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Ribe
Ribe is a town in south-west Jutland, regarded as the oldest town in Denmark. It began as a trading place in the early eighth century, linked to Frisia and the North Sea trade, and Ansgar built one of the first churches in Scandinavia there around 860. It became a bishopric, and its Romanesque cathedral dates from the twelfth century. It declined after the Middle Ages.
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