JutlandArticle Free Pass Jutland, Danish Jylland, projection of
northern Europe forming the continental portion of Denmark. The
peninsula is bounded to the west and north by the North Sea and
the Skagerrak and to the east by the Kattegat and the Little
Belt. The Chersonesus Cimbrica, or Cimbric Chersonese, of
ancient geography, it was subsequently named for the Jutes (a
Germanic people) and includes, in its larger sense, the German
state of Schleswig-Holstein. Politically, as the result of the
Treaty of Versailles of 1919, Jutland ends southward at
Flensburg (Flensborg) Fjord and includes the islands north of
the Limfjorden. Area 11,496 square miles (29,775 square km).
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