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    Examples include canals that connect valleys over a higher body of land, like Canal du Midi, Canal de Briare and the Panama Canal. A canal can be constructed...
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    Canal Finland Saimaa Canal Greece Corinthian Canal connected the Gulf of Corinth with the Aegean Sea, Pakistan Kachhi Canal Panama Panama Canal Poland Augustów...
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    of the canal. Suvorov military canals (Suvorov canals) are series of four open canals on Saimaa Lake in Finland. Apart from the Kutvele canal, the other...
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    and Narva rivers and the Saimaa Canal. The bay is also informally known as "the Marquis' Puddle" after Jean Baptiste, marquis de Traversay, the Russian...
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    "Periphery of a Genocide: Finland and the Holocaust". Oxford Academic. Saimaa Canal links two Karelias, thisisFINLAND at the web-site of Ministry for Foreign...
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  • Pothong River and Pothonggang Canal Sääminginsalo, Saimaa, Finland Barro Colorado Island, a former hilltop in the Panama Canal Zone, Panama René-Levasseur...
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  • by area List of islands by population Was a peninsula until 1906 when a canal was dug, separating it from the mainland. Records, Guinness World (August...
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     Finland : Port of Lappeenranta, Lappeenranta, South Karelia, Finland, on Lake Saimaa.  Hungary : Port of Budapest, Germany, on Danube  Ireland : Port of Waterford...
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    2007-10-17 at the Wayback Machine (Kekkonen suggest to be quiet) (in Finnish) Saimaa Canal links two Karelias – This is Finland Report: Unofficial offers by Russia...
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    Chesapeake & Delaware Canal (draft 10,7m) Paraguay River (almost 2,5m in middle river, 1,6m in upper river) Grand Canal (China) Saimaa Canal (Finland, max length...
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    be taken into account in the application of the Schengen rules. The Saimaa Canal and Värska–Ulitina road are two of several distinct travel arrangements...
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  • Bordertown (Finnish TV series) (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    – the third season will show what kind of city it is in winter]. Etelä-Saimaa (in Finnish). Retrieved 25 March 2019. Pham, Annika (13 December 2018)....
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    of the extensive Aralkum Desert. Sääminginsalo in Saimaa, Finland – 1,069 km2 (413 sq mi). Saimaa is sometimes referred to as a "lake system", and Sääminginsalo...
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    The 806 km long Pielisjoki system flows into the northeastern end of lake Saimaa. A ≈260 km course through this complex lake leads to the 156 km Vuoksi exit...
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    data), its industrial heartland along the River Vuoksi, half of the Saimaa canal that connected central Finland to the Gulf of Finland, and access to...
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    Porvoo, Vantaa and several other small rivers. The Saimaa Canal connects the gulf with the Saimaa lake. The International Hydrographic Organization defines...
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    part of the Saimaa Canal from Russia and is granted extraterritoriality rights. Russian visas are not required just to pass through the canal, but a passport...
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    Portugal on the shores of the Ipiranga Brook in São Paulo. 1856 – The Saimaa Canal is inaugurated. 1857 – Mountain Meadows massacre: Mormon settlers slaughter...
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  • the Shamian Island (Shameen Island) in Guangzhou (Canton) (1861–1946) Saimaa Canal: leased from Russia under 1963 and 2010 treaties in period of 50 years;...
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    RYA. ISBN 978-1-906435-20-2. MANUEL DE PREPARATION DU CRR MARITIME 2015 Agence nationale des fréquences Guide de radiotéléphonie pour la navigation intérieure...
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    Hells Angels MC criminal allegations and incidents (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    enkeleitä johdetaan ammattimaisesti Etelä-Saimaa (11 June 2013) "Helvetin enkeleitä johdetaan ammattimaisesti | Etelä-Saimaa". Archived from the original on June...
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  • of Taipalsaari is spread across several islands and peninsulas in Lake Saimaa; many are only accessible by road from its neighbouring municipalities....
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    development of shipping companies with significant financial resources. Canal barges, towed by draft animals on an adjacent towpath, contended with the...
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    is located on Spanish soil but rented by France since an 1856 treaty Saimaa Canal is partly located in Russia, but the Russian part is rented by Finland...
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    apartment was raided by the Black Hundreds. He subsequently fled to Lake Saimaa, Finland. In 1906, the Bolsheviks sent him on a fund-raising trip to the...
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    Republic of the Russian part of Saimaa canal and adjoining territory and on the conditions of navigation through Saimaa canal, article 6, paragraph 3". Border...
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    greater part of the rowing flotilla was in the skerries, the smaller on Lake Saimaa. At first the flotilla was commanded by Prince Nassau-Siegen, but in the...
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    Finland–NATO relations (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    weapons; Russian newspaper Izvestia reported that the Finnish lease on the Saimaa canal may be terminated. According to Hanna Smith [fi], Director of Research...
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  • List of oldest surviving ships (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Historic Ships". www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk. Retrieved 2022-01-06. "Canal boat lift takes place in conservation project". BBC News. 2017-01-26. Retrieved...
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  • Qazvin. 1381 (2002). ISBN 964-6228-61-5 p.311 Haji aqa Mohammadi, Abbas. Saimaa-yi ustaan-I Qazvain. Taha Publications. Qazvin. 1378 (1998). ISBN 964-6228-09-7...
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