that Russia keep Åland unfortified and neutralized. The demilitarization of Åland continued even after the First World War, when Åland was finally confirmed...
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neutral position of Åland dates back to the Paris Peace Treaty after the Åland War in the 1850s. The autonomous status of Åland was affirmed by a decision...
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The Åland Islands dispute (Swedish: Ålandsfrågan, lit. 'Åland question') was one of the issues put up for arbitration by the League of Nations on its...
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The Invasion of Åland was a 1918 military campaign of World War I in Åland, Finland. The islands, still hosting Soviet Russian troops, were first invaded...
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sections of the Finnish coast. These battles are known in Finland as the Åland War. Russia depended on imports—both for its domestic economy and for the...
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The Åland convention, refers to two conventions regarding the demilitarization and neutralization of Åland. The Åland convention of 1856 was signed on...
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and Åland, where a Swedish flotilla, supported by the local population, compelled the small Russian force left on the main island of Fasta Åland to surrender...
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Swedish and German forces occupied the Åland Islands. After the Finnish Civil War, Åland joined Finland following the Åland Convention of 1921. Around 18,000...
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The Opium Wars (simplified Chinese: 鸦片战争; traditional Chinese: 鴉片戰爭; pinyin: Yāpiàn zhànzhēng) were two conflicts waged between China and Western powers...
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The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those...
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The Russo-Japanese War was fought between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan during 1904 and 1905 over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and...
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The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) was a global conflict involving most of the European great powers, fought primarily in Europe and the Americas. One of...
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The War of Jenkins' Ear (Spanish: Guerra del Asiento, lit. 'War of the Agreement') was a conflict lasting from 1739 to 1748 between Britain and Spain...
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the exchange of information and on defence planning (the joint defence of Åland, for example), rather than on military exercises or on the stockpiling and...
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Battle of Bomarsund (redirect from Bomarsund, Aland)
during the Crimean War. Other VC recipients for action in the Baltic Sea: John Bythesea – 1854; Åland Islands William Johnstone – 1854; Åland Islands George...
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Sund is a municipality of Åland. It is an autonomous territory of Finland, and one of the official 27 national landscapes of Finland. The municipality...
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Wars comprise: The Russo-Swedish War (1554–1557), "First Northern War" according to Arvo Viljanti The Livonian War (1558–1583), "First Northern War"...
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The Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de Malvinas) was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British dependent...
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The New Zealand Wars (Māori: Ngā pakanga o Aotearoa) took place from 1845 to 1872 between the New Zealand colonial government and allied Māori on one side...
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The Russian Civil War was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the overthrowing of the liberal-democratic Russian Provisional...
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Anglo-Maratha War (1817–1819) was the final and decisive conflict between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire in India. The war left the...
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The Bitch Wars, or Suka Wars (Russian: сучьи войны, romanized: suchyi voyny or in singular: Russian: сучья война, romanized: suchya voyna) were armed confrontations...
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The War of 1812 was fought by the United States and its allies against the United Kingdom and its allies in North America. It began when the United States...
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The First Opium War (Chinese: 第一次鴉片戰爭; pinyin: Dìyīcì yāpiàn zhànzhēng), also known as the Anglo-Chinese War, was a series of military engagements fought...
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The Second Chechen War (Russian: Втора́я чече́нская война́, Chechen: ШолгIа оьрсийн-нохчийн тӀом, lit. 'Second Russian-Chechen War') took place in Chechnya...
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a fallback Russo-Persian Wars – Series of conflicts between 1651 and 1828 Swedish intervention in Persia Invasion of Åland "Новгородская летопись". krotov...
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The Mahdist War (Arabic: الثورة المهدية, romanized: ath-Thawra al-Mahdiyya; 1881–1899) was a war between the Mahdist Sudanese, led by Muhammad Ahmad bin...
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The First Chechen War, also referred to as the First Russo-Chechen War, was a struggle for independence waged by the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria against...
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The Anglo-Zanzibar War was a military conflict fought between the United Kingdom and the Sultanate of Zanzibar on 27 August 1896. The conflict lasted...
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The Tajikistani Civil War, also known as the Tajik Civil War, began in May 1992 and ended in June 1997. Regional groups from the Garm and Gorno-Badakhshan...
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