Sermitsiaq

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The mountain Sermitsiaq, visible from most of Nuuk

Sermitsiaq (Saddle Mountain) is the name of a mountain near Nuuk^{[citation needed]} and the name of one of the two national newspapers in Greenland. The newspaper is named after the mountain.

[edit] The newspaper Sermitsiaq

The newspaper was published for the first time May 21, 1958 as a Kalaallisut language alternative to the Danish language newspaper Mikken. The two magazines were printed separately, with Mikken on Saturdays and Sermitsiaq on Mondays for about 6 months, until Mikken was published for the last time the 22nd of November same year. Sermitsiaq was first printed in both Danish and Kalaallisut the week before Mikken closed down.^{[citation needed]}

Sermitsiaq was a local newspaper distributed only in Nuuk city until around 1980 when the newspaper became national. The newspaper became increasingly politically oriented in the period around 1980, since Greenland was granted home rule in 1979.^{[citation needed]}

The newspaper is published every Friday.