What country does the political movement started at the Christmas Meeting of 1888 seek sovereignty from?
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Christmas Meeting of 1888 The Christmas Meeting of 1888 (Faroese: "Jólafundurin 1888") is considered to be the official start of the Faroese National Movement.
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Faroese independence movement The Faroese independence movement or the Faroese national movement (Faroese: "Føroyska Tjóðskaparrørslan" or "Føroyska Sjálvstýrisrørslan") is a political movement which seeks the establishment of the Faroe Islands as a sovereign state outside of Denmark. Reasons for complete autonomy include the linguistic and cultural divide between Denmark and the Faroe Islands as well as their lack of proximity to one another; the Faroe Islands are about 990 km (approximately 620 miles) from Danish shores.
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International Association of the Congo The International Association of the Congo (French: "Association internationale du Congo" ), also known as the International Congo Society, was an association founded on 17 November 1879 by Leopold II of Belgium to further his interests in the Congo. It replaced the Belgian "Committee for the Study of the Upper Congo" (French: "Comité d'études du Haut-Congo" ), which was part of the International African Association front organisation created for the exploration of the Congo. The goals of the International Congo Society was to establish control of the Congo Basin and to exploit its economic resources. The Berlin Conference recognised the society as sovereign over the territories it controlled and in 1885 its structures were acquired by the Congo Free State.
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Berlin Conference The Berlin Conference of 1884–85, also known as the Congo Conference (German: "Kongokonferenz" ) or West Africa Conference ("Westafrika-Konferenz"), regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period, and coincided with Germany's sudden emergence as an imperial power. The conference was organized by Otto von Bismarck, first Chancellor of Germany, its outcome, the General Act of the Berlin Conference, can be seen as the formalization of the Scramble for Africa. The conference ushered in a period of heightened colonial activity by European powers, which eliminated or overrode most existing forms of African autonomy and self-governance.
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Anti-cession movement of Sarawak The anti-cession movement of Sarawak (Malay: Gerakan Anti-Penyerahan Sarawak ) was a movement in Sarawak to fight against the British attempt to govern Sarawak as a crown colony rather than a protectorate ruled by the White Rajahs. The movement lasted from 1 July 1946 until March 1950.
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Liberation movement A liberation movement is an organization or political movement leading a rebellion, or a non-violent social movement, against a colonial power or national government, often seeking independence based on a nationalist identity and an anti-imperialist outlook.
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The Movement (Iceland) The Movement (Icelandic: "Hreyfingin" ) was a political movement in Iceland. It had three members of parliament in the Icelandic Parliament, the Althing. All of them were former Citizens' Movement (CM) MPs.
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Pan-Americanism Pan-Americanism is a movement that seeks to create, encourage and organize relationships, associations and cooperation among the states of the Americas, through diplomatic, political, economic, and social means.
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Icelandic Movement – Living Country Icelandic Movement – Living Country (Icelandic: "Íslandshreyfingin – lifandi land" ) was a green political party in Iceland founded by the reporter and environmentalist Ómar Ragnarsson and Sigurlín Margrét Sigurðardóttir in 2007 to contest the 2007 parliamentary election. It failed to clear the election threshold and did not enter the Alþingi due to new law touching minimum percent of political parties who were raised to 5% though the party would have got three parliamentarians according to the older laws. At the Social Democratic Alliance's party congress in late March 2009, the Icelandic Movement became part of the SDA.
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Congo Free State The Congo Free State (French: "État indépendant du Congo" , "Independent State of the Congo", Dutch: "Kongo-Vrijstaat" ) was a large state in Central Africa from 1885 to 1908, which was in personal union with the Kingdom of Belgium under Leopold II. Leopold was able to procure the region by convincing the European community that he was involved in humanitarian and philanthropic work and would not tax trade. Via the International Association of the Congo he was able to lay claim to most of the Congo basin. On May 29, 1885, the king named his new colony the Congo Free State. The state would eventually include an area now held by the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Quebec sovereignty movement The Quebec sovereignty movement (French: "Mouvement souverainiste du Québec" ) is a political movement as well as an ideology of values, concepts and ideas that advocates independence for the Canadian province of Quebec.
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Lapua Movement The Lapua Movement (Finnish: "Lapuan liike" , Swedish: "Lapporörelsen" ) was a Finnish radical nationalist and anti-communist political movement founded in and named after the town of Lapua. After radicalisation it turned towards far-right politics and was banned after a failed coup-d'état in 1932. Anti-communist activities of the movement continued in the parliamentarian Patriotic People's Movement.
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Rodrigues Movement The Rodrigues Movement (French: "Mouvement Rodriguais" ) is a political party in Rodrigues island, Mauritius.
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Modern history of Fiji Since attaining independence from the United Kingdom on 10 October 1970, Fijian history has been marked by exponential economic growth up to 1987, followed by relative stagnation, caused to a large extent by political instability following two military coups in 1987 and a civilian putsch in 2000. This was followed by another military coup in 2006. Rivalry between indigenous Fijians and Indo-Fijians, rather than ideological differences, have been the most visible cleavage of Fijian politics.
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Camp Sovereignty Camp Sovereignty is the name given to an indigenous Australian protest movement established to publicise the ‘Black GST’ political group. The ‘GST’ reflects the group’s aims of ending genocide, acknowledging sovereignty and securing a treaty.
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Venetians Movement Venetians Movement ("Movimento Veneti") is an Venetist separatist cross-party political movement which aims to promote independence regardless of individual political positions such as left or right, in a democratic and nonviolent way. The complete name of the movement, which was founded on 26 November 2006 in Padua, is Venetians Movement for the Independence of Venetia ("Movimento Veneti par ła Indipendensa de ła Venetia"), but it is commonly known also as The Venetians ("I Veneti").
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National Democracy Movement (Philippines) The National Democratic Movement is a broad-based alliance of left-wing, progressive individuals and organizations seeking comprehensive social, economic, and political justice in the Philippines composed of landless peasants, urban and rural poor, indigenous peoples, oppressed religious minorities, activists, workers, youth, and students. The movement seeks to address what they consider to be the root causes of injustices affecting the Filipino masses in what is analyzed to be a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, by confronting the three fundamental problems of imperialism, feudalism, and bureaucrat capitalism.
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Luxembourg Crisis The Luxembourg Crisis (German: "Luxemburgkrise" , French: "Crise luxembourgeoise" , Dutch: "Luxemburgse kwestie" , Luxembourgish: "Lëtzebuerg-Kris" ) was a diplomatic dispute and confrontation in 1867 between the French Empire and Prussia over the political status of Luxembourg. The confrontation almost led to war between the two parties, but was peacefully resolved by the Treaty of London.
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Maurist Party The Maurist Party (Spanish: "Partido Maurista" , PM), initially known as the Maurist Conservatives (Spanish: "Conservadores Mauristas" , CM) or simply the Maurists (Spanish: "Mauristas" ), was originally a political faction within the Liberal Conservative Party, led by Antonio Maura, which split from the party in 1913 after Eduardo Dato's election as Conservative leader. A loose association of Maura's supporters at first, in 1918 it officially became a political party of its own.
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Māori King Movement The Māori King Movement or Kīngitanga is a movement that arose among some of the Māori tribes of New Zealand in the central North Island in the 1850s, to establish a role similar in status to that of the monarch of the British colonists, as a way of halting the alienation of Māori land. The Māori monarch operates in a non-constitutional capacity with no legal, or judicial power within the New Zealand government. Reigning monarchs retain the position of paramount chief of several tribes and wield some power over these, especially within Tainui where the monarchy is almost exclusively associated.
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Greater Indonesia Greater Indonesia, or in Indonesian and Malaysian, Indonesia Raya or Melayu Raya, was a political concept that sought to bring the so-called Malay race together by uniting the British territories of Malaya and Borneo with the Dutch East Indies. It was espoused by students and graduates of Sultan Idris Training College for Malay Teachers in the late 1920s, and individuals from Sumatra and Java including Muhammad Yamin and Sukarno in the 1950s. "Indonesia Raya" ("Greater Indonesia") is also the name of the Indonesian national anthem.
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Souverainism Souverainism (from the French word "souverainisme", i.e. the ideology of sovereignty) or sovereigntism, is a doctrine which supports acquiring or preserving political independence of a nation or a region. It opposes federalism and can be associated with certain independentist movements.