary is not to say because of the meager ancient source location with certainty. However, they be located by all ancient sources on the Cimbrian peninsula.

Distinction between

The southern boundary of the Danish influence area in Jutland / Schleswig was fought over for centuries and subject to many changes. Depending on making policy objectives and options could vary according to the use of the term " Jutland ".

Geography

The floor level of the peninsula is mostly not 50 meters above the sea level and reaches only a few places more than 100 meters. Particularly low is the West Coast as part of the reduction coast of the German Bight. In the southern part of the Elbe estuary to the Danish port of Esbjerg, the original dune line is broken into early historic times. North of Blåvandshuk it is intact, but even here there are landward of the dune beach lakes and lagoons. The east coast is richly structured by fjords. Both forms are called in Danish waters " fjords ". The eastern ridge of the peninsula is the Little Belt to the Kattegat an undulating glacial moraine landscape with several glacial valleys.

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