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Christian IV



Christian IV (1577–1648), king of Denmark and Norway 1588–1648, longest reigning Danish monarch. He involved Denmark in wars with Sweden (1611–13, 1643–45), and helped Protestants fight Roman Catholics in Germany (1625–29) during the Thirty Years' War. These wars left Denmark bankrupt.



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