Aalborg

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Aalborg is a city in Denmark. About 143,000 people live there (2021), which makes it the fourth largest city in Denmark.

Aalborg was founded around 700 A.D. and was heard about for the first time in the year 1040. It was a proper city in 1342 and became the seat of a Lutheran bishop in 1554.

Aalborg is in Northern Jutland, near the Limfjord.

Aalborg Media

• Aalborg - Lindholm Høje 10 ies.jpg

  Lindholm Høje, Aalborg, Denmark

• Hardeknud mynt Alabu.jpg

  Hardeknud coin embossed Alabu (c. 1040), the original name of Aalborg

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  Execution of the rebel Skipper Clement in Viborg, 1536 (engraving by an unknown author, 1574)

• Aalborg in the 1830s: painting of the old watermill by wine merchant Bock showing the mill pond fed from the Østerå

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  German soldiers in conflict with Aalborg citizens (August 1943)

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  Aalborg Waterfront as seen at sunset (2020).

• Limfjorden as seen during a sunny autumn day (2019).

• Aalborg 2010 - 125 ubt.JPG

  View of Aalborg and the Limfjord from the west

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  Map showing location (as Ålborg) in Denmark

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  Large bird flock, seen northeast of the Danish isle Egholm