Dimmalætting
Sign in to savethumb | rightDimmalætting (Faroese for 'Dawn') is the oldest and largest newspaper of the Faroe Islands and is based in Tórshavn.
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Vinony files it under Danish companies established in 1877 and Newspapers published in the Faroe Islands.
Vinony links it to 12 Wikipedia language editions.
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- periodical
- Official website
- www.dimma.fo
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- Faroe stamp 166 the christmas meeting 1888 - the advertisment.jpg
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- inception
- 1878-01-05
- title
- Dimmalætting
- language of work or name
- Faroese
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2013-09-13
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thumb | rightDimmalætting (Faroese for 'Dawn') is the oldest and largest newspaper of the Faroe Islands and is based in Tórshavn.
The first edition of the Dimma, as it is commonly known, appeared (after a test issue on December 8, 1877) on January 5, 1878. it had a print run of 8,500 copies (in 1991 it was 13,300) and appeared five days weekly then, as of 2014 it appears once weekly, every Friday. As an answer to competing papers, the Wednesday edition is delivered free of charge to all households. Since April 5, 2005 one issue a week has been distributed to all households in the country free of charge.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dimmalætting” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.