The Faroe Islands competed at the 1988 Summer Paralympics in Seoul, South Korea. The islands' delegation consisted in four swimmers: Katrin Johansen, Christina Næss, Johan Samuelsen and Tóra við Keldu.The 1988 Games were the Faroe Islands' most successful Paralympics ever. Faroese swimmers won the Islands' first and so far only Paralympic gold medal, and also won more medals than at any other Games so far.

Faroe Islands

Faro station

Faroe Islands national under-19 football team

FRO

Faroese general election, 1950

People's Party

Bárður Hansen

Fróðskaparsetur Føroya

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The Faroe Islands competed at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece. The islands' delegation consisted in a single athlete, Heidi Andreasen in swimming.Andreasen won a bronze medal in the S8 400m freestyle, the Faroe Islands' only medal of the Games.

Faroese Parliament

Faroese general election, 1920

General elections were held in the Faroe Islands on 24 April 1918, the first in which women had the right to vote. Although the Union Party narrowly received the most votes, the result was a victory for the Self-Government Party, which won 11 of the 20 seats in the Løgting.

S. Jacobsen

Faroe islands national football team

New

Union Party

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General elections were held in the Faroe Islands on 23 January 1928. The Self-Government Party emerged as the largest in the Løgting, winning 11 of the 23 seats.
Self-Government Party

Faroese Islands

Farob is a town and jamoat in western Tajikistan. It is located in Panjakent District in Sughd province. The jamoat has a total population of 6,188.

The station in April 2010

Faroe Islands Cup 2006

Faroe Isles

The Faroe Islands competed at the 1984 Summer Paralympics co-hosted by Stoke Mandeville, United Kingdom and New York City, United States. The Faroe Islands were competing at the Paralympic Games for the first time, and were represented by three swimmers: Katrin Johansen, Ólavur Kongsbak and Kristvør Rasmussen. The Faroese competitors did not win any medals.

Tórsvøllur and Svangaskarð

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Faroese alphabet

Faroese Goose

The Faroe Islands competed in the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, United Kingdom, from 29 August to 9 September 2012.

Poulsen

Faroe Islands 0 – 5

Like other Scandinavian and Germanic peoples, the Faroese people of the Faroe Islands have also immigrated to the United States. However, there are no census estimates for the exact number.

Faroese Dane

Red

Faroe Islands at the 1992 Summer Paralympics

Social Democratic Party

General elections were held in the Faroe Islands on 8 November 1954. The Union Party emerged as the largest party in the Løgting, winning 7 of the 27 seats.

World Aquatics Championships

Faroe Islands are scheduled to participate at the 2015 European Games, in Baku, Azerbaijan from 12 to 28 June 2015. Since the Faroe Islands are not members of the European Olympic Committee, the Faroese participants occurred for the Ligue Européenne de Natation.

Kristian Joensen

Faroese crown

FaroeJet

Runi Gaardbo

Partial general elections were held in the southern part of the Faroe Islands on 2 February 1912. The Union Party remained the largest in the Løgting, with 13 of the 20 seats.

Farob

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Faroese Starling

Estação de Faro

Justinussen

Faroese general election, 1924

DEN

Eiler Rasmussen

The Faroese dance (Faroese: Føroyskur dansur, Danish: Kædedans) is the national circle dance of the Faroe Islands, accompanied by kvæði, the Faroese ballads.The dance is a typical mediaeval ring dance. The dance is danced traditionally in a circle, but when a lot of people take part in the dance they usually let it swing around in various wobbles within the circle.

General elections were held in the Faroe Islands on 8 November 1946. The People's Party remained the largest party in the Løgting, winning 8 of the 18 seats.

The Faroe Islands Football Association (Faroese: Fótbóltssamband Føroya), 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 men and women. Established in 1979, it is based in Tórshavn.
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Faroe Islands competed at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships in Shanghai, China between July 16 and 31, 2011.

Faroe Islands women's national handball team

Faroese general election, 1914

Faroe Islands national football team

Faroe

Samuelsen

Faroese general election, 1940

Gregersen

The Faroe pony, Faeroes pony, or Faroese horse, (Føroyska rossið in Faroese) is a small pony, with a height between 11.1 to 12.1 hands (45 to 49 inches, 114 to 124 cm). Technically this animal is a pony due to its height, but in the Faroe Islands it is called a horse because of its strength. The Faroe pony is only to be seen on the Faroe Islands and is therefore little known in other countries.

Faroese Teachers School

Landsliðið

Faroe pony

Faroese general election, 1954

General elections were held in the Faroe Islands on 28 January 1936. The Union Party and the Self-Government Party emerged as the joint-largest parties in the Løgting, both winning 8 of the 24 seats.

Kári Nielsen and Birgir Hansen

Faroe-Soviet Friendship Association

Faroese, Icelanders, Norwegians, Swedes, Germans, Danes, Shetlanders, Orcadians, Irish, Scottish

Rams are horned and ewes are polled

Árni Frederiksberg

Faroe language

The Faroe Islands competed at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, Australia. The islands' delegation consisted in two swimmers, Heidi Andreasen and Esther Hansen.Andreasen won all four of the Faroe Islands' medals: three silver (S8 50m freestyle, S8 100m freestyle, S8 400m freestyle) and one bronze (S8 100m backstroke).

Faroese Scientific Society
The Faroese Scientific Society (Faroese: Føroya Fróðskaparfelag), was founded in 1952 with the object of promoting co-operation in all fields of learning, collecting scientific literature, and publishing the results of research on or carried out in the Faroe Islands. A yearly periodical, Fróðskaparrit, came to be published annually. It was through the work of the society that the University of the Faroe Islands (Faroese: Fróðskaparsetur Føroya) came to be founded.

Tajikistan

Faroese general election, 1936

Faroese

Faroe Islands Premier League Football 2001

FFFFFF

Virðisbrævamarknaður Føroya (the Faroese Securities Market) was founded in 2000. Technical operator for the market is the Iceland Stock Exchange.

General elections were held in the Faroe Islands on 18 July 1906. The result was a victory for the Union Party, which won 12 of the 20 seats in the Løgting.

A referendum on creating a state monopoly on alcoholic beverages was held in the Faroe Islands on 8 November 1973. The proposal was rejected by 62% of voters, equating to 37.7% of registered voters, above the 33% quorum required for rejection. Prohibition was eventually lifted in 1992.

General elections were held in the Faroe Islands on 22 January 1924. The result was a victory for the Union Party, which won 13 of the 23 seats in the Løgting.

Faroe Islands competed at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, Russia from 24 July to 9 August 2015.

General elections were held in the Faroe Islands on 24 August 1943. The People's Party emerged as the largest party in the Løgting, winning 12 of the 25 seats.

Faroese Music Awards (short form: FMA, in Faroese: Føroysku Tónlistavirðislønirnar) is a Faroese music prize, which was established in 2014, after the former Faroese music prize Planet Awards was abolished in connection with Portal.fo being sold to new owners. Faroese Music Awards is a cooperation between Kringvarp Føroya, the newspaper Sosialurin and the internet new portal In.fo and the Nordic House.The Faroese Music Awards were handed for the first time on 15 March 2014 in the Nordic House in Tórshavn, where 22 prizes were handed. Faroese Music Awards was held for the second time on 14 March 2015; the categories were changed a bit.

Frederiksberg

Føroya Læraraskúli

Faroe Islands at the 1988 Summer Paralympics

Faroese Diocese

Faroese Music Awards

Faro do Alentejo

Rógvi Joensen

Republican Party

á Lag

Faro

Faroe Islands/Transportation

, Faro

DNK

FAR

Faroe Islands national under-21 football team

Lars Muller

The Faroe Islands Cup (Faroese: Løgmanssteypið) is the main football cup competition in Faroe Islands. The first edition was played in 1955.

Important parts of Faroese cuisine are lamb and fish, owing to the proximity to the ocean. Traditional foods from the Faroe Islands include skerpikjøt (a type of dried mutton), seafood, whale meat, blubber, garnatálg, Faroese puffins, potatoes and few fresh vegetables.Much of the taste of this traditional country food is determined by the food preservation methods used; brine, drying and the maturing of meat and fish, called ræstkjøt and ræstur fiskur.Animal products dominate Faroese cuisine.

Faroe Islands (Denmark)

Summer Paralympics

Faroese Teachers' Association

Landsliðið (National Team)

The Faroese Language Board (in Faroese: Føroyska málnevndin) is the language regulator of the Faroese language. It was founded in April 1985 and it is based in Tórshavn.

Faroe Islands at the 2004 Summer Paralympics

July 2015, October 2016

A Faroese Dane is a resident of Denmark with a Faroese ethnic background.

Faroese art is art by artists living in the Faroe Islands and art by Faroese nationals living abroad. In the Faroe Islands art is an important part of everyday life and in the public debate. It may be the special light in the Faroes which causes so many to express themselves in painting. The ever-changing Faroese weather and light provide opportunities for endless nuances, something which has fascinated both foreign and local artists over the years.

The Faroe Islands U19 National Team represents the Faroe Islands at under-19 age level and is controlled by the Faroe Islands Football Association.The team is most recently took part in the 2012 UEFA Under-19 qualifiers in the first qualification round, in November 2011.

Faroe Islands Premier League Football 2004

Faroe Islander women

Faroe Bridges

General elections were held in the Faroe Islands on 6 November 1945. The People's Party remained the largest in the Løgting, winning 11 of the 25 seats.

Heðin Hansen

Faroese people

Poul Ingason

Færø

Faroald ii of spoleto

Estação Ferroviária de Faro

Beinir Ellefsen

Faroe Islands at the 2015 European Games

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Rógvi Nielsen

Faeroes pony, Faroese horse, Faeroe Island Horse, Føroyski Hesturin

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Town and Jamoat

Lars Müller

Location in Tajikistan

Faroald II (also spelled Faruald) was the duke of Spoleto from 703, when he succeeded his own father Thrasimund I.Faroald ruled along with his mother Wachilap. He attacked and took Classis, the port of Ravenna, but he was ordered to return it by King Liutprand. Faroald also founded and endowed the monastery of San Pietro in Valle at Ferentillo. In 724, Faroald's son Thrasimund rebelled against his father and put him in a monastery.

Bogi Petersen

P. M. Joensen

The Faroe Islands national football team (Faroese: Føroyska fótbóltsmanslandsliðið, represents the Faroe Islands in association football and is controlled by the Faroe Islands Football Association. The Faroe Islands became a member of FIFA in 1988 and UEFA in 1990 and is the fourth smallest UEFA country by population.Faroe Islands have never advanced to the finals of the FIFA World Cup or UEFA European Championship. They took part in the Island Games in 1989 and 1991 and won both tournaments.
UEFA

Svimjisamband Føroya

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Faroe Islands U21

Faroe Islands Premier League Football 2002

The Faroese National Badminton Championships is a tournament organized to crown the best badminton players in Faroe Islands. They've been held since the season 1966.

Faroese general election, 1910

Faroese Socialists

Faroese Society

Official site

The Faroe Islands women's national handball team are the women's team for the Faroe Islands.

Faroese Althing

Faro railway station

Partial general elections were held in the southern part of the Faroe Islands on 2 February 1914. The Union Party remained the largest in the Løgting, with 12 of the 20 seats.

The Faroe Islands national under-21 football team are a feeder team to the Faroe Islands national football team. The Faroe Islands U21 team was first formed in 2006 and took part in UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying for the first time in 2007 and 2008. Before this there was no step between the U-19 team and the senior team.

Faroe ponies

Faroe horse

Faroe Island

A four-part referendum on alcohol was held in the Faroe Islands on 6 November 1907. Voters were asked whether they approved of the trading and serving of beer, wine and spirits. All four proposals were rejected by voters. Following the referendum, prohibition was introduced in 1908 on all beverages with an alcohol content above 2%. An attempt in 1973 to overturn this ban was rejected in another referendum, but it was eventually lifted in 1992.

Faroe Islands at the 2012 Summer Paralympics

Føroyingar

The faro shuffle (American), weave shuffle (British), riffle shuffle, or dovetail shuffle is a method of shuffling playing cards. Mathematicians use "faro shuffle" for a shuffle in which the deck is split into equal halves of 26 cards that are then interwoven perfectly.Magicians use these terms for a particular technique (which Diaconis, Graham, and Kantor call "the technique") for achieving this result.

September 2008

Claus A. Rasmussen

Thomassen

Faroe Islands Premier League Football 1976

Faroe Islands–European Union relations

Dalbúð

Related languages include Icelandic, Norwegian, Danish and to a lesser extent, all Germanic languages, with some influence coming from Irish.

To promote scientific co-operation and research in the Faroe Islands.

Faroe Islands Cup

The domestic animals of the Faroe Islands are a result of 1200 years of isolated breeding. As a result, many of the islands' domestic animals are found nowhere else in the world.

Faroese general election, 1906

Jákup Højgaard

General elections were held in the Faroe Islands on 30 January 1940. The Union Party emerged as the largest party in the Løgting, winning 8 of the 24 seats.

Faroe Islands Premier League Football 2008

Faroe Islands/History

Other Germanic or Celtic ethnic groups

Faroald I

Faroese Literature Prize

Faroe Islands at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships

Rúni Gaardbo

Faroe Islands 3 – 1

Faro shuffle

Mentanarvirðisløn Landsins (Faroese Cultural Prize) has been awarded by the Faroese government to Faroese writers, musicians, artists etc. since 1998. In 2004 no award was given. From 1998 to 2000 only one award was given, but in 2001 they established an additional award, half as big as the original.The prize is awarded by a board appointed by the Ministry of Culture. The board also gives additional special awards of 50.000 Danish Koroner and/or so-called sømdargávur or Sømdargáva landsins (grants), given as a lifelong annual grant of DKK 20 000. The main award, Mentanarvirðisløn landsins, is DKK 150.000, and the heiðursgáva landsins (award of honour) is DKK 75.000 koroner.In 2011 the awards were announced in December, with the next awards announced on 15 January 2013, which was William Heinesen's birthday. This was also the first time that the event was held in Klaksvík, being announced in Spaniastova and broadcast live on national Faroese radio. The following year the prizes were handed out on 15 January in Stóra Pakkhús (The Large Storage House) in Vágur.

Faroese folk ballads

Faroe Islands/Geography

Partial general elections were held in the northern part of the Faroe Islands on 12 February 1910. The Union Party remained the largest in the Løgting, with 13 of the 20 seats.

The Faroe Islands national handball team is the national handball team of Faroe Islands and is controlled by the Faroe Islands Handball Association.In June 2015 the team competed in the 2015 IHF Emerging Nations Championship, the Faroese team won the championship.

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Benjaminsen

Faroe Islands competed at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona, Spain between 19 July and 4 August 2013.

Faroese general election, 1908

The Faroese Communist Party (Faroese: Kommunistiski flokkur Føroya) was founded at a conference in Tórshavn 14th-15 June 1975. In 1974 a communist group had started organizing in the Faroe Islands which preceded the foundation conference. The chairman of KFF used to be Egon Thomsen and the party secretary Tórður Jóansson. Between 1975 and 1978 the publication of the KFF was Tíðin, from 1983 to 1993 the publication was Fríu Føroyar. The KFF enjoyed relations with the Communist Party of Denmark (DKP), but was not a section of the party. The party ceased activity in 1993.

Georg N. Rasmussen

Føroya Fróðskaparfelag

Vatnhamar

Faroese Braille

Jacobsen
S. J. Joensen
Olsen

Faroe Islands Football Association

Faroe Islands U19

Faroese Music Awards (short form: FMA, in Faroese: Føroysku Tónlistavirðislønirnar) is a Faroese music prize, which was established in 2014, after the former Faroese music prize Planet Awards was abolished in connection with Portal.fo being sold to new owners.

Historically Norse religion and Celtic Christianity and Catholicism

Faroese alcohol referendum, 1907

Faroese National Radio

Faroe Islanders

P. Albinus

The Faroese Women's Cup (Steypakapping Kvinnur) is the national women's football cup competition in the Faroe Islands. The first edition of the cup was played out in 1990.

Faroe Islands Premier League Football 2003

Róaldur JakobsenINJ

The Faroese sheep is a breed of sheep native to the Faroe Islands.First introduced in the 9th century, Faroese sheep have long been an integral part of the island traditions. The name Faeroe itself is thought to mean "sheep islands", and the animal is depicted on the Faroe Islands' historic coat of arms. One of the Northern European short-tailed sheep, it is a small, very hardy breed. Faroes ewes weigh around 45 pounds (20 kg) at maturity, and rams are 45–90 pounds (20–40 kg).

FaroeJet was an airline based in Vágar Airport on the island of Vágar of Faroe Islands. It was the second airline of Faroe Islands, the other one being Atlantic Airways. The airline ceased all operations on December 15, 2006, because of financial problems.

Faroe Islands U-21

Faroe Islands national handball team

Faroese folk dancers, in national costumes.

Alex Troleis

Faroese general election, 1945

Faroer Islands

Independent politician

Faroese Women's Cup

Faroe Islands national football team results

Faroese general election, 1932

Faroald I (also spelled Faruald) (died 591 or 592) was the first Duke of Spoleto, which he established during the decade of interregnum that followed the death of Alboin's successor (574 or 575). He led the Lombards into the centre of the Italian peninsula while Zotto led them into the south.In 579, he sacked Classis, the harbour of Ravenna. Between 584 and 588, Classis was retaken by Droctulf.His sons fought over the duchy in 602 and Theudelapius was victorious.

The Faroese Teachers' Association (Faroese: Føroya Lærarafelag) is a trade union for educators in the Faroe Islands. The association was established in 1898, and its press, Bókadeild Føroya Lærarafelags (Faroese Teachers' Association Publishing Company), was established in 1956.

Faroe Islands Super Cup

College, part of the University of the Faroe Islands

Ivan Joensen

Faroese general election, 1912

Faroe Islands/People

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Faroese National Badminton Championships

RCK

Faroe Islands at the 1996 Summer Paralympics

The Faroe Islands national football team (Faroese: Føroyska fótbóltsmanslandsliðið, represents the Faroe Islands in association football and is controlled by the Faroe Islands Football Association. The Faroe Islands became a member of FIFA in 1988 and UEFA in 1990 and is the fourth smallest UEFA country by population.Faroe Islands have never advanced to the finals of the FIFA World Cup or UEFA European Championship. They took part in the Island Games in 1989 and 1991 and won both tournaments. They also took part in the Nordic Football Championship for the first time in 2000–01, the last time the competition was played. In the Faroe Islands the team is known as the landsliðið. Home matches are played at Tórsvøllur.

Petur Reinert

The Faroese Teachers School (Faroese: Føroya Læraraskúli) is a college in Tórshavn in the Faroe Islands, which became part of the University of the Faroe Islands on 1 August 2008. Since 2008 it has offered bachelor's degrees in general and specialized education; before 2008, education students did not receive a BA. The school's four-year program in general education qualifies graduates for teaching positions in primary schools and preschools in the Faroe Islands and Denmark.The Faroese Teachers School was founded as the Faroese Normal School in 1870, when many teachers were needed in primary schools after the introduction of compulsory education in 1846. Gregers Joensen and Óli Niklái Skaalum were members of the first graduating classes, and later many prominent persons attended the school. There has been no other teacher training program in the Faroe Islands since the establishment of the Faroese Teachers School. Today the school is part of the University of the Faroe Islands and is also affiliated with the Faroese Research Council (Faroese: Granskingarráðið).

The Faroe Islands competed at the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta, United States. The islands' delegation consisted in a single representative, Ester Høj in swimming (S7 disability category). Høj did not win any medals.

Partial general elections were held in the southern part of the Faroe Islands on 2 February 1908. The Union Party remained the largest in the Løgting, with 13 of the 20 seats.

Faroes (sheep)

Faroese Cultural Prize

Faroald II of Spoleto

Other Germanic peoples or Celts

General elections were held in the Faroe Islands on 19 January 1932. The Union Party emerged as the largest in the Løgting, winning 11 of the 21 seats.

Faroe islands

Faroald II

Faroese cuisine

Faroe Islands in the Eurovision Song Contest

General elections were held in the Faroe Islands on 10 November 1920. The Union Party and the Self-Government Party both won 10 of the 20 seats in the Løgting.

Faroese Krona

Faro do Alentejo is a Portuguese civil parish (Freguesia) within the municipality of Cuba. The population in 2011 was 591, in an area of 44.68 km².It also used to be known as Farinho (which in Portuguese means "small Faro").

Oyggjaframi (Advancement for the Islands) was a group operating to the political left founded by Faroese students in Denmark in 1962. Later a local section was organized in Tórshavn.In 1969 Oyggjaframi changed name to Oyggjaframi - Føroyskir Sosialistar (Advancement for the Islands - Faroese Socialists).Initially the group was linked to Tjóðveldisflokkurin (the Republican Party), but due to increasing communist influence in Oyggjaframi the party broke the relations with the group.The Tórshavn section broke away to form Oyggjaframi (m-l). The remaining group was renamed Føroyskir Sosialistar (In Danish: Færøske Socialister).FS fought for the creation of a Faroese socialist republic. FS actively struggled against NATO.Oyggjaframi, FS published the monthly magazine Framin (Forward), which carried the subtitle Føroyskt tíðarrit fyri sosialismu og sjálvstýri (Faroese magazine for socialism and independence) between 1962 and 1984 and Roðin between 1971 and 1982.At the World Federation of Democratic Youth General Assembly in Varna, Bulgaria in 1974 FS were accepted as members.

Partial general elections were held in the southern part of the Faroe Islands on 28 February 1916. The Union Party remained the largest in the Løgting, with 10 of the 20 seats.

NOR

Faroese Communist Party

B. Hansen

Pál Mohr Joensen

Faroese Premier League

Faroese general election, 1943

ISL

The Faroe Islands national football team represents the Faroe Islands in association football and is controlled by the Faroe Islands Football Association (FSF), the governing body of the sport in the country. It competes as a member of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), which encompasses the countries of Europe. Organised football has been played in the country since the 19th century; Tvøroyrar Bóltfelag was its first club, founded in 1892.

Eysturoy
Nielsen
Jakobsen

Faroe Islands Premier League 2008

Faroese Americans

Faroese general election, 1918

The Faroese Pilot Association (Faroese Flogskiparafelag Føroya), abbreviated FAPA is the national Faroese pilot union, covering all kinds of pilots (nationals as well as foreigners, fixed-wing and helicopter aircraft) on the Faroe Islands, especially those working for Atlantic Airways, the national Faroe airline.Current president of the association is Captain Rúni Højgaard.

Faroe Islands at the 2000 Summer Paralympics

Faroald I of Spoleto

Faroese Language Board

ROCKROSE

Faroe islands animal breeds

Faroe Islands Premier League Football 2007

Faroe Islands Premier League football

Faroe Islands 2. deild

Faro station (Portuguese: Estação de Faro) is the main railway station in the city of Faro, Portugal, operated by Comboios de Portugal.

Faroe Islands/Government

Bogi Reinert Petersen

Steypakappingin í kvinnufótbólti

Faroe Islands and the European Union

Faro district

K. Høvdanum

Faroese fauna

S. Vatnhamar

The Faroe Islands national football team represents the Faroe Islands in association football and is controlled by the Faroe Islands Football Association (FSF), the governing body of the sport in the country. It competes as a member of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), which encompasses the countries of Europe. Organised football has been played in the country since the 19th century; Tvøroyrar Bóltfelag was its first club, founded in 1892. Initially, clubs played friendlies to determine the winner of an unofficial championship, with matches being contested home and away, depending on the weather and the state of the generally uneven grass pitches. The Faroe Islands Sports Association was formed in 1939, and three years later a national league was created. Cup competitions were introduced in 1955 before the FSF was founded on 13 January 1979.The Faroe Islands joined the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) on 2 July 1988, and played its first official match—a 1–0 defeat against Iceland—on 24 August 1988. The nation recorded its first victory in its next friendly, 1–0 against Canada. On 18 April 1990, the Faroe Islands became a member of UEFA and entered its first major international competition later that year: the qualifying rounds for the 1992 UEFA European Football Championship. The team won their first competitive match on 12 September 1990 when they defeated Austria 1–0. The Faroe Islands made its first appearance in the qualifying rounds of the FIFA World Cup during the 1994 edition, but the country has yet to reach the finals of either competition.The team's largest victory came on 25 May 1995 when they defeated San Marino by three goals to nil. Their worst loss is 8–1 against Yugoslavia in 1996. The Faroe Islands have also been defeated by seven goals to nil three times: against Yugoslavia in 1991; Romania in 1992; and Norway in 1993. Fróði Benjaminsen holds the appearance record for the Faroe Islands, having been capped 87 times during an international career that lasted 16 years. The goalscoring record is held by Rógvi Jacobsen, who scored ten times in 54 matches. As of July 2016, the Faroe Islands are ranked 89th in the FIFA World Rankings. Its highest ever ranking of 74th was achieved in July 2015.

Faroes sheep

Hørður Askham

Farod

A. Hansen

Faroe Islands Premier League Football 2006

A. Mørkøre

Faroejet

Faroese Pilot Association

Faroese general election, 1946

Faro station (Portuguese: Estação de Faro) is the main railway station in the city of Faro, Portugal, operated by Comboios de Portugal. It opened on 1 July 1889.The line to the north-west is electrified, using overhead catenary, the line east, to the terminus at Vila Real de Santo António, is not.In 1999, following the creation of a rail crossing over the River Tagus at Lisbon, the Alfa Pendular high speed electric tilting train service was introduced on the Braga-Oporto-Lisbon-Faro line, with through trains south of Lisbon starting in 2003.

Faroe Islands Premier League Football

Faroald i of spoleto

Faroe Islands Cup 2007

Faroe Is.

S. Joensen

Faroese Braille is the braille alphabet of the Faroese language. It has the same letter assignments as the rest of the Nordic braille alphabets.All base letters are as in International Braille (meaning the French Braille alphabet, as that was the first one created). The letters are also exactly the same as the other Nordic Braille alphabets, just as they are in the normal printed Nordic alphabets.

Mikkelsen

The Faroese Communist Party (Faroese: Kommunistiski flokkur Føroya) was founded at a conference in Tórshavn 14th-15 June 1975. In 1974 a communist group had started organizing in the Faroe Islands which preceded the foundation conference. The chairman of KFF used to be Egon Thomsen and the party secretary Tórður Jóansson. Between 1975 and 1978 the publication of the KFF was Tíðin, from 1983 to 1993 the publication was Fríu Føroyar.

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The Faroe Islands Super Cup (in Faroese: Stórsteypadystur) is contested between the League champions and the winners of the Faroe Islands Cup from the previous season.

Faroe Islands at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships

Faroese Braille is the braille alphabet of the Faroese language. It has the same letter assignments as the rest of the Nordic braille alphabets.All base letters are as in International Braille (meaning the French Braille alphabet, as that was the first one created). The letters are also exactly the same as the other Nordic Braille alphabets, just as they are in the normal printed Nordic alphabets. For example, å/á, ö/ø and ä/æ are the same letters not only in Braille between, say, Faroese and Swedish Braille, but also recognized as exactly the same characters between, say, ink-printed Norwegian and Swedish (it's merely a stylistic choice in which language uses which). That is to say, all letter assignments in the Swedish and Icelandic Braille alphabets are exactly the same in the Faroese one.For example, ð is the same letter in both Faroese and Icelandic ink-print characters, and their Braille alphabets. The difference in the alphabets comes only in the Faroese diphthongs (ei being 26, ey 356, oy 24 - that is to say, "ei" is represented by one dot filled in, in the second row of the first column and the third row of the second column of a Braille character). These diphthongs are also considered single sounds when spelling Faroese in general, as in, it always would be spelled "ey" instead of "e-y" and the two letters can't be separated. These assignments conveniently do not exist in the Icelandic Braille alphabet, so they're an easy way to tell if the Braille is Faroese or Icelandic. Likewise, the Icelandic letter þ (which no longer exists in Faroese) is assigned to 1246, which is a character that doesn't exist already in the Faroese Braille alphabet. Summarized, it is just as easy to read Icelandic Braille if one is a Faroese-speaker, as it is to read Icelandic ink-printed text if one can read Faroese.(Note that the Braille character assignments in the chart below are incorrect and/or have missing letters, due to the previous Wiki user finding incorrect information! Please view this actual Faroese source for the correct alphabet.)

Faroe Islands/Economy

Danielsen
Ó. Hansen
Heinesen

Gunnar Christiansen

The Faroe Islands, a self-governing nation within the Kingdom of Denmark, is not part of the EU, as explicitly asserted by both Rome treaties.The relations of the Faroe Islands with the EU are governed by a Fisheries Agreement (1977) and a Free Trade Agreement (1991, revised 1998). The main reason for remaining outside the EU is disagreements about the Common Fisheries Policy.

Faroe Islands Premier League Football 2005

Oddmar Marstein

Faroe Islands Cup 2009

Jespersen

Mentanarvirðisløn Landsins (Faroese Cultural Prize) has been awarded by the Faroese government to Faroese writers, musicians, artists etc. since 1998. In 2004 no award was given. From 1998 to 2000 only one award was given, but in 2001 they established an additional award, half as big as the original.The prize is awarded by a board appointed by the Ministry of Culture.

General elections were held in the Faroe Islands on 8 November 1950. The People's Party remained the largest party in the Løgting, winning 8 of the 25 seats.

Faroe Islander

Farobroerne

To promote scientific co-operation and research in theFaroe Islands.

The faro shuffle (American), weave shuffle (British), riffle shuffle, or dovetail shuffle is a method of shuffling playing cards. Mathematicians use "faro shuffle" for a shuffle in which the deck is split into equal halves of 26 cards that are then interwoven perfectly.Magicians use these terms for a particular technique (which Diaconis, Graham, and Kantor call "the technique") for achieving this result. A right-handed practitioner holds the cards from above in the right and from below in the left hand. The deck is separated into two preferably equal parts by simply lifting up half the cards with the right thumb slightly and pushing the left hand's packet forward away from the right hand. The two packets are often crossed and tapped against each other to align them. They are then pushed together on the short sides and bent either up or down. The cards will then alternately fall onto each other, ideally alternating one by one from each half, much like a zipper. A flourish can be added by springing the packets together by applying pressure and bending them from above.A game of faro ends with the cards in two equal piles that the dealer must combine to deal them for the next game. According to the magician John Maskelyne, the above method was used, and he calls it the "faro dealer's shuffle". Maskelyne was the first to give clear instructions, but the shuffle was used and associated with faro earlier, as discovered mostly by the mathematician and magician Persi Diaconis.A faro shuffle that leaves the original top card at the top and the original bottom card at the bottom is known as an out-shuffle; one that moves the original top card to second and the original bottom card to second from the bottom is known as an in-shuffle. These names were coined by the magician and computer programmer Alex Elmsley. A perfect faro shuffle, where the cards are perfectly alternated, is considered one of the most difficult sleights of card manipulation, because it requires the shuffler to cut the deck into two equal stacks and apply just the right pressure when pushing the half decks into each other.The faro shuffle is a controlled shuffle that does not fully randomize a deck. If one manages to perform eight perfect faro out-shuffles in a row, then the deck of 52 cards will be restored to its original order. If one can do perfect in-shuffles, then 26 shuffles will reverse the order of the deck and 26 more will restore it to its original order. If an additional 12 cards are added to the deck, so that the deck contains 64 cards, only 6 faro shuffles are required to maintain the order of a deck, compared to 8 shuffles for a 52-card deck.

The Faroese Society (Faroese: Føringafelag) was a Faroese association.The society was established on January 6, 1889 with a twofold objective: 1) For the Faroese language to regain its honor and dignity, and 2) For the Faroese to stick together and develop in all areas so that they can fend for themselves.Poor weather had prevented many people from the most remote villages from attending the Christmas Meeting of 1888 on the second day of Christmas in Tórshavn. A second meeting was therefore convened on January 6, 1889. As at the Christmas Meeting, Rasmus Effersøe and Jóannes Patursson attended and were the leading forces there.In 1890 the society established its own newspaper, Føringatíðindi (The Faroes Journal).The society disbanded in 1901.

Stórsteypadystur

Faroe Islands at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships

Faroe Islands at the 1984 Summer Paralympics

Faroese general election, 1928

Faroese (language)

Faroen

The Faroe Islands competed at the 1992 Summer Paralympics in Barcelona, Spain. The islands' delegation consisted in three athletes competing in two sports. Durid Svensson and Tóra við Keldu represented the Faroe Islands in women's swimming, and Heini Festirstein in men's table tennis.Vid Keldu won the Faroe Islands' only medal, a silver in the S10 100 metre freestyle.

Faroe Islands domestic animals

Faroeq

FaroeJet official website

Ari Ellingsgaard

Faroese Church

Faroe (disambiguation)

Farocki

Very little flocking instinct

Faroe Islands/Military

Postrúm 209, FO-110, Tórshavn

Faroe sheep

Denmark

Faroese Women's Football League

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Faroese Islanders

Faroese alcohol referendum, 1973

Faroe Islands Cup 2008

Faroese National Library

Faroald

Faroese food

Faroe Islands women

Oyggjaframi (Advancement for the Islands) was a group operating to the political left founded by Faroese students in Denmark in 1962.

Faroese general election, 1916

Faroer

Faroe Islands Premier League Football 2009

Icelanders, Norwegians, Danes, English, Shetlanders, Orcadians, Irish, Scottish, Swedes

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Meat

Important parts of Faroese cuisine are lamb and fish, owing to the proximity to the ocean. Traditional foods from the Faroe Islands include skerpikjøt (a type of dried mutton), seafood, whale meat, blubber, garnatálg, Faroese puffins, potatoes and few fresh vegetables.Much of the taste of this traditional country food is determined by the food preservation methods used; brine, drying and the maturing of meat and fish, called ræstkjøt and ræstur fiskur.Animal products dominate Faroese cuisine. Popular taste has developed, however, to become closer to the European norm, and consumption of vegetables has greatly increased in recent decades while consumption of fish has diminished. Fresh and ræst lamb meat remains very popular while traditional meat products, such as various types of sausages, have lost a lot of their appeal with younger generations.

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Faroese flag

Faroe Islands/Communications

The Faroese sheep is a breed of sheep native to the Faroe Islands.First introduced in the 9th century, Faroese sheep have long been an integral part of the island traditions. The name Faeroe itself is thought to mean "sheep islands", and the animal is depicted on the Faroe Islands' historic coat of arms. One of the Northern European short-tailed sheep, it is a small, very hardy breed. Faroes ewes weigh around 45 pounds (20 kg) at maturity, and rams are 45–90 pounds (20–40 kg). Rams are horned and ewes are usually polled, and the breed occurs naturally in many different colours, with at least 300 different combinations with each their own unique name.Faroese sheep tend to have very little flocking instinct due to no natural predators, and will range freely year round in small groups in pastureland, which ranges from meadows, to rugged rocky mountaintops and lush bird-cliffs. They are most closely related to the Norwegian Spælsau and Icelandic sheep.Ears are usually cut with various simple designs, to denote ownership and what pastures the sheep belong on. There are 54 different official cuts, which can be paired in a vast variety of ways; it is not permitted to use the same combination twice on the same island. The first known law regarding earmarks is in the Sheep letter from 1298, where it is stated among other things in the fifth section:Enn ef hann markar þann sað sem aðr er markaðr. oc sætr sina æinkunn a ofan a hins er aðr atti þann sað. þa er hann þiofr.But if he marks sheep which are already marked and puts his mark over that of the owner, he is a thief.The agricultural policies of the Faroe Islands, have over the centuries divided the pasture into 463 different land lots, with a value measured in mark, and between 40 and 48 ewes going on each mark has resulted in the total prescribed number of ewes that the land can support, being 70.384.During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Scottish sheep were imported, mostly in order to produce better wool. This has resulted in some Faroese sheep being of a mixed breed; the majority are still pure.

Faroese coins

The Faroese Literature Prize, also known as the Mentanarvirðisløn M. A. Jacobsens (M. A. Jacobsen's Cultural Award), is a prize for Faroese literature that was begun by the Tórshavnar kommuna (Tórshavn City Council) in 1958. Its winners include Heðin Brú, Jákup Pauli Gregoriussen, Jóanes Nielsen and Kristian Blak. The prize is always awarded at a ceremony in Tórshavn on 17 September or a day close to 17 September, which is the birthday of Mads Andreas Jacobsen. M. A. Jacobsen was a Faroese politician and librarian who headed the National Library of the Faroe Islands, then called Færø Amts Bibliotek in Danish but later renamed Landsbókasavnið, in Faroese. M. A. Jacobsen was the mayor of Tórshavn and a member of the Løgting (the Faroese parliament). The M. A. Jacobsen Prize was at first only for writers, but was later expanded to three categories: one award for Faroese fiction, one for Faroese nonfiction and one for other cultural achievements. In 2012 the prize was worth 35,000 Danish kroner.Another Faroese cultural prize, called Mentanarvirðisløn Landsins (Faroese Cultural Prize), is currently worth 150,000 DKK. In addition the Heiðursgáva landsins (The Faroese Cultural Department's Award of Honour) as of 2012 is worth 75,000 DKK.

Faroese ballad

Nolsøe

May 2016

Faroese ewe with lambs in Porkeri, Faroe Islands

Eli Nielsen

Faroe Islands-European Union relations

European Games

Faroese People's Church

The Faroese Literature Prize, also known as the Mentanarvirðisløn M. A. Jacobsens (M. A. Jacobsen's Cultural Award), is a prize for Faroese literature that was begun by the Tórshavnar kommuna (Tórshavn City Council) in 1958. Its winners include Heðin Brú, Jákup Pauli Gregoriussen, Jóanes Nielsen and Kristian Blak. The prize is always awarded at a ceremony in Tórshavn on 17 September or a day close to 17 September, which is the birthday of Mads Andreas Jacobsen. M. A.

The Faroese Teachers School (Faroese: Føroya Læraraskúli) is a college in Tórshavn in the Faroe Islands, which became part of the University of the Faroe Islands on 1 August 2008. Since 2008 it has offered bachelor's degrees in general and specialized education; before 2008, education students did not receive a BA.

Faroese (disambiguation)

Faroese Securities Market

Faroe Islands Premier League Football 2000

Faroee

The Faroese Society (Faroese: Føringafelag) was a Faroese association.The society was established on January 6, 1889 with a twofold objective: 1) For the Faroese language to regain its honor and dignity, and 2) For the Faroese to stick together and develop in all areas so that they can fend for themselves.Poor weather had prevented many people from the most remote villages from attending the Christmas Meeting of 1888 on the second day of Christmas in Tórshavn.

Faroese dance

Foundation

Faroee Islands

Faroese ballads

C. H. Jacobsen

Faroese art is art by artists living in the Faroe Islands and art by Faroese nationals living abroad. In the Faroe Islands art is an important part of everyday life and in the public debate. It may be the special light in the Faroes which causes so many to express themselves in painting. The ever-changing Faroese weather and light provide opportunities for endless nuances, something which has fascinated both foreign and local artists over the years. However, the history of Faroese art is short, and can only be dated a couple of hundred years back. Lack of time, light and materiel may have caused the late appearance of painting. But despite this, the islands have a very active art scene. A great many of the Faroese artists of today resent being reminded of the fact that Faroese art is a comparatively recent phenomenon. They find such an observation annoying as regards their artistic work, and they claim that such a statement has no bearing whatsoever on them as artists as their frame of reference is both local and global.With the first Faroese painters the landscape became a national icon and it has remained the central topic in Faroese visual art. The grip that Faroese art, motifically speaking, takes on the Faroese landscape might seem to be a rather old fashioned approach to visual art. The interest in installations, minimalism and conceptual art, has so far not affected Faroese art much. The village by the ocean is probably the motif which has been repeated the most. Danish art critic Ole Nørlyng concludes that nature, the wild landscape, is the driving force behind Faroese artists. but except for a close affinity with the landscape and culture of the Islands, there has always been great diversity in Faroese art.

Faroes

Faroese art