The Colonization of Greenland may refer to either:
the Norse colonization of Greenland in the 10th century
the Danish colonization of Greenland in the 18th century
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"Greenlanders") were Norsemen that came from Iceland to settle on the Island ofGreenland in the years following 986. The Grænlendingar were the first Europeans...
Denmark and Norway in one form or another also maintained land claims in Greenland since the 13th century, the former up through the twenty-first century...
Flateyjarbók manuscript. The Saga of the Greenlanders starts with Erik the Red, who leaves Norway and colonizesGreenland. It then relates six expeditions...
Norse exploration of North America began in the late 10th century, when Norsemen explored areas of the North Atlantic colonizingGreenland and creating a...
The history ofGreenland is a history of life under extreme Arctic conditions: currently, an ice sheet covers about eighty percent of the island, restricting...
was sent to Greenland, not knowing whether a Norse civilization remained there. This expedition is part of the Dano-Norwegian colonizationof the Americas...
explored and colonized areas of Europe and the North Atlantic, colonizingGreenland and creating a short term settlement near the northern tip of Newfoundland...
group in Greenland. Most speak Greenlandic (Western Greenlandic, Kalaallisut) and consider themselves ethnically Greenlandic. People ofGreenland are citizens...
and superstitions. The saga includes several references to the colonizationofGreenland and one reference to an expedition to Vinland. It also mentions...
(2018). "By Gifts One Makes Slaves": Long-term Effects of Denmark's ColonizationofGreenland (Senior project). Bard College. Archived from the original...
The Greenland Dog (Greenlandic: Kalaallit Qimmiat, Danish: Grønlandshund) is a large breed of husky-type dog kept as a sled dog. They were brought from...
Studies Mallet, Paul Henri (1847), "Supplementary Chapter: ColonizationofGreenland and discovery of the American continent by the Scandinavians" (google)...
986: Norsemen settle Greenland and Bjarni Herjólfsson sights coast of North America, but doesn't land (see also Norse colonizationof the Americas). c. 1000:...
from Scandinavia during the late 10th century led to the Norse colonizationofGreenland and a base camp L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, which preceded...
maintained by colonialism. Colonization is sometimes used synonymously with settling, as with colonisation in biology, but while colonization historically involved...
Red's colonizationofGreenland and his son Leif Erikson's subsequent exploration of a place he called Vinland. In the 19th century, amid a revival of interest...
the site of a smaller "Middle Settlement" Danish colonizationofGreenland Francis, Carol S. (2011). "The Lost Western Settlement OfGreenland, 1342" (PDF)...
Denmark began trying to colonize all of the island in the 1880s. The United States also had a strong claim on Greenland. Much of it was unexplored when...
around Denmark. Communities of Danish speakers are also found in Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and the northern German region of Southern Schleswig, where...
Icelanders have some Native American ancestry arising from Norse colonizationofGreenland and North America. Icelanders also have an anomalously high Denisovan...
stage of Norse expansion in the west, the colonizationofGreenland (which led to the discovery of America) was accomplished by notable feats of seamanship...
century AD, gradually colonizing the island. The Danish claim to the island stems from Norse settlement of southern Greenland which lasted from the 980s...
Africa and the surrounding oceans. 900-1430 Vikings explore and colonize Iceland, Greenland, Newfoundland. 1002 Leif Erikson reaches North America 500 years...
Denmark portal Companies portal Danish colonizationofGreenland List of inspectors ofGreenland Hinrich Rink List of trading companies KNI Royal Arctic Line...
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