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In 1863 Iceland was a dependency of the Danish Crown, represented by a royal governor (stiftamtman). The independence movement was gaining ground under the leadership of Jón Sigurđsson, the father of the constitution of 1874: the Alpingi of 20 members, suppressed in 1800, had been reinstated in 1843; the Danish trade monopoly, which had nearly ruined Iceland’s economy, had been abolished in 1854. The population was about 64,600.
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Steinberg, S.H. (1963). Iceland. In: Steinberg, S.H. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270923_59
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