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2019 In The Faroe Islands ...
Events in the year 2019 in the Faroe Islands. Incumbents * Monarch – Margrethe II * High Commissioner – Lene Moyell Johansen * Prime Minister – Aksel V. Johannesen (until 16 September), Bárður á Steig Nielsen (from 16 September) Events * 5 June – 2019 Danish general election * 31 August – 2019 Faroese general election Sports * 19 March – 26 October: 2019 Faroe Islands Premier League References {{Europe topic, 2019 in, state=collapsed 2010s in the Faroe Islands Years of the 21st century in the Faroe Islands Faroe Islands Faroe Islands The Faroe Islands ( ) (alt. the Faroes) are an archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous territory of the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark. Located between Iceland, Norway, and the United Kingdom, the islands have a populat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faroe Islands
The Faroe Islands ( ) (alt. the Faroes) are an archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous territory of the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark. Located between Iceland, Norway, and the United Kingdom, the islands have a population of 54,609 and a land area of 1,393 km². The official language is Faroese language, Faroese, which is partially mutually intelligible with Icelandic language, Icelandic. The terrain is rugged, dominated by fjords and cliffs with sparse vegetation and few trees. As a result of its proximity to the Arctic Circle, the islands experience perpetual Twilight, civil twilight during summer nights and very short winter days; nevertheless, they experience a Oceanic climate#Subpolar variety (Cfc, Cwc), subpolar oceanic climate and mild temperatures year-round due to the Gulf Stream. The capital, Tórshavn, receives the fewest recorded hours of sunshine of any city in the world at only 840 per year. Færeyinga saga, Færeyinga Saga and the writin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monarchy Of The Faroe Islands
The monarchy of Denmark is a constitutional institution and a historic office of the Kingdom of Denmark. The Kingdom includes Denmark proper and the autonomous territories of the Faroe Islands and Greenland. The Kingdom of Denmark was already consolidated in the 8th century, whose rulers are consistently referred to in Frankish sources (and in some late Frisian sources) as "kings" (). Under the rule of King Gudfred in 804 the Kingdom may have included all the major provinces of medieval Denmark. The current unified Kingdom of Denmark was founded or re-united by the Viking kings Gorm the Old and Harald Bluetooth in the 10th century. Originally an elective monarchy, it became hereditary only in the 17th century during the reign of Frederick III. A decisive transition to a constitutional monarchy occurred in 1849 with the writing of the first democratic constitution, replacing the vast majority of the old absolutist constitution. The current Royal House is a branch of the d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margrethe II Of Denmark
Margrethe II (; Margrethe Alexandrine Þórhildur Ingrid, born 16 April 1940) is a member of the Danish royal family who reigned as Queen of Denmark from 14 January 1972 until Abdication of Margrethe II, her abdication on 14 January 2024. Having reigned for exactly 52 years, she was the second-longest-reigning Danish monarch after Christian IV. Margrethe was born into the House of Glücksburg, a cadet branch of the House of Oldenburg, during the reign of her paternal grandfather, Christian X of Denmark, King Christian X. She is the eldest child of King Frederik IX and Queen Ingrid. She became heir presumptive to her father in 1953 when Act of Succession (Denmark), a constitutional amendment allowed women to inherit the throne. In 1967, she married Henri de Laborde de Monpezat, with whom she had two sons, Frederik X, Frederik and Prince Joachim of Denmark, Joachim. Margrethe succeeded her father upon his death in January 1972. Margrethe has worked as a scenographer, a costume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Danish High Commissioners In The Faroe Islands ...
The high commissioner of the Faroe Islands is Denmark's state representative in the Faroe Islands, which has internal self-government. The Danish title is ''Rigsombudsmand''. The high commissioner has a seat in the Faroese Løgting (parliament), where he or she is allowed to speak but not allowed to vote. References {{DEFAULTSORT:List of High Commissioners of the Faroe Islands *List High Commissioners of the Faroe Islands High High may refer to: Science and technology * Height * High (atmospheric), a high-pressure area * High (computability), a quality of a Turing degree, in computability theory * High (tectonics), in geology an area where relative tectonic uplift t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lene Moyell Johansen
Lene Moyell Johansen (born 19 December 1968) is a Danish lawyer who has been the High Commissioner of the Faroe Islands since 15 May 2017. She previously served in the Roskilde County, and has worked in the Faroe Islands The Faroe Islands ( ) (alt. the Faroes) are an archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous territory of the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark. Located between Iceland, Norway, and the United Kingdom, the islands have a populat ... since 2008. Altinget.dk, 30 June 2017 References External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prime Minister Of The Faroe Islands
The prime minister of the Faroe Islands is the head of government of the Faroe Islands. The Faroese language, Faroese term (plural: ) literally means "lawman" and originally referred to the legal function of lawspeaker. This old title was brought back into use to refer to the head of government after the islands obtained Home Rule in 1948. In recent decades the Faroese government has started using "Prime Minister" as the official English translation of , reflecting the increased autonomy of the islands. This translation does not apply to the pre-1816 office, only the modern leaders of the Faroese government. List of Løgmenn Løgmenn as lawmen (–1816) Many of the earlier holders of this position are not known. Løgmenn as Prime Ministers during the Home Rule era (1948–present) Timeline since 1948 This is a Bar chart, graphical lifespan timeline of prime ministers of the Faroe Islands. They are listed in order of office (those who served multiple terms are shown in or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aksel V
:''See Kusaila for the 7th-century Berber leader.'' Aksel is a masculine name, used predominantly throughout Scandinavia, a variant of Axel. People with the name include: * Aksel Agerby (1889–1942), Danish composer, organist, and music administrator * Aksel Airo (1898–1985), Finnish lieutenant general and main strategic planner * Aksel Andersen (1912–1977), Danish-American organist and composer and organ professor and examinist * Aksel Frederik Andersen (1891–1972), Danish mathematician * Aksel Arstal (1855–1940), Norwegian theologist, schoolteacher and geographer * Aksel Bender Madsen (1916–2000), Danish furniture designer * Aksel Berg (1893–1979), Soviet scientist and Navy Admiral (in Engineering) * Aksel Berget Skjølsvik (born 1987), Norwegian professional football player * Aksel Bonde (1918–1996), Danish rower who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics * Aksel Brehm (1889-?), Estonian politician * Aksel C. Wiin-Nielsen (1924–2010), Danish professor of meteor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bárður á Steig Nielsen
Bárður á Steig Nielsen (; born 16 April 1972) is a Faroese politician and businessman who serves as leader of the Union Party since 2015 and was prime minister from 2019 to 2022. He is also goalkeeper of the VÍF Vestmanna handball team and a former handball player of the Faroe Islands national team. Education and business career Bárður á Steig Nielsen has finished the first part of a Danish HD education in Management accounting from Aarhus University, School of Business and Social Sciences and has taken some of the subjects of the ''Merkonom'' education from Føroya Handilsskúli. He started his business career as an employee in the accountancy firm ''Rasmussen og Weihe'' in Tórshavn 1993–2000. From 2001 to 2004 he was employed as the chief Accountant at the Kollafjord Pelagic in Kollafjørður. In 2007 he left his position as the Finance Minister of the Faroe Islands in order to become the general manager of the large scale building project SMI Stóratjørn in H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Danish General Election
General elections were held in the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark on 5 June 2019 to elect all 179 members of the Folketing; 175 in Geography of Denmark, Denmark proper, two in the Faroe Islands and two in Greenland. The elections took place ten days after the 2019 European Parliament election in Denmark, European Parliament elections. The elections resulted in a victory for the "red bloc", comprising parties that supported the Social Democrats (Denmark), Social Democrats' leader Mette Frederiksen as candidate for prime minister. The "red bloc", consisting of the Social Democrats, the Danish Social Liberal Party, Social Liberals, Socialist People's Party (Denmark), Socialist People's Party, the Red–Green Alliance (Denmark), Red–Green Alliance, the Faroe Islands, Faroese Social Democratic Party (Faroe Islands), Social Democratic Party and the Greenlandic Siumut, won 93 of the 179 seats, securing a parliamentary majority. Meanwhile, the incumbent governing coalition, consisti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Faroese General Election
General elections were held in the Faroe Islands on 31 August 2019. The elections resulted in the defeat of Aksel V. Johannesen's coalition government consisting of the Social Democrats, Republic, and Progress. Following the elections, a new coalition government was formed by Union Party leader Bárður á Steig Nielsen, consisting of the Union Party, the People's Party and the Centre Party, which won 17 of the 33 seats. According to political scientist Lise Lyck, the main election issues were public finances (welfare, taxes and public coffers), recent reforms of the fishing sector and same-sex marriage. Electoral system The 33 members of the Løgting were elected by open list proportional representation in a single nationwide constituency with an electoral threshold of of votes (~3.03%). Seats were allocated using the d'Hondt method. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Faroe Islands Premier League
The 2019 Faroe Islands Premier League (referred to as ''Betri deildin menn'' for sponsorship reasons) was the 77th season of top-tier football in the Faroe Islands and the 15th under the current format. HB Tórshavn were the defending champions, having won their 23rd title in the previous season. The season started on 10 March and ended on 26 October. Teams The champions of the 2018 1. deild, Ítróttarfelag Fuglafjarðar, replaced 07 Vestur, the last-placed team in the 2018 Faroe Islands Premier League. It is the second consecutive season in which only one team went promoted from 1. deild, as they were the only non-reserve team in the top three. Tvøroyrar Bóltfelag, FC Suðuroy FC Suðuroy is a Faroe Islands, Faroese professional Association football, football club which was founded in January 2010 and consists of the former clubs Vágs Bóltfelag, VB (founded in 1905) and SÍ Sumba, Sumba (founded in 1949), which merge ... and Royn ended their cooperation and TB rep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faroe Islands Football Association
The Faroe Islands Football Association (; ), or FSF, is the governing body of all domestic football in the Faroe Islands, the highest level of which is the Faroe Islands Premier League. It also runs the Faroe Islands national teams for Faroe Islands national football team, men and Faroe Islands women's national football team, women. Established in 1979, it is based in Tórshavn. History Organized football has been played in the Faroes since late 19th century. The first Faroese national football league (Meistaradeildin) was held in Meistaradeildin 1942, 1942. From 1942 until 1978, all Faroese football was governed by ÍSF (the Faroese Sports Association). On 13 January 1979, the Faroese Football Association was established. At first it worked with organizing Faroese football. The first Faroese national football league for women was held in 1. deild kvinnur 1985, 1985. In the 1980s, the Faroese Football Association started training coaches and managers. At first it was done with hel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
