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5 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇩🇰 Denmark · Ancient city
Roman Iron Age → Migration 200–700 (Funen central place peak 300–500) · Funen Iron Age (Fyn central place; pre-Danish Gutar, ‘god's home’ sanctuary)
Gudme (Gudmehjem ‘God's Home’, Gudme–Lundeborg) — Iron Age central-place and beach market (Roman Iron Age 200–500 → Vendel 500–700, peak 300–500 Gundestrup?
🇩🇰 Denmark · Ancient city
Migration → Viking Age 550–1100 (Zealand central place Tyr's Lake 600–700) · Zealand Viking Age (Tyr's Lake Tyr sanctuary) — Zealand central place (Fugledegård)
Tissø (Lake Tissø–Fugledegård) — Zealand Viking Age lake central-place (c.550–1100, hall 550–700 peak) on western Zealand lake Tissø island and Fugledegård shore peninsula 12 km southeast Kalundborg.
🇩🇰 Denmark · Ancient city
Roman Iron Age → Vendel–Viking 200–1100 (Bornholm central place) · Bornholm Iron Age (Burgundians? Bornholm island central place, guldgubbar sanctuary)
Sorte Muld (Black Soil) — Iron Age central-place and sanctuary (Late Roman 200–400 → Viking Age 400–1100, peak Vendel 600–800) on Bornholm plateau 2 km south Svaneke, eastern Bornholm's richest site.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Ancient city
Scandinavian Iron Age 100 BCE–1000 CE (Roman → Viking) · South Scandinavian Iron Age (Scania central place; proto-Danish)
Uppåkra — South Scandinavian Iron Age central place (c.100 BCE–1000 CE, 40 ha, 1,000-year continuity) 5 km south Lund, Scania's pre-urban precursor.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Ancient city
Late Pre-Roman Iron Age to Viking Age (c.100 BCE–1000 CE) · South Scandinavian Iron Age
Continuously occupied central place in Scania from c.100 BCE to 1000 CE, with a heathen temple building (200–950 CE, four-post staved cult house with beaker and gold foil figures), hall sequence and…
