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- Western_Settlement abstract "The Western Settlement (Old Norse: Vestribyggð) was a group of farms and communities established by Norsemen from Iceland around AD 985 in medieval Greenland. Despite its name, the Western Settlement was more north than west of its companion Eastern Settlement and was located at the head of the long Nuup Kangerlua fjord (inland from Nuuk, the present Greenlandic capital).At its peak, the Western Settlement probably had about 1,000 inhabitants, about a fourth the size of the Eastern Settlement, owing to its shorter growing season. The largest of the Western Settlement farms was Sandnæs. Ruins of almost 95 farms have been found in the area.Much less is known about the Western Settlement than the Eastern Settlement, as there is very little mention and no direct description of it in any of the medieval sources on Greenland. The Norse settlement was last mentioned by the traveler Ivar Bardarson, who wrote to the Bishop of Bergen to describe conditions he observed at some point in the period 1341–1360. In his voyage to the Western Settlement, he found only vacant farms. The demise of the Western Settlement coincides with a decrease in summer and winter temperatures. A study of North Atlantic seasonal temperature variability showed a significant decrease in maximum summer temperatures beginning in the late 1200s to early 1300s--as much as 6-8°C lower than modern summer temperatures. The study also found that the lowest winter temperatures of the last 2000 years occurred in the late 1300s and early 1400s.".
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- Western_Settlement wikiPageWikiLink Ancient_Diocese_of_Bergen.
- Western_Settlement wikiPageWikiLink Bishop_of_Bergen.
- Western_Settlement wikiPageWikiLink Category:10th_century_in_North_America.
- Western_Settlement wikiPageWikiLink Category:14th_century_in_North_America.
- Western_Settlement wikiPageWikiLink Category:Former_populated_places_in_Greenland.
- Western_Settlement wikiPageWikiLink Category:Norwegian_High-medieval_History.
- Western_Settlement wikiPageWikiLink Category:Populated_places_established_in_the_10th_century.
- Western_Settlement wikiPageWikiLink Category:Pre-Reformation_dioceses_in_Nordic_Europe.
- Western_Settlement wikiPageWikiLink Category:Ruins_in_Greenland.
- Western_Settlement wikiPageWikiLink Category:Sagas_of_Icelanders.
- Western_Settlement wikiPageWikiLink Category:Viking_Age_populated_places.
- Western_Settlement wikiPageWikiLink Category:Viking_exploration_of_North_America.
- Western_Settlement wikiPageWikiLink Danish_colonization_of_Greenland.
- Western_Settlement wikiPageWikiLink Danish_colonization_of_the_Americas.
- Western_Settlement wikiPageWikiLink Eastern_Settlement.
- Western_Settlement wikiPageWikiLink Fjord.
- Western_Settlement wikiPageWikiLink Greenland.
- Western_Settlement wikiPageWikiLink Iceland.
- Western_Settlement wikiPageWikiLink Ivittuut.
- Western_Settlement wikiPageWikiLink Norse_colonization_of_Greenland.
- Western_Settlement wikiPageWikiLink Norse_colonization_of_the_Americas.
- Western_Settlement wikiPageWikiLink Nuuk.
- Western_Settlement wikiPageWikiLink Nuup_Kangerlua.
- Western_Settlement wikiPageWikiLink Sandnæs.
- Western_Settlement wikiPageWikiLink File:Western-settlement-eng.png.
- Western_Settlement wikiPageWikiLinkText "Vestribygð".
- Western_Settlement wikiPageWikiLinkText "Western Settlement".
- Western_Settlement wikiPageWikiLinkText "Western settlement".
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- Western_Settlement hasPhotoCollection Western_Settlement.
- Western_Settlement wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Abandoned_sites_in_Greenland.
- Western_Settlement wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Coord.
- Western_Settlement wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Greenland_topics.
- Western_Settlement wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Lang-non.
- Western_Settlement wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Western_Settlement wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Vinland.
- Western_Settlement subject Category:10th_century_in_North_America.
- Western_Settlement subject Category:14th_century_in_North_America.
- Western_Settlement subject Category:Former_populated_places_in_Greenland.
- Western_Settlement subject Category:Norwegian_High-medieval_History.
- Western_Settlement subject Category:Populated_places_established_in_the_10th_century.
- Western_Settlement subject Category:Pre-Reformation_dioceses_in_Nordic_Europe.
- Western_Settlement subject Category:Ruins_in_Greenland.
- Western_Settlement subject Category:Sagas_of_Icelanders.
- Western_Settlement subject Category:Viking_Age_populated_places.
- Western_Settlement subject Category:Viking_exploration_of_North_America.
- Western_Settlement hypernym Group.
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- Western_Settlement type Q486972.
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- Western_Settlement comment "The Western Settlement (Old Norse: Vestribyggð) was a group of farms and communities established by Norsemen from Iceland around AD 985 in medieval Greenland.".
- Western_Settlement label "Western Settlement".
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- Western_Settlement sameAs Западное_поселение.
- Western_Settlement sameAs Västerbygden,_Grönland.
- Western_Settlement sameAs Q2300143.
- Western_Settlement sameAs Q2300143.
- Western_Settlement sameAs 格陵蘭西殖民地.
- Western_Settlement lat "64.43333333333334".
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- Western_Settlement wasDerivedFrom Western_Settlement?oldid=635174130.
- Western_Settlement depiction Western-settlement-eng.png.
- Western_Settlement isPrimaryTopicOf Western_Settlement.