In his analysis of Aalto, Giedion gave primacy to qualities that depart from direct functionality, such as mood, atmosphere, intensity of life and even national characteristics, declaring that " Finland is with Aalto wherever he goes ".

The brown bear's principal range includes parts of Russia, the United States ( mostly in Alaska ), Canada, the Carpathian region ( especially Romania, but also Ukraine, Slovakia, Poland and so on ), the Balkans, Sweden and Finland, where it is the national animal.

In Finnish, parallels are drawn between the figure and the national personification of Finland – Finnish Maiden ( Suomi-neito ) – and the country as a whole can be referrerd in the Finnish language by her name.

Finland elects on national level a head of state — the president — and a legislature.

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.

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.

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.

In the Treaty of Versailles ( 1919 ) the winners imposed relatively hard conditions on Germany and recognised the new states ( such as Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Austria, Yugoslavia, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania ) created in central Europe from the defunct German, Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires, supposedly out of national self-determination.

The GDP growth rate has since been one of the highest of OECD countries and Finland has topped many indicators of national performance.

It is regarded as the national epic of Finland and is one of the most significant works of Finnish literature.

During the second russification period, at the start of the First World War, the Dowager Empress, travelling by her special train through Finland to Saint Petersburg, expressed her continued disapprobation for the russification of Finland by having an orchestra of a welcoming committee to play the March of the Pori Regiment and the Finnish national anthem " Maamme ", which at the time were under the explicit ban from Franz Albert Seyn, the Governor-General of Finland.

Since prehistoric times, long before the concept of national borders existed, the Sami people of Arctic Europe lived and worked in an area that stretches over the regions now known as Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Russian Kola Peninsula.

Halonen was a surprising candidate as she didn't represent many traditional values: She was known as a left-wing social democratic party member, who lived in a domestic partnership, was a single parent and had resigned from the national church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland.

By 2010, such parties ( albeit often significant differences between them ) were present in the national parliaments of Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Austria, Italy and Greece.

* August 1 – The Helsinki Accords, which officially recognize Europe's national borders and respect for human rights, are signed in Finland.

In Finland, in 1995, the Finnish Green Party was the first European Green party to be part of a national Cabinet.

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.

The city has two football teams playing at the top national level, the Veikkausliiga: FC Inter and TPS, which is one of the oldest football clubs in Finland.

Finnish born nationalist and linguist Kaarle Akseli Gottlund ( 1796 – 1875 ) expressed his desire for a Finnish epic in a similar vein to The Iliad, Beowulf and the Nibelungenlied compiled from the various poems and songs spread over most of Finland.

The name Tapiola is derived from Tapio, who is the forest god of Finnish mythology, especially as expressed in the Kalevala, the national epic of Finland.

It is said that his regnal name was to be Väinö I of Finland (' Väinö ' obviously referring to Väinämöinen, one of the main characters in the Finnish national epic Kalevala ), but due to there not being contemporary records of this name it is widely considered a popular misbelief, probably created by columnist Väinö Nuorteva.

Elias Lönnrot, the compiler of the Finnish national epic Kalevala, gave the city a nickname " Athens of Finland ".

The national epic of Finland John Martin Crawford ( scholar ) | John Martin Crawford, 1888

The album contains eleven songs, including one instrumental and one sung in Finnish language to celebrate Finland and the Finnish epic poem, the Kalevala.

Many of these myths were later written down in the 19th century as the Kalevala, which was created to be a national epic of Finland by Elias Lönnrot.

In the Kalewala and the Traditional Poetry of the Finns ( English translation by IM Anderton, 1898 ) he discusses the national epic of Finland and its heroic songs, with a view to solving the problem whether an epic could be composed by the interweaving of such national songs.

There is no sacred text in Finnish Neopaganism, such as the Christian Bible, but the folk epic of Finland, the Kalevala is sometimes used as it is a collection of folk beliefs describing the gods and goddesses.

“ By 1940 when he finally published his epic history of socialism, To the Finland Station, seven years in the making, he had completely repudiated Russian socialism .”

The Tales of Ensign Stål ( Swedish original title: Fänrik Ståls sägner, Finnish: Vänrikki Stoolin tarinat, or year 2007 translation Vänrikki Stålin tarinat ) is an epic poem written in Swedish by the Finland-Swedish author Johan Ludvig Runeberg, the national poet of Finland.

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

During the time he was compiling The Kalevala he was the district health officer based in Kajaani responsible for the whole Kainuu region in the eastern part of what was then the Grand Duchy of Finland.

Before the 18th century the Kalevala poetry was common throughout Finland and Karelia but in the 18th century it began to disappear in Finland, first in western Finland, because European rhymed poetry became more common in Finland.

There are two major traditions of folk music in Finland, namely, music of the Kalevala form, and Nordic folk music or pelimanni music ( North Germanic spelman, " player of music ").

Estonia and Finland both have national epics based on interconnected forms of runo-song, Kalevipoeg and Kalevala, respectively.

Arndt Juho Pekurinen ( August 29, 1905 in Juva, Finland – November 5, 1941 in Kalevala district, Soviet Union, now Russia ) was a Finnish pacifist and conscientious objector.

The poem, following the traditional Kalevala metre, has survived as several 17th and 18th century literations from various parts of Finland.

Karelians live, and did even more so before Stalinism and the Great Purges, also in vast areas east of Finland ( in Eastern Karelia, not marked on the map to the right ), where folklore, language and architecture during the 19th century was in the center of the Finns ' interest ( see Karelianism ), representing a " purer " Finnish culture than that of Southern and Western Finland, which had been for thousands of years in more contact with ( or " contaminated by ") Germanic and Scandinavian culture, of which the Kalevala and Finnish Art Nouveau are expressions.

Much of the music of Finland is influenced by traditional Karelian melodies and lyrics, as comprised in the Kalevala.

This flag, called the Dannebrog, inspired the cross design of the other Nordic countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, and regional Scandinavian flags for the Faroe Islands, Åland, Scania and Bornholm, as well as flags for the non-Scandinavian Shetland and Orkney.

At the age of 15, Nurmi rekindled his interest in athletics after being inspired by the performances of Hannes Kolehmainen, who was said to " have run Finland onto the map of the world " at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

The ideology of Karelianism inspired Finnish artists and researchers, who believed that the Orthodox Karelians had retained elements of an archaic, original Finnish culture which had disappeared from Finland.

The SIG Bergmann 1920 was used by Finland and Estonia, it was the inspiration for the Estonian Tallinn 1923 and the Finnish Suomi model 31, which in turn inspired Degtyarev for his PPD 34.

Many of the volunteer soldiers were inspired by the idea of Greater Finland.