• General elections were held in the Faroe Islands on 8 November 1980. The Union Party emerged as the largest party in the Løgting, winning eight of the...
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  • Parliamentary elections were held in the Faroe Islands on 8 November 1984. They were won by the Social Democratic Party, whose leader Atli Dam became...
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  • General elections were held in the Faroe Islands on 7 November 1978. The Social Democratic Party and the Union Party emerged as the largest parties, each...
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    Løgting (redirect from Faroese Parliament)
    forthcoming election and appoints the day of election, which must take place, at the earliest, six weeks after the proclamation. The Faroese ting or assembly...
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    The Faroese People's Party – Radical Self-Government (Faroese: Hin føroyski fólkaflokkurin – radikalt sjálvstýri) is a pro-Faroese independence conservative...
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    Republic (Faroe Islands) (category CS1 Faroese-language sources (fo))
    Danish parliamentary elections of 2007, the party received 25.4% of the Faroese vote, thereby retaining one of the two Faroese seats in the Danish national...
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  • Social Democratic Party (Faroe Islands) (category CS1 Faroese-language sources (fo))
    members of Faroese trade unions. Its youth organization Sosialistiskt Ungmannafelag (Socialist Youth) was founded in 1965. At the 2004 general election on 20...
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    Union Party (Faroe Islands) (category CS1 Faroese-language sources (fo))
    the Danish parliamentary elections of 2007, the party received 23.5% of the Faroese vote, thereby gaining one of the two Faroese seats in the national legislature...
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  • Sjálvstýri (category CS1 Faroese-language sources (fo))
    through gradually increasing Faroese autonomy until the Faroe Islands becomes a de facto independent state. At the 2008 election to the Løgting, the party...
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    Christian People's Party (Faroe Islands) (category Articles containing Faroese-language text)
    The Christian People's Party, Faroese Progress and Fisheries Party (Faroese: Kristiligi Fólkaflokkurin, Føroya Framburðs- og Fiskivinnuflokkur, KFFFF)...
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    |journal= ignored (help) Jóansson, Tórður (1997). English loanwords in Faroese. Fannir. ISBN 978-99918-49-14-0. Retrieved 22 June 2024. Alfonso-Gregorio...
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    Nordic countries (category Articles containing Faroese-language text)
    bodies. Swedish is a mandatory subject in Finnish schools and Danish in Faroese schools. Danish is also taught in schools in Iceland. The combined area...
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  • secessionist movements Proposals for new Canadian provinces and territories Faroese independence movement Icelandic independence movement Norwegian independence...
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    Þingvellir (category Articles containing Faroese-language text)
    Løgting, the parliament of the Faroe Islands and Tinganes, the site of the Faroese government. Tynwald, the legislature of the Isle of Man. Tynwald shares...
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    Common endonym(s): Føroyar Official endonym(s): Føroyar Adjectival: Faroe, Faroese Demonym(s): Etymology: Name of the Faroe Islands ISO country codes: FO...
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  • director, producer and screenwriter (d. 1968) 1873 – Andrass Samuelsen, Faroese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (d. 1954) 1875 – Joseph...
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    World. Archived from the original on 2019-08-30. Retrieved 2019-08-30. Faroese and Greenlandic are seen as official regional languages in the self-governing...
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    of Danish) and Norwegian Bokmål are classified as West Norse along with Faroese and Icelandic. A more recent classification based on mutual intelligibility...
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    player Julian Hans, French rugby union player Julian Hansen (born 1963), Faroese footballer Julian Hanses (born 1997), German racing driver Julian Hazel...
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    Congress as a Democrat in Illinois's 6th district in the 2006 mid-term election. She was narrowly defeated, and served for two years as Assistant Secretary...
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  • Danish krone (category Articles containing Faroese-language text)
    a localised, non-independent version of the Danish krone, known as the Faroese króna pegged with the Danish krone at par, using the Danish coin series...
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  • Major General and former Commanding General of Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard (1818-1893), Brigadier General, Confederate...
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  • American runner 1964 – Lee Janzen, American golfer 1964 – Kaj Leo Johannesen, Faroese footballer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands 1965...
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    at the time. Direct election by popular vote: Example: Israel, 1996–2001, where the prime minister was elected in a general election, with no regard to...
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    Lowland Scots over time. Norn persisted well into the 19th century, as the Faroese linguist Jakob Jakobsen wrote: As late as 1894, there were people in Foula...
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    to Greenland and the Faroe Islands until around 2020. Until 2018, the Faroese airline Atlantic Airways operated flights to Reykjavík Airport using Airbus...
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    swimmer Hanna Jarkiewicz (born 1954), Polish rower Hanna Jensen (born 1973), Faroese high school teacher and liberal politician Hanna Jessen (1907–1973), Norwegian...
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  • Kateryna Vasylivna Bilokur, Ukrainian folk artist (d. 1961) Christian Matras, Faroese linguist, poet (d. 1988) December 10 – Dominic Costa, Australian politician...
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    Latin script. The closest living relative of the Icelandic language is Faroese. Icelandic Sign Language was officially recognised as a minority language...
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    The Bronx (section General)
    east from Manhattan. The word "Bronx" originated with Swedish-born (or Faroese-born) Jonas Bronck, who established the first European settlement in the...
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