Treaty of Ribe an impossible task of raising 100,000 silver marks to redeem his country. Denmark had effectively been dissolved and the country was left without a king between 1332 and 1340. In 1340, King Valdemar IV of Denmark began a more-than-twenty-year-long struggle to reclaim his father's kingdom. Although eventually succeeding in regaining control of Zealand, Funen, Jutland, and the Scanian lands, he failed to obtain control of Schleswig, whose ducal House of Estridsen managed to continue its virtual independence. To gain influence over the province, Valdemar married Helvig of Schleswig, the only daughter of Duke Eric II of Schleswig. In 1372, he
Andaman and Nicobar Islands Chinese oil supply. Internet access on the islands is limited and unreliable, since all connectivity to the outside world must go through satellite links. Bharat Broadband Network is building a fibre optic submarine cable running from five of the islands to Chennai, with completion expected in December 2019. The initial bandwidth will be 400 Gbit/s, roughly 400 times more than what the islands currently possess. The Sisters are small uninhabited islands in the Andaman Archipelago, at the northern side of the Duncan Passage, about southeast of Passage Island and north of North Brother: East Sister Island and West Sister Island.