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Hvalsey ("Whale Island"; Greenlandic Qaqortukulooq) is located near Qaqortoq, Greenland and is the site of Greenland's largest, best-preserved Norse ruins in the area known as the Eastern Settlement (Eystribyggð). In 2017, it was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List and part of the Kujataa Greenland site.
The properties are distributed across all parts of Cincinnati. For the purposes of this list, the city is split into three regions: Downtown Cincinnati, which includes all of the city south of Central Parkway, west of Interstates 71 and 471, and east of Interstate 75; Eastern Cincinnati, which includes all of the city outside Downtown Cincinnati and east of Vine Street; and Western Cincinnati ...
L'Anse aux Meadows, a Norse settlement in Newfoundland. Foundations of eight structures, visible today only as mounds because they were reburied in a conservation effort. Includes modern reconstructions. [1] Church of Hvalsey, a Norse church in Greenland. Additional remains of Norse-era settlements. [2]
Approximately 500 groups of ruins of Norse farms are found in the area, with 16 church ruins, including Brattahlíð, Dyrnæs, Garðar, Hvalsey and Herjolfsnes. [2] The Vatnahverfi district to the southeast of Einarsfjord had some of the best pastoral land in the colony, and boasted 10% of all the known farm sites in the Eastern Settlement.
Hvalsey Church (Danish: Hvalsø Kirke; Old Norse: Hvalseyjarfjarðarkirkja) was a Catholic church in the abandoned Greenlandic Norse settlement of Hvalsey (modern-day Qaqortoq). The best preserved Norse ruins in Greenland , the church was also the location of the last written record of the Greenlandic Norse, a wedding in September 1408.
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Attorney Bennett Allen, who represented the Greater Cincinnati Coalition for the Homeless in the settlement, called the new policy a "tremendous victory for social justice."
Eastern Cincinnati includes 134 of these properties and districts, including 4 National Historic Landmarks; the city's remaining properties and districts are listed elsewhere. Another property in eastern Cincinnati was once listed but has been removed.