The Finnish military administration in Eastern Karelia was an interim administrative system established in those areas of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist...
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The Finnish invasion of East Karelia was a military campaign in 1941. It was part of the Continuation War. Finnish troops occupied East Karelia and held...
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The Republic of Karelia, Karjala or Karelia (Russian: Каре́лия, Ка́рьяла; Karelian: Karjala) is a republic of Russia situated in the northwest of the country...
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within Finland. In 1941 Finland attacked the Soviet Union and proceeded to occupy East Karelia. The Finnish military administration in Eastern Karelia administered...
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Continuation War (redirect from Battle of Polyarnoe-Karelia)
Finnish public opinion favored the reconquest of Finnish Karelia. The government declared national defence to be its first priority, and military expenditure...
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control in Karelia in 1278, the region inhabited by speakers of Eastern Finnish dialects. Sweden however gained the control of Western Karelia with the...
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Karelians (category CS1 Finnish-language sources (fi))
to the Finnish Karelians, who are a subset of Finns. There were Karelian-speaking Karelians living in the easternmost parts of Finnish Karelia, known...
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Olli Paloheimo (category Biography articles needing translation from Finnish Wikipedia)
the Finnish Civil War on the White side. During the Continuation War, he was the director of the Finnish military administration in Eastern Karelia from...
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Guards in Finland. The Red and White Guards were dissolved, and would not come back officially until the Finnish Civil War. Following Finnish Independence...
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Finland is divided into 19 regions (Finnish: maakunta; Swedish: landskap) which are governed by regional councils that serve as forums of cooperation...
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made in 1323 between Sweden and Novgorod, was the first treaty that defined the eastern boundary of the Swedish realm and Finland at least for Karelia. The...
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The Finnish Civil War was a civil war in Finland in 1918 fought for the leadership and control of the country between White Finland and the Finnish Socialist...
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historical region of Finnish Karelia, as well as other parts of Eastern Finland, the old poem singing traditions were preserved better than in the western parts...
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Vyborg (redirect from Viipuri, Finland)
of the Russian Empire, Finland declared itself independent. During the Finnish Civil War, Vyborg was in the hands of the Finnish Red Guards until it was...
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SSR), Lithuania (became Lithuanian SSR), part of eastern Finland (became Karelo-Finnish SSR) and eastern Romania (became the Moldavian SSR and part of Ukrainian...
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Lake Onega (category Lakes of the Republic of Karelia)
the Republic of Karelia, Leningrad Oblast and Vologda Oblast. It belongs to the basin of the Baltic Sea, and is the second-largest lake in Europe after Lake...
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Pan-Finnicism (category CS1 Finnish-language sources (fi))
the Karelo-Finnish SSR was planned to encompass all of Finland and Karelia, given its Fennocentric naming. Pan-Finnicism in Modern Finland is not very...
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Guard (Finnish: Suojeluskunta, IPA: [ˈsuo̯jelusˌkuntɑ]; Swedish: Skyddskår; lit. 'Protection Corps'), was a voluntary militia, part of the Finnish Whites...
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Ingermanland Provisional Committee of Northern Ingria Karelia Union of White Sea Karelians Kuban Kuban Military Council Kuban Rada Latvia People's Council of...
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between Finnish regions of North Karelia and South Karelia and the Russian Republic of Karelia. Russia ceded Ingria and southern Karelia to Sweden in the...
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Between 1634 and 2009, Finland was administered as several provinces (Finnish: Suomen läänit, Swedish: Finlands län). Finland had always been a unitary...
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that resulted in a peace treaty on 13 March 1940, with Finland maintaining its independence but losing its eastern parts in Karelia. In June 1940 the...
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Reichskommissariat Moskowien (category Military history of Germany during World War II)
(included in the Reichskommissariat Ostland), and Eastern Karelia and the Kola peninsula, which were promised to Germany's ally Finland in 1941 for its...
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Membership in the church was obligatory, as was attendance at Divine Service. In newly conquered Finnish Karelia, the Lutheran Church suppressed the Eastern Orthodoxy...
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Counterfeits exist in large numbers. When Finland occupied Eastern Karelia in 1941, the military administration issued stamps of Finland overprinted "ITÄ-...
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Soviet Armed Forces (redirect from Soviet Military)
Isthmus and Ladoga Karelia. However, the Finnish Army continued the offensive past the 1939 border during the conquest of East Karelia, including Petrozavodsk...
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splendor never before seen in Finland. Before his marriage, he had a Finnish mistress, Kaarina Hannuntytär. Several Finnish and Swedish families claim...
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World War II evacuation and expulsion (category Articles with Finnish-language sources (fi))
first evacuation of Finnish Karelia was the resettlement of the population of Finnish Karelia and other territories ceded by Finland to the Soviet Union...
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Soviet partisans (section Finland and Karelia)
Andropov. In East Karelia, most partisans attacked Finnish military supply and communication targets, but inside Finland proper, and Finnish sources claim...
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Siege of Leningrad (category World War II aerial operations and battles of the Eastern Front)
Germans to bring their own land forces to Finnish lines. Baryshnikov explains that the Finnish military in the region was strategically dependent on the...
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