Small belt
The Petit Belt ( Lillebælt in Danish) is a Détroit located at the Denmark between the Péninsule of the Jutland and the island of Fyn.
Geography
The Petit Belt is stretched on a north-western/south-eastern axis by connecting the Kattegat to the the Baltic.This strait has a length of approximately 50 kilometers for a width varying from 800 meters to 28 kilometers. Its depth is of 75 meters roughly.
History
The January 30th 1658 the king of Sweden Charles X Gustave, come from Poland with an army of 9.000 riders and 3.000 infantrymen, crossed to foot Small Belt then taken by the winter ices. Arrived in Fyn, it put at bag Odense, then undertook to cross the Grand Belt. Having approached the Sjælland on February 11th, he threatened Copenhagen directly. Taken with deprived, the king of Denmark-Norway Frederic III was forced to sign the Traité of Roskilde because which the formerly Danish provinces of Scanie, Halland and Blekinge, as well as the province then Norwegian of the Bohuslän, belong today to the Sweden.
Transport
The Petit Belt is crossed by two bridges, the old bridge of Small Belt, going back to 1935 and the new bridge of Small Belt, of 1970.
Islands
Many islands are in the strait of Small Belt, like (of north in the south):
See too
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