Hedeby
Ancient city · Germany
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 54.491, 9.565
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Based on the object's type in Wikidata.
History
Hedeby was an important Danish Viking Age trading settlement near the southern end of the Jutland Peninsula, now in the Schleswig-Flensburg district of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Around 965, chronicler Ibrahim ibn Yaqub visited Hedeby and described it as "a very large city at the very end of the world's ocean."