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Avedøre Holme
Avedøre is a south-western suburb of Copenhagen located in Hvidovre Municipality. Description The city is mostly made up of concrete blocks and row-housing, but some people residing in Avedøre live in detached single-family houses with gardens. One major high-rise block called "Store Hus" (lit. English: Grand House) dominates the suburb's skyline. The city has a relatively high rate of crime and many inhabitants are unemployed . Approximately 16,000 persons live in Avedøre, and approx. 60% of the inhabitants is either immigrant or born by immigrants, mainly from Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon, Spain and Turkey. History Prior to 1 April 1974, Avedøre was an exclave of Glostrup Municipality. On that date, Avedøre was combined with neighboring Hvidovre Municipality. Transport Avedøre is served by Avedøre railway station, located on the Køge radial of Copenhagen's S-train network. The station is served regularly by trains on the A-line which have a journey time to central Cop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avedøre Railway Station
Avedøre station is a suburban rail railway station serving the suburb of Avedøre southwest of Copenhagen, Denmark. Avedøre station is located on the Køge radial of Copenhagen's S-train network, a hybrid suburban rail and rapid transit system serving Greater Copenhagen. The station is served regularly by trains on the A-line which have a journey time to central Copenhagen of around 15 minutes. History The station opened on 1 October 1972 as the first section of the Køge Bay Line from Copenhagen to was completed. See also * List of Copenhagen S-train stations * List of railway stations in Denmark * Rail transport in Denmark * Transport in Copenhagen * Transport in Denmark References External links * Banedanmark– government agency responsible for maintenance and traffic control of most of the Danish railway network DSB– the Danish national train operating company Danske Jernbaner– website with information on railway history The history of rail transp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brøndby Strand
Brøndby Strand (in English: 'Well Town' Beach) is a suburb in Brøndby Municipality, approximately south-west of central Copenhagen, Denmark Overview Brøndby Strand contains a large housing project, in which 8,000 of the suburb's 11,000 inhabitants live. The area is known for having various social problems: many of the inhabitants are unemployed. Of the total population, 60% are immigrants or Denmark, Danes with immigrant parents, most of whom live in the housing projects. It contains about a dozen high-rise residential estates of a big multicultural mix, and is home to a number of successful hip hop and urban rap artists of national and international stature. The suburb is connected with the S-train. Notable people Music * Majid (rapper), Majid (born 1975) a Danish rapper of Moroccan-Berber origin * Burhan Genç Koç (born 1983) known as Burhan G, a Danish R&B and pop singer, songwriter and producer [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Majid (rapper)
Outlandish is a hip-hop music group based in Denmark. Formed in 1997, it currently consists of and . Career Their first formation consists of Isam Bachiri, , and . All three members are religious, with Isam and Waqas being Muslims (of Moroccan and Pakistani origins, respectively) and Lenny being Roman Catholic Church, Catholic of Cuban and Honduras, Honduran descent. Their first single "Pacific to Pacific" was used in connection with an Amnesty International charity event. Next came the single "Saturday Night", a song that was later included on the soundtrack for the Danish film ''Pizza King''. The lyrics of their song "Look Into My Eyes" are based on a poem by Gihad Ali, a Palestinian who wrote the piece when she was a teenager; the poem expresses the plight of those suffering from America's foreign policy with regards to Israel and Palestine. The video is based around the fairy-tale Little Red Riding Hood. It portrays an Israeli soldier as the Wolf and the Palestinian people, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DSB (railway Company)
DSB, an abbreviation of ''Danske Statsbaner'' (, ''Danish State Railways''), is the largest Danish train operating company. It's also the largest train operating company in Scandinavia. While DSB is responsible for passenger train operation on most of the Danish railways, goods transport and railway maintenance are outside its scope. DSB runs a commuter rail system, called the S-train, in the area around the Danish capital, Copenhagen, that connects the different areas and suburbs in the greater metropolitan area. Between 2010 and 2017, DSB operated trains in Sweden. DSB was founded in 1885, when the state-owned companies ''De jysk-fynske Statsbaner'' and ''De sjællandske Statsbaner'' merged. DSB was established in 1885, after the state in 1867 under the name De Jutland-Fynske Statsbaner took over the private company Det Danske Jernbanedriftselskab and in 1880 they also took over the privately owned Zealand Railway Company. History The first railways in Denmark were built a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A (S-train)
A is a service on the S-train network in Copenhagen Copenhagen ( ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the Urban area of Copenhagen, urban area. The city is situated on the islands of Zealand and Amager, separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the .... It is one of the base services on the network, running every 20 minutes from about 5:00 to 0:30 every day, and every 10 minutes from about 6:15 to 19:00. It runs between Hundige and Hillerød, serving all stations on the inner part of the Køge radial. During daytime on weekdays, every second train continues from Hundige station to Solrød Strand station. On Friday and Saturday nights there is also a 30 minutes service throughout the night. History Since the first part of the Køge radial opened in 1972, letter A has been used for the principal service on its inner part. Before that time the most constant characteristic of service A was that it ran on the Klampenborg radia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Copenhagen S-train
The Copenhagen S-train (), the S-train of Copenhagen, Denmark, is a key part of public transport in the city. It is a hybrid urban rail, urban-suburban rail serving most of the Copenhagen urban area, and is analogous to the S-Bahn systems of Berlin S-Bahn, Berlin, Vienna S-Bahn, Vienna and Hamburg S-Bahn, Hamburg. The trains connect the Copenhagen inner city with Hillerød, Klampenborg, Frederikssund, Farum, Høje-Taastrup and Køge. There are of double track with List of Copenhagen S-train stations, 87 S-train stations, of which eight are in neighbouring towns outside greater Copenhagen. The S-train is run by Danske Statsbaner, DSB S-tog A/S while Banedanmark owns the tracks and signals. Rail services are operated by "Fourth Generation" S-trains divided into 104 8-car train sets (Class SA) and 31 4-car train sets (Class SE). The system operates in tandem with the separately owned Copenhagen Metro which operates in the city centre, Frederiksberg and Amager. The two systems carr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Copenhagen
Copenhagen ( ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the Urban area of Copenhagen, urban area. The city is situated on the islands of Zealand and Amager, separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the Øresund strait. The Øresund Bridge connects the two cities by rail and road. Originally a Vikings, Viking fishing village established in the 10th century in the vicinity of what is now Gammel Strand, Copenhagen became the capital of Denmark in the early 15th century. During the 16th century, the city served as the ''de facto'' capital of the Kalmar Union and the seat of the Union's monarchy, which governed most of the modern-day Nordic countries, Nordic region as part of a Danish confederation with Sweden and Norway. The city flourished as the cultural and economic centre of Scandinavia during the Renaissance. By the 17th century, it had become a regional centre of power, serving as the heart of the Danish government and Military history ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glostrup Municipality
Glostrup Municipality () is a suburban municipality ( Danish '' kommune'') and town in Region Hovedstaden on the island of Zealand (''Sjælland'') approx. 10 km west of Copenhagen in eastern Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 13.31 km2, and has a total population of 24,869 (2025).BY2: Population 1. January by municipalities The Mobile Statbank from Its Zip code (''Postnummer'') is 2600. Its mayor as of 2022 is Kasper Damsgaard, a member of the Social Democrats (''Socialdemokratiet'') . The mun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
