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    Senate of Finland (Finnish: Suomen senaatti, Swedish: Senaten för Finland) combined the functions of cabinet and supreme court in the Grand Duchy of Finland...
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    initiative, the Grand Duchy's autonomy expanded until the end of the 19th century. The Senate of Finland, founded in 1809, became the most important governmental...
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    Orpo of the National Coalition Party. Orpo was sworn in on 20 June 2023. In 1918, the Senate of Finland was transformed into the Government of Finland, and...
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    a second chamber of a legislature: The Senate of Finland was, until 1918, the executive branch and the supreme court. The Senate of Latvia (lv) fulfilled...
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  • list of prime ministers of Finland since the establishment of that office in 1917. In 1918, the Finnish Senate was transformed into the Finnish Government...
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    Senate Square (Finnish: Senaatintori, Swedish: Senatstorget) presents Carl Ludvig Engel's architecture as a unique allegory of political, religious, scientific...
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    cause for Finnish despair. The manifesto was forced through the Finnish senate by the deciding vote of the senate president, an appointee of the tsar—and...
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    The Parliament of Finland (Finnish: Suomen eduskunta [ˈsuo̯men ˈeduskuntɑ]; Swedish: Finlands riksdag [ˈfinlɑnds ˈriksdɑː(ɡ)]) is the unicameral and supreme...
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    Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia...
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    The politics of Finland take place within the framework of a parliamentary representative democracy. Finland is a republic whose head of state is President...
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    Carl Erik Mannerheim (category Finnish people of Swedish descent)
    January 1837) was a Swedish–Finnish soldier, statesman and member of the Senate of Finland as its first Vice Chairman of the Economic Division, an office...
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    chairman of the Senate of Finland, the government in the autonomous grand duchy. The chairmanship he represented, with two votes in the Senate, belonged...
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    restricting Finnish autonomy. Russia demanded higher payments and the Senate of Finland was replaced with the admiral-senate or saber-senate. Nicholas II...
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    the Parliament of Finland on 6 December 1917. It declared Finland a fully independent nation, ending its status as Grand Duchy of Finland, an autonomous...
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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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    Helsinki (redirect from Capital of Finland)
    capital and most populous city in Finland. It is on the shore of the Gulf of Finland and is the seat of southern Finland's Uusimaa region. About 675,000 people...
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    Vaasa (redirect from Vaasa, Finland)
     'city of Nicholas') is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Ostrobothnia. It is located on the west coast of the country, on the Gulf of Bothnia...
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    first senate, who were opposed to the "Reds", or the Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic, during the Finnish Civil War or the 'Finnish War of Independence'...
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    Anders Wirenius (category CS1 Finnish-language sources (fi))
    August 1919) was a Finnish politician. Born in Saint Petersburg, he was twice vice-chairman of the Home Office of the Senate of Finland in 1909 and in 1917...
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    The history of Finland begins around 9,000 BC during the end of the last glacial period. Stone Age cultures were Kunda, Comb Ceramic, Corded Ware, Kiukainen...
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    Mannerheim (1759–1837) - Finnish soldier, statesman and member of the Senate of Finland Carl Gustaf Mannerheim (1797–1854) - Finnish entomologist and governor...
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    Diet of Finland (Finnish Suomen maapäivät, later valtiopäivät; Swedish Finlands Lantdagar), was the legislative assembly of the Grand Duchy of Finland from...
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  • Vilhelm Snellman – member of the Senate of Finland, Fennoman philosopher, author, and journalist (1806–1881) Alexander Stubb – member of European Parliament...
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  • Oskari Tokoi (category Speakers of the Parliament of Finland)
    was a Finnish socialist who served as a leader of the Social Democratic Party of Finland. In 1917 Tokoi acted as a Chairman of the Senate of Finland and...
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    the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the outbreak of World War II, and ended...
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    overlooks the Senate Square in central Helsinki, Finland. The Government Palace houses the Prime Minister's Office, the Office of the Chancellor of Justice...
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    Kai Setälä (category CS1 Finnish-language sources (fi))
    (1864–1935), the Counsellor of State, the Chairman of the Senate of Finland and co-author of the Finnish Declaration of Independence. Setälä's parents were pharmacist...
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    Party of Finland (SDP, Finnish: Suomen sosialidemokraattinen puolue [ˈsuo̯men ˈsosiɑ(ː)liˌdemokrɑːtːinen ˈpuo̯lue], nicknamed: demarit in Finnish; Swedish:...
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    should have power in Finland, on 4 December 1917, the Senate of Finland, led by Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, finally made a Declaration of Independence which...
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    Red Guards (Finnish: Punakaarti, IPA: [ˈpunɑˌkɑːrti]; Swedish: Röda gardet) were the paramilitary units of the labour movement in Finland during the early...
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