Hedeby
Hedeby was an important Danish Viking Age trading settlement near the southern end of the Jutland Peninsula, now in the Schleswig-Flensburg district of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Destroyed locality
- Description: historic fortified Viking town south of present-day Schleswig town in North Germany
- Also known as: “Haithabu”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Viking Museum Haithabu and Hedeby stones.
Viking Museum Haithabu
Museum
Photo: Snoopy1964, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Hedeby Viking Museum is a museum near the site of Hedeby, a former medieval city in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany focusing on the Viking Age history of the region.
Hedeby stones
Runestone
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Hedeby stones are four runestones from the 10th century found at the town of Hedeby in Northern Germany. This area was part of Denmark during the Viking Age.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Busdorf and Selk.
Busdorf
Village
Busdorf is a municipality in the district of Schleswig-Flensburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The municipality cooperates with neighboring municipalities in the Haddeby municipal community.
Selk
Village
Selk is a municipality in the district of Schleswig-Flensburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Fahrdorf
Village
Fahrdorf is a municipality in the district of Schleswig-Flensburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Fahrdorf lies at the Bundesstraße 76 between the cities of Schleswig and Eckernförde.
Hedeby
- Categories: archaeological site and ancient city
- Location: Busdorf, Schleswig-Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Hedeby” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Haddeby”
- Afrikaans: “Haithabu”
- Afrikaans: “Hedeby”
- Arabic: “هيديبي”
- Belarusian: “Хедэбю”
- Catalan: “Hedeby”
- Chinese: “海泽比”
- Croatian: “Hedeby”
- Czech: “Haithabu”
- Czech: “Hedeby”
- Danish: “Haddeby”
- Danish: “Haithabu”
- Danish: “Hedeby”
- Dutch: “Haithabu”
- Dutch: “Hedeby”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هيديبى”
- Esperanto: “Haithabu”
- Estonian: “Haithabu”
- Estonian: “Hedeby”
- Finnish: “Hedeby”
- French: “Hedeby”
- Georgian: “ჰედებიუ”
- German: “Haitabu”
- German: “Haithabu”
- German: “Hedeby”
- German: “Heidiba”
- German: “Heithabu”
- German: “Schlacht von Haithabu”
- Greek: “Χέδεπι”
- Hebrew: “הדבי”
- Hungarian: “Haithabu”
- Hungarian: “Hedeby”
- Icelandic: “Heiðabær”
- Italian: “Haithabu”
- Italian: “Hedeby”
- Japanese: “ハイタブ”
- Japanese: “ヘーゼビュー”
- Latin: “Heidiba”
- Latvian: “Hedebija”
- Maltese: “Haithabu”
- Maltese: “Hedeby”
- Maori: “Hedeby”
- Northern Frisian: “Haithabu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hedeby”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hedeby”
- Norwegian: “Hedeby”
- Persian: “هدیبی”
- Polish: “Hedeby”
- Portuguese: “Hedeby”
- Russian: “Гаддеби”
- Russian: “Слисторп”
- Russian: “Хедебю”
- Russian: “Хэдебю”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hedeby”
- Slovenian: “Hedeby”
- Spanish: “Haithabu”
- Spanish: “Hedeby”
- Swedish: “Haddeby”
- Swedish: “Haithabu”
- Swedish: “Hedeby”
- Tatar: “Хедебю”
- Turkish: “Hedeby”
- Ukrainian: “Слісторп”
- Ukrainian: “Хайтабу”
- Ukrainian: “Хайтхабу”
- Ukrainian: “Хедебю”
- Vietnamese: “Hedeby”
- Welsh: “Heddeby”
- Welsh: “Hedeby”
- Western Frisian: “Hedeby”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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