Re: Most peaceful European city?

In article <dfBng.6240$E02.1971@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Alan Crozier <name1.name2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Ulysses in Ilium wrote:

Choose any city in Switzerland. Reykjavik has been pretty
peaceful
too.
There was a bit of sectarian violence in Switzerland during
the reformation, think Geneva, John Calvin, Ulrich Zwingli, etc.


That was a while ago...

Yes it was, but less than a thousand years ago. More like 500.
Alan

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IIRC, there was a fishermen war between Iceland and either
Ireland or Scotland. This happened about 30 years ago.
Perhaps the Danes were protecting only the coasts and
not the fisheries.

David H

David, Scotland is not an independant country so Iceland could not have
been at war with them.
Denmark have not been protecting the fisheries of Iceland since the
early 1920´s, the war (wars) you mention took place in 1958/59 between
Iceland and the UK, when Iceland extended their fishing limits to 12
Nautical miles, in 1972/73 with the UK, when Iceland extended out to 50
NM and in 1975/75 with the UK, Belgium and West Germany when Iceland
extended the fishing limits out to 200 NM.
Iceland was victorious on all occasions.

In terms of war/peace status this was technically a police action
against ships from an allied nation. Iceland and the UK are both
founding members of NATO.

And Reykjavik was not seriously affected by the fighting either. :-)

The WW2 occupation of Iceland was a weird affair.

-- mrr



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