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One of the animals found here is the polar bear, which is on the coat of arms of the Danish royal family in Greenland. The history of Greenland is a history of life under extreme Arctic conditions: currently, an ice sheet covers about eighty percent of the island, restricting human activity largely to the coasts.
The dependencies of Greenland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands, however, remained part of the reorganised Kingdom of Denmark. Unlike Iceland, which was recognised as a sovereign monarchy united with Denmark under the same monarch in 1918, Greenland has remained a Danish dependency, currently under the reigning monarch Frederik X of Denmark.
There is one university, the University of Greenland (Greenlandic: Ilisimatusarfik) in Nuuk. Many Greenlanders attend universities in Denmark or elsewhere. The public school system in Greenland is, as in Denmark, under the jurisdiction of the municipalities: they are therefore municipal schools.
The commission's work submitted its final report in June 1978 with proposals for a Home Rule Act. [14] In 1979, the Danish government granted Greenland home rule, with Denmark keeping control of a number of areas including foreign relations, defense, currency matters, and the legal system in Greenland. [15] [16]
As a reaction towards the strongly voiced criticism over the Danish dominance, a Home-Rule Committee consisting of only Greenlandic members was set up in 1973 with the mission to propose preliminary guidelines for a possible system of home rule for Greenland. The concrete formulation of a home rule system was subsequently addressed by a Danish ...
In 1953 Greenland's colonial status ended with the establishment of the 1953 Danish constitution. [1] When the colonial status ended, Greenland was incorporated into the Danish Realm as an amt, which gave Greenlanders Danish citizenship. As a result, Danish policies toward Greenland changed to a strategy of cultural assimilation. During this ...
A lawmaker representing Greenland in Denmark’s Parliament was asked to leave the podium of the assembly after she refused to translate her speech delivered in Greenlandic — the Inuit language ...
Greenland, which had been settled by the Norsemen in the 980s, [1] submitted to Norwegian rule in 1261. [2] Denmark and Sweden entered the Kalmar Union with Norway in 1397 under the Queen of Norway, and Norway's overseas territories including Greenland later became subject to the king in Copenhagen. [3]