North Greenland

This article covers the Danish colony until 1950. For the later district, see Avanersuaq .

North Greenland was a Danish colony .

history

See also : “History” in the Greenland article

After Greenland was populated by the Vikings from Iceland in the Middle Ages , it belonged to the Inuit again after the rather puzzling extinction of those in the country . During the Viking Age, Norway laid claim to the Arctic island in the 13th century , until Norway after the death of King Håkon VI. 1380, who was married to the Danish regent Margarethe I , fell through their son Olav II in personal union with Denmark, which later became the Kalmar Union . The icy island, sparsely populated by indigenous people, which was probably of little value, fell into oblivion until Denmark-Norway again took Greenland into their territory in 1721 and ran it from then on as a sub-colony of Iceland. In 1775 the island was handed over to Den Kongelige Grønlandske Handel (KGH), at which point the division of the huge island was consolidated. Greenland was now divided into two colonies, both of which were administered by a Danish-Norwegian trading company. From 1782 inspectors from the KGH were given the management of the island. After the Peace of Kiel in 1814, Greenland was then only Danish. In the 1910s the administrative rights of the KGH were withdrawn and South and North Greenland got a kind of parliament with Grønlands Landsråd . From 1925 the inspector was replaced by a Landsfoged. It was not until 1950 that the two colonies were united.

location

North Greenland comprised the entire part of Greenland that was north of the 68th parallel. This runs between the places Sisimiut in the south and Ikerasaarsuk in the north and thus roughly corresponds to the border between today's large municipalities of Qeqqata and Qeqertalik or between today's districts of Sisimiut and Kangaatsiaq . The colony capital was Qeqertarsuaq .

Administrator

• For a list of the administrators of South Greenland (until 1924 as inspector, then as Landsfoged), see the list of administrators in Greenland
• For lists of members of the Provincial Council from 1911, see Category: Member of Grønlands Landsråds

Individual evidence

1. ^ History of Greenland at worldstatesmen.org
2. ↑ History of Greenland at schudak.de
3. ↑ James Bell : A System of Geography, Popular and Scientific: Or A Physical, Political, and Statistical Account of the World and Its Various Divisions, Volume 5. A. Fullarton and Company. 1831