" our language ") is the name used in Sweden for Finnish dialects spoken in the northernmost parts of the country around the valley of the Torne River.

Torne river and Torne valley near Övertorneå as seen from the Finnish side.

It is named after the Torne River flowing through the valley and into the Gulf of Bothnia.

* Nils Johan's genealogy site-An excellent related website is that of Nils Johan Fosli, a genealogist from Norway whose roots also lie in the Torne valley.

Torne river valley flag — Flag of Tornedalians on both sides of the Torne river.

The language border went west of the Torne Valley area, so a part of today's Sweden was historically Finnish speaking.

Since the area east of Torne River was ceded to Russia in 1809, the language developed in partial isolation from standard Finnish.

People with Meänkieli-speaking roots are often referred to as Tornedalians although the Finnish-speaking part of Norrbotten is a far larger area than the Tornio ( the Meänkieli and Finnish name for Torne ) River Valley ; judging by the names of towns and places, it stretches as far west as the city of Gällivare.

The Torne rivershed has a total area of or ( see sidebar ).

At Junosuando, the Torne river loses 56 % of its water to the Tärendö River in one of the four bifurcations in the watershed area.

Although confusing from a geographic point of view, this whole area is often referred to as Torne Valley.

The Tornedalians are descendants of Scandinavian and Fennoscandian Finnic Kvens as well as Finns who at some point in history settled to the area of today's Northern Sweden and the Torne Valley region near the present-day Swedish-Finnish border and west from there.

Despite the Finnish and Russian demands of including much of today's Swedish Torne River Valley territory into the autonomous Russian Grand Duchy of Finland, the area remained part of the Kingdom of Sweden as a result of the peace treaty signed between Russia and Sweden in 1809.

The River Don, River Torne and River Idle were re-routed and re-channelled, and although there were some flaws in the initial scheme, and considerable social unrest, including damage of the drainage works, the unrest was finally resolved in 1719, and the agriculture of the area prospered.

It is the second longest river by watershed area or length in Norrbotten County ( after the Torne River and very slightly ahead of the Kalix River, which is 460. 65 km long ), but is the largest by average discharge.

First heard of in the Domesday Book, listed as Torne, eventually a Baron Gumbaud settled in the area, adding his title to the original, and thus emerged its present name.

This changed when the eastern half of Sweden ( Finland ) was lost to Russia, and the new border was drawn at Torne River.

He was chosen in the same year to accompany Pierre Louis Maupertuis and Alexis Clairaut on their geodetical expedition for measuring a meridian arc of approximately one degree's length to Torne Valley in Lapland.

One expedition under Pierre Louis Maupertuis ( 1736 – 37 ) was sent to Torne Valley ( as far North as possible ).

Sandels's action was only a prelude to the peace negotiations that opened in August and resulted in the Treaty of Fredrikshamn ( September 17 ), in which Sweden ceded the whole of Finland and part of Lapland east of the Torne River ( part of Norrlands län ) to Russia.

The first Indian movie released in India was Shree pundalik a silent film in Marathi by Dadasaheb Torne on 18 May 1912 at ' Coronation Cinematograph ', Mumbai.

A drainage channel called the New Idle River was constructed in a straight line from Idle Stop to Dirtness, crossing the Torne by a tunnel at Tunnel Pits, about halfway along its course.

From Dirtness, it was routed to the east to Hirst, where it was joined by the new course of the Torne, and the two channels ran parallel to an outfall at Althorpe on the Trent.

One expedition was sent to Ecuador to perform measurements near the Equator, another one was sent to Torne Valley to perform measurements near the Arctic Circle.

The expedition to Torne Valley was led by Pierre Louis Maupertuis.

To the south of it was a twelve-arched viaduct known as Crowle Arches, which crossed the Hatfield Waste Drain, the North Engine Drain, the River Torne and the A18 road, and beyond that, another nine-arched viaduct spanning the South Engine Drain and the Folly Drain, beyond which the railway started to descend to return to ground level.

# The southern arm of the River Torne was blocked.

This ran parallel to the Torne River and the water was sluiced into the River Trent at Althorpe.

In 1917 a railway between Boden and Haparanda was finished, and two years later a bridge was built over the river Torne to connect Haparanda with the Finnish town of Tornio.

As an example, on the Swedish side of the Torne Valley one still makes types of food, such as rieska, that are usually considered Finnish rather than Swedish.

Around one year before, Ramchandra Gopal ( known as Dadasaheb Torne ) had filmed a stage drama called Pundalik and shown it in the same theater.

It starts from the shores of Torne träsk, one of Sweden's largest lakes where the village of Abisko is located, and extends some 15 kilometres to the south-west.

Governors of Norrland County and Västerbotten County ruled in 1634-1809 also northern part of Finnish Lapland and eastern part of Torne Valley.

The Torne River (,,,, ), is a river in northern Sweden and Finland.

The settlement began around the northern end of the Gulf of Bothnia and along the river valleys of the River Kalix ( Kainuunväylä in Finnish ), Torne River, and Kemijoki River.

* June 19 – French Academy of Sciences expedition led by Pierre Louis Maupertuis, with Anders Celsius, begins work on measuring a meridian arc in the Torne Valley of Finland.

Memory of the early Finnish settlement lived on in place names near the Delaware River such as Finland ( Marcus Hook ), Torne, Lapland, Finns Point and Mullica.

Vivid water of the Torne River between Sweden and Finland.

* June 19-French Academy of Sciences expedition led by Pierre Louis Maupertuis, with Anders Celsius, begins work on measuring a meridian arc in the Torne Valley of Finland.

Kolari is a municipality of Finland at the Swedish border, which follows the Torne River, the longest free-flowing river in Europe.

From this point, the border with Finland is formed by the Torne river.

At Karungi, the Liakanjoki departs from the Torne river and flows to the Gulf of Bothnia independently in Finland.

The Torne Valley or Torne River Valley ( Finnish: Tornionlaakso, Swedish: Tornedalen ) lies at the border of Sweden and Finland.