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europäische kulturelle Bewegung des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts

A Danish officer of Mecklenburg background whose mid-eighteenth-century proposals helped advance attempts to cultivate the heathlands of Jutland.

King of Denmark and Norway from 1746 to 1766, whose government promoted the cultivation and settlement of Jutland’s heathlands.

Staat in Nordeuropa und Nordamerika

The Danish peninsula containing the heathlands targeted for cultivation and settlement.

A major heathland area in central Jutland associated with eighteenth-century Danish land-improvement and settlement efforts.