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Schleswig-Holstein is the northern most German state and part of the Jutland or Cimbrian peninsula with the rest of it taken up by Danish Jutland. Danish flags are not uncommon as the land was both German and Danish, the question has much to do with how the King of Denmark<ref> Since the middle ages, the Danish royal house is a branch of the German house of Oldenburg or Schleswig-Holstein, other branches of which ruled in the duchy of Oldenburg and, since Peter III, in Russia. [[The House of Windsor]] will technically be part of this House upon the death of Elizabeth II, as her late husband, Prince Philip, iswas a member, and [[Lineage Comes From the Father|house membership passes through the male line]]; however, nobody except royalty nerds really care.</ref> was also the Duke of Schleswig and Holstein and had a seat in the old [[Holy Roman Empire]] as the latter. In the late middle ages the city Lübeck (then a free city) was the second largest city in Germany and later the capital of the [[Hanseatic League]] that controlled most trade on the Baltic Sea. Even today, Schleswig-Holstein has many cultural similarities with neighboring Denmark and Sweden, arguably even much more than with other German states like Bavaria or Saxony. This however is partly due to the considerable cultural influence of Germany and Northern Germany in particular on Scandinavia. Transport is a major function of the area. A canal goes between the Baltic and North Sea saving hundreds of miles going around Jutland.