Subject: Re: Marine 4point? - Scandinavia<br/>
Date: Feb 23, 2003 @ 19:23<br/>
Author: Francisco &lt;xuax@netvisao.pt&gt; (&quot;Francisco &lt;xuax@...&gt;&quot; &lt;xuax@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1428194530">&quot;Jan S. Krogh&quot; &lt;jan.krogh@t...&gt; wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; it is not known any inter-Norse kingdom or statehood. Until 1814 <br/>
 </span></blockquote>Iceland was belonging to Norway, thereafter de facto to Denmark as <br/>
an own kingdom, until 1944 when it declared itself a republic - the <br/>
only Scandinavian country not being ruled by a monarch.<br/>
<br/>
Outside Scandinavia all the Nordic Countries (Iceland, Norway, <br/>
Sweden, Finland and Denmark) are usually refered to also as <br/>
Scandinavian countries, despite this isn&#39;t strictly geographically <br/>
correct.<br/>
Anyway, in this case, Finland is also a Scandinavian republic.<br/>
By the other hand, if you call Scandinavia just the geographic <br/>
region, then Iceland is not a Scandinavian country.<br/>
So, in either option Jan&#39;s statement seems to be incorrect. Or am I <br/>
missing something?<br/>
<br/>
Francisco,<br/>
Portugal</div>