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  2. Timeline of Icelandic history - Wikipedia

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    This is a timeline of Icelandic history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Iceland and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see history of Iceland .

  3. History of Iceland - Wikipedia

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    Mid-Atlantic Ridge and adjacent plates. Volcanoes indicated in red.. In geological terms, Iceland is a young island. It started to form in the Miocene era about 20 million years ago from a series of volcanic eruptions on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, where it lies between the North American Plate and Eurasian Plate.

  4. Settlement of Iceland - Wikipedia

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    The oldest known source which mentions the name "Iceland" is an eleventh-century rune carving from Gotland. There is a possible early mention of Iceland in the book De mensura orbis terrae by the Irish monk Dicuil, dating to 825. [9] Dicuil claimed to have met some monks who had lived on the island of Thule. They said that darkness reigned ...

  5. Lists of heads of state of Iceland - Wikipedia

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    Iceland was settled in the late 9th and early 10th centuries, principally by people of Norwegian and other Scandinavian origin. In 930, the ruling chiefs established a republican constitution and an assembly called the Althing—the oldest parliament in the world.

  6. Template:History of Iceland - Wikipedia

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    History of Iceland; Timeline of Icelandic history; Middle ages. Settlement of Iceland. 870–930 . Icelandic Commonwealth. 930–1262 ... Iceland in the Cold War ...

  7. Icelandic independence movement - Wikipedia

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    The Icelandic independence movement (Icelandic: Sjálfstæðisbarátta Íslendinga) was the collective effort made by Icelanders to achieve self-determination and independence from the Kingdom of Denmark throughout the 19th and early 20th century.

  8. List of years in Iceland - Wikipedia

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    List of years in Iceland. 1 language. ... Timeline of Icelandic history This ...

  9. Timeline of Faroese history - Wikipedia

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    This is a timeline of Faroese history comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Iceland and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see history of the Faroe Islands .