- Sermitsiaq
Sermitsiaq ("Saddle Mountain") is the name of a mountain near
Nuuk Fact|date=June 2008 and the name of one of the two national newspapers inGreenland . The newspaper is named after the mountain.The newspaper Sermitsiaq
The newspaper was published for the first time
May 21 ,1958 as aKalaallisut language alternative to theDanish language newspaper "Mikken". The two magazines were printed separately, with Mikken on Saturdays and Sermitsiaq on Mondays for about 6 months, until Mikken was published for the last time the 22nd of November same year. Sermitsiaq was first printed in both Danish and Kalaallisut the week before Mikken closed down.Fact|date=June 2008Sermitsiaq was a local newspaper distributed only in Nuuk city until around
1980 when the newspaper became national. The newspaper became increasingly politically oriented in the period around 1980, since Greenland was granted home rule in 1979.Fact|date=June 2008The newspaper is published every Friday.
External links
* [http://www.sermitsiaq.gl Sermitsiaq homepage] (in Kalaalisut and Danish)
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