Slaying of the Basques
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The Slaying of the Basques was the last documented massacre in Icelandic history. A party of Basque whalers went on a whaling expedition to Iceland and were killed after a conflict in 1615 with local
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Westfjords
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The Westfjords or West Fjords is a large peninsula in northwestern Iceland and an administrative region, the least populous in the country. It lies on the Denmark Strait, facing the east coast of Gree
Slaying of the Basques
…A party of Basque whalers went on a whaling expedition to Iceland and were killed after a conflict in 1615 with local people in the region of the Westfjords. During the first half of the sixteenth century, Basque whalers set up the world's first large-scale whaling industry in Newfoundland. The center of…
Westfjords
Dýrafjörður
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