Established in 930 AD, Iceland’s Althing is considered the world’s oldest surviving parliament. Here’s how Viking chieftains created a system that still influences governance today.

Iceland seemed to have made history for a brief moment on Sunday when an initial election count appeared to have made the country the first in Europe to win a female-majority parliament. The early ...

Iceland’s thousand-year-old Althing (Parliament) last week carried out the mandate of Icelanders (TIME, May 15). Every bell in the island pealed as Althing members assembled in the open air on ...

Birgitta Jónsdóttir in her office in the Althing, Reykjavík, May 2016. (Reuters / Gwladys Fouche / File Photo) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive ...

COMMUNIST efforts to penetrate Iceland have existed for nearly 40 years. Popular support of Communism reached a high point in the 1940s when nearly 20 percent of the electorate supported the Communist ...

930 - An annual parliament - the Althing - established, to make laws and solve disputes. 986 - Erik the Red takes settlers from Iceland to colonise Greenland. 1000 - Iceland adopts Christianity. A ...