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Varde is a Danish town in southwestern Jutland approximately north of the Danish port town of Esbjerg. The city is home to 13.771 inhabitants (2015) and is the primary city in the municipality also named Varde, which is part of Region Syddanmark, the Southern part of Jutland plus the island of Funen. The municipality has decided to put greater focus on the fact, that Varde is located in an area with versatile nature and possibilities linked to this. Because of this the motto of Varde "Varde, town of commerce" is being challenged by the new common motto "We in nature". The town is located by Varde stream/river and has a town center shape by an old market town environment. This makes it a popular and well visited vacation- and tourist destination, as it is also a short distance away from the beaches by the North Sea. Vardes age is not known precisely, but Varde is mentioned in written sources from 1107, and is therefore thought have been founded sometime in the early Middle Ages. Early on the name of Varde is presented in 2 different versions "Warwath" and "Warwik." War is identical in both and is believed to mean grassland, maybe beach or in other ways uncultivated area. The suffixes "wath" and "wick" are believed to mean respectively ford and inlet. The differing versions of the name occur quite naturally, depending on where you are located "on ground" or "on water". As with other older Danish towns, Varde is located, where the countryside in different ways favors human settlement and other human activity. The town was founded near a stream allowing a convenient port for ships near a place, where north and south bound traffic by land had an important ford/crossing, which was later replaced with a bridge. == The history of Varde == Varde was from olden times protected against sudden attacks from outsiders, partly because of its distance from the shore and partly because of its neighbourship with the built royal castle/fortress/fort/estate (Vardehus). Vardehus was the administrative center of the district and from this base of power a royal official governed the shire of Varde a sizeable area corresponding to the former Ribe Amt. On the greater scale Varde has never been a big town, but the fact that Varde already in the early Middle Ages had 2 churches, means that it had some status. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Varde」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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