The name " Finland " originally signified only the southwestern province that has been known as " Finland Proper " since the 18th century.

* the peoples of ( present-day ) Finland in 1154 ( Finland Proper ; disputed ), 1249?

Turku (; ) is a city on the southwest coast of Finland at the mouth of the Aura River, in the region of Finland Proper.

Originally, the word " Finland " referred only to the area around Turku ( hence the title, " Finland Proper " for the region ).

The Finnish national broadcaster, Yleisradio, screens local news, daily from Monday to Friday, for the Southwest Finland ( including the regions of Finland Proper and Satakunta ) residents.

Prior to this, a similar flag appeared in the Coat of Arms of King John III's duchy, which is today Finland Proper.

Finland Proper made commerce with Hanseatic cities, so it is plausible that the greeting was borrowed from their dialects.

While the word Finland originally meant only the southwestern part of what is now Finland ( Finland Proper ), the border of Norrland was drawn at the rivers Kaakamojoki or, later, Simojoki.

Historical province of Finland Proper ( borders of the modern provinces, i. e. regions with pink colour ) 150px

Finland Proper, (,, ), is a historical province in south western Finland, centred on the historic city of Turku ( Swedish: Åbo ) and the Turku Castle.

There is also a modern region by the name Finland Proper.

Finland Proper is not to be confused with Mainland Finland.

Finland Proper was comprised within the boundaries of the administrative province of Turku and Pori from 1917 to 1997 and that of Western Finland from 1997 to 2009, when the provinces of Finland were abolished.

His wife joined him at Toruń in December, but in April 1712 a peremptory ukase ordered him off to the army in Pomerania, and in the autumn of the same year he was forced to accompany his father on a tour of inspection through Finland.

Weil was mistakenly arrested in Finland at the outbreak of the Winter War suspected of spying ; however, accounts of his life having been at danger have been shown to be exaggerated.

Colonel Kari Renko, an engineer at the Finnish Air Force, was quoted by Helsingin Sanomat as saying about this failure, " The problem involves the rocket engines which have been in use for decades " and that Finland first was told of the problems by the Americans about two years ago.

Finland is the only Nordic country to have joined the Eurozone ; Denmark and Sweden have retained their traditional currencies, whereas Iceland and Norway are not members of the EU at all.

system of Finland, with the Baltic Sea at Vyborg ( Viipuri ).

Relations with Russia are cordial and common issues include bureaucracy ( particularly at the Vaalimaa border crossing ), airspace violations, development aid Finland gives to Russia ( especially in environmental problems that affect Finland ), and Finland's energy dependency on Russian gas and electricity.

Finland became a full member of the European Union ( EU ) in January 1995, at the same time acquiring observer status in the EU's defence arm, the Western European Union.

* 1808 – Without a previous declaration of war, Russian troops cross the border to Sweden at Abborfors in eastern Finland, thus beginning the Finnish war, in which Sweden will lose the eastern half of the country ( i. e. Finland ) to Russia.

While there are 54 members of the International Floorball Federation ( IFF ), the Czech Republic, Finland, Sweden and Switzerland have finished in most of the coveted 1st, 2nd and 3rd places at the World Floorball Championships.

The Czech Republic, Finland, Norway Sweden, and Switzerland remain the only five countries to have ever captured a medal at a World Championship event.

Father Christmas is often said to reside at the North Pole or less commonly, in the mountains of Korvatunturi in Lapland, Finland.

From 60, 000-80, 000 Russian soldiers remained stationed in Finland at the beginning of 1918, but the majority of them were demoralized and unwilling to fight, and were withdrawn from Finland by the end of March.

Although some 60, 000 to 80, 000 Russian soldiers of the former Tsar's army remained stationed in Finland at the start of the Civil War, the Russian contribution to the Red Guards ' cause was to prove negligible.

Finnish nationalists leaning on Germanism had been seeking German aid in freeing Finland from Russian hegemony since Autumn 1917, but the Germans did not want to prejudice their armistice and peace negotiations with Russia because of the pressure they were facing at the Western front.

At the beginning of the war the governments of White Finland and Red Finland officially opposed acts of terror, but such operational decisions were made at the military level.

In June 1995, Greenpeace took a trunk of a tree from the forests of the proposed national park of Koitajoki in Ilomantsi, Finland and put it on display at exhibitions held in Austria and Germany.

Finland has been continuously inhabited at least since the end of the last ice age, up to date.

According to the recently most widespread presumption, Finno-Ugric ( or Uralic ) languages were first spoken in Finland and the adjacent areas during the ( typical ) Comb Ceramic period, around 4000 BCE at the latest.

Hillforts spread over most of southern Finland at the end of the Iron and early Medieval Age.

It was the Swedish regent, Birger Jarl, who established Swedish rule in Finland through the Second Swedish Crusade, most often dated to 1249, which was aimed at Tavastians who had stopped being Christian again.

Flags were ordered flown at half staff throughout Finland.

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Flags is due to be released in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland on 7 November 2011.

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* 1944 – Continuation War: The Vyborg – Petrozavodsk Offensive, the largest offensive launched by Soviet Union against Finland during World War II, ends to a strategic stalemate.

This was during the Second World War, and he involved his students in designing low-cost, small-scale housing for the reconstruction of war-torn Finland.

Weil was in Finland when World War II broke out ; he had been traveling in Scandinavia since April 1939.

Military acts of Second World War end in Finland.

A bandy international between Finland and Norway in the Bandy World Championships # Bandy World Championships, women | 2004 Women's World Championships in Lappeenranta # Sports | Lappeenranta

* 1941 – World War II: The United Kingdom declares war on Finland in support of the Soviet Union during the Continuation War.

* 1941 – World War II: Great Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary and Romania.

After World War I, both Finland and Sweden laid claim to the islands, which are culturally more Swedish than Finnish.

* Finland in The World Factbook

In addition to the organisations already mentioned, Finland is a member of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, the International Finance Corporation, the International Development Association, the Bank for International Settlements, the Asian Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Council of Europe, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

* During World War II, the secret protocol in Molotov-Ribbentrop pact enabled Winter War ( 1939 – 40 ), a Soviet attack on Finland.

Discontent with Russian rule, Finnish national identity, and World War I eventually caused Finland to break away from Russia, taking advantage of the fact that Russia was withdrawing from World War I and a revolution was starting in earnest.

Finland fought the Winter War and the Continuation War against the Soviet Union in World War II.

Sweden men's national floorball team | Sweden celebrates their 2006 Men's World Floorball Championships | 2006 World Floorball Championship after defeating Finland men's national floorball team | Finland 7 – 6 in Overtime ( sports ) | Sudden Victory Overtime.

The conservative Finnish Senate attempted to establish a Finnish monarchy ruled by the House of Hesse ; after the defeat of Germany in the World War I, however, the Finnish interregnum of 1917-1919 ceased and Finland emerged as an independent, democratic republic, with a modernizing civil society.

When the conflict began, Lenin tried to commit the army on behalf of Red Finland, but the troops were demoralized, war-weary and home-sick after years of World War I.

There was also a number of neutral, or Third World, countries in between, including Finland, Yugoslavia, Sweden, Ireland, Austria and Switzerland.