The Alþingi, Anglicized variously as Althing or Althingi, is the national
parliament - literally, the "all-
thing" - of
Iceland. It was founded in 930 at
Þingvellir, (the "assembly fields" or "Parliament Plains"), situated some 45 km east of what would later become the country's
capital,
Reykjavík, and this event marked the beginning of the
Icelandic Commonwealth. Even after Iceland's union with
Norway, the Althing still held its sessions at Þingvellir until 1799, when it was discontinued for some decades. It was restored in 1844 and moved to Reykjavík, where it has resided ever since. The present parliament building, the
Alþingishús, was built in 1881, of hewn Icelandic stone.
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