Hólar
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Hólar (; also Hólar í Hjaltadal ) is a small community in the Skagafjörður district of northern Iceland.
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- Settlement.official_name
- Hólar
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
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- Church_in_Hólar_with_Hólar_University_College_in_the_background.jpg
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- Hólar Cathedral
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- Location of the Municipality of Skagafjörður
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- Iceland
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- Country
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- Constituency
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- Northwest Constituency
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- Region
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- Northwestern Region
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- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Skagafjörður
- Settlement.population_as_of
- January 2011
- Settlement.population_total
- 89
- Settlement.postal_code_type
- Post code
- Settlement.postal_code
- 551
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Official name
- Hólar
- Country
- Iceland
- Located in
- Skagafjörður
- Population
- 94
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Official website
- www.holar.is
- Image
- Church in Hólar with Hólar University College in the background.jpg
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- Hólar í Hjaltadal
- native label
- Hólar
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Hólar (; also Hólar í Hjaltadal ) is a small community in the Skagafjörður district of northern Iceland.
==Location== Hólar is in the valley Hjaltadalur, some from the national capital of Reykjavík. It has a population of around 100. It is the site of the main campus of Hólar University College, a site of historical buildings and archeological excavation, home to the Center for the history of the Icelandic horse, Hólar Cathedral, and the turf house Nýibær.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hólar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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