Løgting
... official name: Føroya løgting "Løgting of the Faroes") is the parliament of the Faroe Islands ... a certain amount of evidence that the Faroes were already colonised as early as 650 ... part of Tórshavn, the capital of the Faroes. In the Viking Age it was a ... or unusual. Respecting the fact, that the Faroes were explored earlier than Iceland and had ... also described as the assembly of the "Faroes' best men", who were a free ...
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Timeline of the Faroe Islands
... Irish monks begin to settle in the Faroes. They are the first people there. In ... believe, that oat seems cultivated on the Faroes since about 625, for example in Mykines ... is suggested, that they came from the Faroes after banished by the vikings. Diucil refers ... some of the monks stayed in the Faroes. 800s about 825 - Grímur Kamban is said ... be the first Norse settler in the Faroes at the place, which is named ...
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Talk:Faroe Islands
... msg:Europe box on here, when the Faroes aren't listed in that box. What ... exact meaning of a "dependency", but the Faroes are one of te three countries within ... the Danish Kingdom: Denmark, Greenland and the Faroes. Denmark is not the "motherland" of the Faroes, for the Faroese are no Danes, but ... 5% Danish speaking people living in the Faroes, and ofcourse, the Faroese learn Danish ...
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History of the Faroe Islands
... Birds', which some say could be the Faroes with its dense bird population and sheep ... about them, except that they used the Faroes (and Iceland) as a hermitage. As these ... suggests that Grímr Kamban settled in the Faroes some time before. Maybe even hundreds of ... isles. If many men settled in the Faroes in the reign of Harald Hårfagre, people must have known about the Faroes. And therefore someone may have settled ...
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Faroe Islands
... code DKK. The Faroe Islands or simply Faroes (Faroese: Føroyar, meaning "Sheep Islands", Danish: Færøerne ... and Coast Guard) and foreign affairs. The Faroes give their name to one of the ... was detached from Norway in 1815. The Faroes have their own representatives in the Nordic ... double monarchy Denmark–Norway. The reformation reached the Faroes in 1538. When Norway was taken away ... Faroe Islands. On April 12, 1940, the Faroes were occupied by British troops following ...
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Postverk Føroya
... form of the country's name Føroyar (Faroes), thus Føroya without the final r. The name means litteraly "Postwork of the Faroes", while the word for post or mail ... Faroese post: Postverkið (The Postwork) Føroya Postverk (Faroes' Postwork) Postur (Post) FøroyaPostur (FaroePost) PosturFøroya (PostFaroe ... opened. The third post office on the Faroes was opened in Klaksvík on 1st May ... essentially all of the settlements on the Faroes. Most of them were opened in ...
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Talk:Scandinavia
... hand, though below someone said that the Faroes are obviously Scandinavia since they are part ... Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Lappland, the Faroes, the Orkneys, and Gotaland. Pretty broad, but ... about these other areas. Notably Lappland, the Faroes, Gotland, and the Orkneys. Gotaland is a ... 2005 (UTC) The notes concerning Iceland an Faroes At the bottom of the page, as ... apears: "1/ The original settlers of the Faroes and Iceland were of Pictish or ...
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Bibliografie to the Faeroeern   (translated from German)
... Atlantic Studies 1, 1) Anthony Jackson: The Faroes. The Faraway Iceland, Robert resounds, to London ... and policy The moon Fennell: Take the Faroes for example: the of argument for self ... Árni Olafsson: Constitutionalism and Economics into the Faroes, S. 121-140) Culture Rainer H. Schmeissner ... Otmar Werner) Foreign Belletristik Jeremy Lucas: The Faroes Adventure Jonathan Cape, London 1987 (literary final ... Making OF the Basalt plateau OF the Faroes, Mexico 1957 A. Noe Nygaard: The ...
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Talk:Rockall
... to remove the designation "(Den)" from the Faroes for consistency. (Indeed I suspect that there ... too, given the constitutional status of the Faroes.) --Red King 19:37, 22 Apr 2005 ... a designation when other designations (such as Faroes "(Den)") are shown is not neutral, that ... of any of Iceland, Ireland, or the Faroes, then that bit of the text is ... 2005 (UTC) What?? The EEZ of the Faroes and iceland are shown. Jooler 21: ...
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Catholic Church in the Faroe Islands
... 1000 years of Christianity In 1100, the Faroes were elevated to the independent Faroese Diocese ... that the church in Norway - and the Faroes - be reformed. During the Reformation the old ... was closed and all land in the Faroes occupied by the Catholic church (about 40 ... attempt to bring back Catholicism to the Faroes. In 1857, Bavarian priest Georg Bauer arrived ... find many followers. When he left the Faroes in 1880, he had no successor, ...
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