Southern Jutland
Southern Jutland or Southshore Jutland, the Danish name for the former Duchy of Schleswig.
History
Jutland was (north of the Königsau ) (south of the Königsau ) divided and southern part of the country, who had both their own country Stinge the early middle ages in a northern. Southshore Jutland consisted of the three Sysseln Barved, Ellum and Idstedt, his Thingstätte was in Urnehoved at Bjolderup.
Parallel to the name Süder Jutland came in the 10th century version of Schleswig: They found, for example in the naming of the area between the Schlei and Eider Mark Schleswig, which was 934-1025 part of the duchy of Saxony and 962-1025 under the emperors Otto I, Otto II, Otto III. , Henry II and Conrad II formed the northern borderland of the Holy Roman Empire. In the 12th century the last Jarl Knud Lavard took the title of duke ( dux Jucie ) to.
Until 1500, the terms of Schleswig and Southshore Jutland were needed around five hundred years synonymous in German and Danish, but the duchy was named since the reign of Schauenburger Dukes end of the 14th century, mainly to the capital city of Schleswig and was in the early modern period, including the more common expression. Only in the course of rising nationalism in the 19th century, the term South Jutland / Southshore Jutland was used by the Danish side again reinforced.
According to the Danish defeat in the German -Danish War and the Peace of Vienna until then Danish fief Schleswig Holstein coincided with the province Schleswig-Holstein to Prussia.
Schleswig or South Jutland was divided in 1920 to two separate referendums in the Danish North and the German Southern Schleswig: the South is a region of Schleswig today with Holstein, the state of Schleswig- Holstein, in northern Schleswig lived in part slightly altered borders the offices Tønder ( dt. : Tønder ), Sønderborg (German: Sonderburg ), Aabenraa (German: Aabenraa ) and Haderslev (German: Hadersleben ) again, which in 1970 merged to form South Jutland office and went up in the new region Syddanmark 2007.
In 1997, the Europe Region South Jutland / Schleswig was established in the region are represented Syddanmark on the German side, the district-free city of Flensburg and the circles Schleswig-Flensburg and North Friesland and on the Danish side the municipalities Aabenraa, Sønderborg, Tønder and Haderslev.
Today, both the German and the Danish side will continue to use the terms parallel each Schleswig or South Jutland, but my usually only a part of the former Duchy. As is usually the Schleswig now German, southern part of the Duchy and as Jutland is the former official, so the North, now the Danish part of the Duchy referred. In principle, both terms describe the same geographical area.