After peace talks between the Germans and the Finnish Reds were broken off on 11 April, the true battle for the capital of Finland began.

Between 1912 and 1971 the name of the town was officially spelled Hälsingborg ( rather like the region of Hälsingland but unlike neighbouring Danish Helsingør and the Finnish capital Helsingfors ( Helsinki )).

The Soviets demanded territories on the Karelian Isthmus, the islands of the Gulf of Finland and a military base near the Finnish capital Helsinki, which Finland rejected.

Even if Turku had no official capital status, both the short-lived institutions of Dukes and Governors-General of Finland usually had their Finnish residences there.

After the Finnish War, which ended when Sweden ceded Finland to Imperial Russia at the Treaty of Fredrikshamn in 1809, Turku became briefly the official capital, but soon lost the status to Helsinki, as Emperor Alexander I felt that Turku was too far from Russia and too aligned with Sweden to serve as the capital of the Grand Duchy of Finland.

In 1528 he followed his teacher to Turku ( Åbo ), the center of the Finnish side of the Swedish realm and the capital of the bishopric, where he became a scribe in bishop Martinus Skytte's office.

The discussions eventually created the so called Helsinki system, on which UEA and the national associations agreed at the congress of 1922 in the Finnish capital.

Both are particularly typical of Southwestern Finnish, but through internal migration to capital from there with the help of TV spread to rest of the language area.

The capital Helsinki ( in Swedish Helsingfors ) became predominantly Finnish speaking as recently as around 1900.

Suomenlinna, until 1918 Viapori ( Finnish ), or Sveaborg ( Swedish ), is an inhabited sea fortress built on six islands ( Kustaanmiekka, Susisaari, Iso-Mustasaari, Pikku-Mustasaari, Länsi-Mustasaari and Långören ), and which now forms part of the city of Helsinki, the capital of Finland.

Hamina is an old Finnish eastern trade capital, founded during the reign of the swedes.

Its name derives from that of the Finnish capital, Helsinki, where it is published.

Sweden's particular geographical position made her virtually invulnerable for six months out of the twelve, her Pomeranian possessions afforded her an easy ingress into the very heart of the moribund empire, while her Finnish frontier was not many leagues from the Russian capital.

St Petersburg is situated to the southeast, Finland's capital Helsinki is away and Lappeenranta, the nearest Finnish town, is away.

Before Finnish independence, political power in Finland was centralised in the capital and to the estates of the realm.

Mariehamn () is the capital of Åland, an autonomous territory under Finnish sovereignty.

Porkkala is furthermore located only from Helsinki, the Finnish capital, and a foreign power based there would be able to exert significant pressure on the Finnish government.

Finnish efforts to use submarines ( Vesikko and Saukko ) to sink Soviet capital ships failed.

When sovereignty over Finland was transferred from Sweden to Russia in 1809, the Russian government decided to relocate the Finnish capital from Turku ( in Swedish: Åbo ) – on the edge of the Baltic Sea – to Helsinki.

Hakaniemi ( Swedish Hagnäs ) is an unofficial district of Helsinki, the Finnish capital.

Viborg ( Finnish: Viipuri ) became the capital of the new Swedish province.

Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto ( February 3 1898, Kuortane – May 11 1976, Helsinki ) was a Finnish architect and designer.

Aalto also entered several architectural competitions for prestigious state public buildings, both in Finland and abroad, including the two competitions for the Finnish Parliamentary building in 1923 and 1924, the extension to the University of Helsinki in 1931, and the building to house the League of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1926-27.

Red Finland, later named the Finnish Socialist Workers ' Republic, was led by the People's Delegation, established on 28 January, in Helsinki.

Around 8, 000-9, 000 Finnish Reds defended Helsinki ; their best troops, however, were located in the more northern main front of the 1918 war.

German artillery bombarded and destroyed the Helsinki Workers Hall, and put out the Red lantern of the Finnish revolution.

* 1918 – Finnish Civil War: A group of Red Guards hangs a red lantern atop the tower of Helsinki Workers ' Hall to symbolically mark the start of the war.

The Finnish Meteorological Central Office ( 1881 ) was formed from part of Magnetic Observatory of Helsinki University.

The leader of the Leningrad Military District Andrei Zhdanov commissioned a celebratory piece from Dmitri Shostakovich, entitled " Suite on Finnish Themes " to be performed as the marching bands of the Red Army would be parading through Helsinki.

* 1939 – Winter War: Soviet forces cross the Finnish border in several places and bomb Helsinki and several other Finnish cities, starting the war.

In 1952, Nurmi was persuaded by Urho Kekkonen, Prime Minister of Finland and former chairman of the Finnish Athletics Federation, to carry the Olympic torch into the Olympic Stadium at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.

Helsinki: The Finnish Exegetical Society.

Between 1958 and 1991 Valmet procuded a large number of locomotives, diesel multiple units and electric multiple units for the Finnish State Railways, as well as a number of trams for Helsinki City Transport.

Zachris Topelius (; 14 January 1818 – 12 March 1898 ) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish author, journalist, historian, and rector of the University of Helsinki who wrote novels related to Finnish history in Swedish.

On June 14, 1940, while the world's attention was focused on the fall of Paris to Nazi Germany a day earlier, the Soviet military blockade of Estonia went into effect, and two Soviet bombers downed Finnish passenger airplane " Kaleva " flying from Tallinn to Helsinki carrying three diplomatic pouches from the U. S. legations in Tallinn, Riga and Helsinki.

Ties were reactivated with Finland, and in the 1960s, a ferry connection was opened from Tallinn to Helsinki and Estonians began watching Finnish television.

Magallanes ' chairman, Ernesto Alvear, attended a FIFA Congress held in Helsinki while the Finnish city was hosting the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Mika Pauli Häkkinen () ( born 28 September 1968 in Vantaa in the Helsinki metropolitan area ) is a Finnish racing driver and two-time Formula One World Champion.

However this ideal is not normally achieved in practice ; some languages ( such as Spanish and Finnish ) come close to it, while others ( such as English ) deviate from it to a much larger degree.

Like Agatha Christie, she isn't overly fond of the detective she is most famous for creating – in Ariadne's case the Finnish sleuth Sven Hjerson.

Adjacent to the pool is a sauna executed in a rustic style, alluding to both Finnish and Japanese precedents.

The design of the house is a synthesis of numerous stylistic influences, from traditional Finnish vernacular to purist modernism, as well as influences from English and Japanese architecture.

In Finnish, the ablative case is the sixth of the locative cases with the meaning " from, off, of ", e. g. pöytä – pöydältä " table – off from the table ".

The Finnish ablative is also used in time expressions to indicate start times as well as with verbs expressing feelings or emotions.

* In addition, Finnish, a Baltic-Finnic language, has calqued the Swedish term as Itämeri " East Sea ", disregarding the geography ( the sea is west of Finland ), though understandably since Finland was a part of Sweden from the Middle Ages until 1809.

At the semi-enclosed bays with major freshwater inflows, such as head of Finnish Gulf with Neva mouth and head of Bothnian gulf with close mouths of Lule, Tornio and Kemi, the salinity is considerably lower.

The uplift is about eight millimetres per year on the Finnish coast of the northernmost Gulf of Bothnia.

In Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish, besides the ordinal naming of centuries another system is often used based on the hundreds part of the year, and consequently centuries start at even multiples of 100.

The current Finnish cabinet is an even wider rainbow coalition of a total of six parties.

The conservative party in Finland is the National Coalition Party ( in Finnish Kansallinen Kokoomus, Kok ).

Quite a few of the names mean " five-six " in different languages, including both the robot Fisi ( fi-si ), the dead Lady Panc Ashash ( in Sanskrit " pañcha " is " five " and " ṣaṣ " is " six "), Limaono ( lima-ono, both in Hawaiian and / or Fijian ), Englok ( ng < sup > 5 </ sup >- luk < sup > 6 </ sup > < nowiki >- wikt: 六 # Cantonese | 六 < nowiki ></ nowiki >, in Cantonese ), Goroke ( go-roku < nowiki >- wikt: 六 # Japanese | 六 < nowiki ></ nowiki >, Japanese ) and Femtiosex (" fifty-six " in Swedish ) in " The Dead Lady of Clown Town " as well as the main character in " Think Blue, Count Two ", Veesey-koosey, which is an English transcription of the Finnish words " viisi " ( five ) and " kuusi " ( six ).

Finnish dog tags are also designed to be broken in two ; however, the only text on it is the personal identification number and the letters SF, which stands for Suomi Finland, within a tower stamped atop of the upper half.

Rosa has an especially large following in Finland, and in 1999, he created a special 32-page Donald, Scrooge, Gearloose & nephews strip for his Finnish fans ; Sammon Salaisuus ( translates to The secret of the Sampo, but it is officially named The Quest for Kalevala

One example is of a then Finnish mobile network company Sonera, which paid huge sums in German broadband auction then dubbed as 3G licenses.

The Finnish part lies entirely within Tornio in northern Finland, and is actually only long.

Like Finnish and Hungarian, Estonian is a somewhat agglutinative language, but unlike them, it has lost the vowel harmony of the hypothetical Proto-Uralic language, although in older texts the vowel harmony can still be recognized.

Unlike in standard German but like Finnish and Swedish ( when followed by ' r '), Ä is pronounced, as in English mat.

The country is ethnically homogeneous, the dominant ethnicity being Finnish people.

Finns enjoy individual and political freedoms, and suffrage is universal at 18 ; Finnish women became the first in the world to have unrestricted rights both to vote and to stand for parliament.

A Finnish peculiarity is the possibility of making exceptions to the constitution in ordinary laws that are enacted in the same procedure as constitutional amendments.