How autonomous was Iceland prior to it becoming an independent republic on 17th June 1944?
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  • 1 points KikoMui74

    This is interesting. So Iceland was some kind of Dependency before 1874, after a Constitutional Dependency. After 1904 some executive government in the Dependency. 1918 is much more clearer, It was a Personal Union client state, with a similar arrangement to Canada or NZ to the UK. Then 1944 independence.

    What we can determine, it was not an Inspectorate (military territory) like Greenland, nor a Colony nor a County nor an Overseas County. It had some unorganized status prior to 1918, unnamed title. Smaller imperial powers have a habit of not formalizing their territorial units. Even Denmark today doesn't have an official title for Faroe islands or Greenland, it's rather annoying.

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    1 points VastChampionship6770

    Thanks for the answer!

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