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The island was [[UsefulNotes/TheVikingAge first settled]] in 874.[[note]]By the ancestors of the current population, anyway - there are hints that Scots-Irish monks known in Icelandic Sagas as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papar Papar]] may have lived there semi-permanently, but they obviously left no descendants[[/note]]. The world's oldest parliament, the Althing, was founded in Iceland in 930. It ended up as part of UsefulNotes/{{Norway}} in the mid 13th century, which later merged with UsefulNotes/{{Denmark}} and UsefulNotes/{{Sweden}} to form the Kalmar Union. Iceland remained intertwined with Norway until the 1814 [[UsefulNotes/TheNapoleonicWars Treaty of Kiel]], in which Denmark gave Norway away to Sweden, in return for keeping its overseas territories, including Iceland, the UsefulNotes/FaroeIslands, and UsefulNotes/{{Greenland}}.
When Denmark fell to UsefulNotes/NaziGermany in 1940, the UsefulNotes/UnitedKingdom invaded Iceland, believing that it would stop the Germans going after it (the Germans weren't planning to do so). The Icelandic government protested, but resigned itself to cooperating after the British promised compensation and a withdrawal after the end of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. As British forces were needed elsewhere, occupation was handed over to the UsefulNotes/UnitedStates. There were more U.S. forces (40,000) than adult male locals, and many of the former married the local women. After UsefulNotes/WorldWarII ended, Iceland declared independence from Denmark, while the Faroe Islands and Greenland (which were also occupied by the Allies) decided to rejoin Denmark. U.S. forces left in 1946, before returning in 1951, two years after Iceland joined NATO.
When Denmark fell to UsefulNotes/NaziGermany in 1940, the UsefulNotes/UnitedKingdom invaded Iceland, believing that it would stop the Germans going after it (the Germans weren't planning to do so). The Icelandic government protested, but resigned itself to cooperating after the British promised compensation and a withdrawal after the end of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. As British forces were needed elsewhere, occupation was handed over to the UsefulNotes/UnitedStates. There were more U.S. forces (40,000) than adult male locals, and many of the former married the local women. After UsefulNotes/WorldWarII ended, Iceland declared independence from Denmark, while the Faroe Islands and Greenland (which were also occupied by the Allies) decided to rejoin Denmark. U.S. forces left in 1946, before returning in 1951, two years after Iceland joined NATO.
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The island was [[UsefulNotes/TheVikingAge first settled]] in 874.[[note]]By the ancestors of the current population, anyway - there are hints that Scots-Irish monks known in Icelandic Sagas as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papar Papar]] may have lived there semi-permanently, but they obviously left no descendants[[/note]]. The world's oldest parliament, the Althing, was founded in Iceland in 930. It ended up as part of UsefulNotes/{{Norway}} in the mid 13th century, which later merged with UsefulNotes/{{Denmark}} and UsefulNotes/{{Sweden}} to form the Kalmar Union. Following the dissolution of the Kalmar Union in the 16th century, Iceland remained intertwined with Norway until the 1814 [[UsefulNotes/TheNapoleonicWars Treaty of Kiel]], in which Denmark gave Norway away to Sweden, in return for keeping its overseas territories, including Iceland, the UsefulNotes/FaroeIslands, and UsefulNotes/{{Greenland}}.
When Denmark fell to UsefulNotes/NaziGermany in 1940, the UsefulNotes/UnitedKingdom invaded Iceland, believing that it would stop the Germans going after it (the Germans weren't planning to do so). The Icelandic government protested, but resigned itself to cooperating after the British promised compensation and a withdrawal after the end of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. As British forces were needed elsewhere, occupation was handed over to the UsefulNotes/UnitedStates. There were more U.S. forces (40,000) than adult male locals, and many of the former married the local women.After UsefulNotes/WorldWarII ended, Iceland declared independence from Denmark, while the Faroe Islands Denmark in 1944 and Greenland (which were also occupied by the Allies) decided to rejoin Denmark.became a republic. U.S. forces left in 1946, before returning in 1951, two years after Iceland joined NATO.
When Denmark fell to UsefulNotes/NaziGermany in 1940, the UsefulNotes/UnitedKingdom invaded Iceland, believing that it would stop the Germans going after it (the Germans weren't planning to do so). The Icelandic government protested, but resigned itself to cooperating after the British promised compensation and a withdrawal after the end of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. As British forces were needed elsewhere, occupation was handed over to the UsefulNotes/UnitedStates. There were more U.S. forces (40,000) than adult male locals, and many of the former married the local women.
