Falkland is a burgh in Fife, Scotland at the foot of the Lomond Hills. ... Falkland Palace is a former Scottish royal palace in Falkland, Fife. ... West Falkland (shown in white) within the Falkland Islands group West Falkland, known as Gran Malvina in Spanish, is the second largest of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic, with an area of approximately 4,532 km² (5,413 km² including the adjacent small islands). ... East Falkland (beige) shown within Falkland Islands East Falkland, the largest of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic, has an area of 6,605 square kilometres. ... Falkland is a town located in Pitt County, North Carolina. ...
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Viscount Falkland, a Scottish peerage title, named after Falkland, Fife, Scotland.
Falklands War, a war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over the Falkland Islands.
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Falklands War, Anglo-Argentine conflict in the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) in 1982.
The Falklands War had its roots in an 18th-century Anglo-Spanish dispute over the ownership of the Falkland Islands, followed by a subsequent attempt by Argentina to settle them to establish rights to the former possessions of Spain.
The population was under 2,000 and slowly declining, as was the local economy which depended on the export of wool, and was dominated by the Falkland Islands Company (FIC).