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    The Diet of Porvoo (Finnish: Porvoon maapäivät, or unhistorically Porvoon valtiopäivät; Swedish: Borgå lantdag; Russian: Боргоский сейм), was the summoned...
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    of the country, on the Gulf of Finland. Porvoo lies in the eastern part of the Uusimaa region. The population of Porvoo is approximately 52,000, while...
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    65750 Porvoo Cathedral (Finnish: Porvoon tuomiokirkko; Swedish: Borgå domkyrka) is a cathedral of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland in Porvoo, Finland...
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    Porvoo (Borgå) by Tsar Alexander I, the new Grand Duke of Finland, between 25 March and 19 July 1809. The central event at Porvoo was the taking of the...
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  • the four estates of occupied Finland were assembled at the Diet of Porvoo on 29 March 1809 to pledge allegiance to Emperor Alexander I of Russia, who had...
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    the four Estates of occupied Finland were assembled at the Diet of Porvoo on 29 March 1809 to pledge allegiance to Tsar Alexander I of Russia, who in return...
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    Swedish law of 1723. However, after the Diet of Porvoo, the Diet of Finland was reconvened only in 1863. In the meantime, for a period of 54 years, the...
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    established on August 18, 1809, when Tsar Alexander I of Russia summoned the Diet of Porvoo and directed the Diet to draw up regulations for a Government Council...
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    1812 as Viborg County. Together with the Diet of Porvoo (1809), and the Oath of the Sovereign, the Treaty of Fredrikshamn constitutes the cornerstone...
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    Ulla Möllersvärd (category Mistresses of Alexander I of Russia)
    known for the occasion, where she danced with Tsar Alexander I of Russia at the Diet of Porvoo in 1809, which was repeated at Mäntsälä some days later and...
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    Finland (redirect from Republic of Finland)
    recognised by the Diet of Porvoo. This situation continued until the end of 1917. In 1812, Alexander I incorporated the Russian province of Vyborg into the...
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    Treaty of Fredrikshamn Sweden surrendered Finland to Russia, and the Diet of Porvoo pledged loyalty to Russian Emperor Alexander I. In turn, Alexander I...
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    nicknamed "the Blessed", was Emperor of Russia from 1801, the first king of Congress Poland from 1815, and the grand duke of Finland from 1809 to his death...
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    with the Diet of Porvoo, when Finland, which at that time was part of the Russian Empire, gained autonomy in the form of the Grand Duchy of Finland. The...
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    locations. The Diet of Finland, the predecessor of the Parliament, was tetracameral and did not regularly meet together. The Diet of Porvoo (1809) met in...
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    of the throne of Emperor Alexander I used in the Diet of Porvoo from 1809. 1825–1855: The coat of arms of Finland was part of the Second variant of the...
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    again conquered by the armies of Tsar Alexander I. The four Estates of occupied Finland were assembled at the Diet of Porvoo on 29 March 1809, to pledge...
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    for his Diet of Porvoo painting. The piece he did not sell himself, but his widow sold it, and it is now located in the Diocesan Office of Porvoo. He died...
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    the Diet of Porvoo and swearing their oaths of loyalty to the Russian Emperor Alexander I as the Grand Duke of Finland. Alexander was the grandson of the...
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    Carl Erik Mannerheim (category Finnish people of Swedish descent)
    Wright and maternal aunt of Aurora Karamzin. In 1809 Mannerheim became a member of the Diet of Porvoo and took part in the creation of Grand Duchy's institutions...
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    1809 Diet of Porvoo when the Grand Duchy of Finland was formally created. The Finnish nobility was formally organized in 1818. Families of Finnish nobility...
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    The church is a member of the World Council of Churches and the Conference of European Churches. It is also a member of the Porvoo Communion and is actively...
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    The Eura Dress [fi] of the Eura Matron [fi] Perniö Dress [fi] Grand furniture and paintings Alexander I's seat used at Diet of Porvoo, originally commissioned...
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    Anjala conspiracy (category History of Kymenlaakso)
    The idea of a separate Finnish nation was subsequently echoed by Alexander I at the Diet of Porvoo, when he formed the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland...
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    Adolf of Sweden; he is confined in Gripsholm Castle. March 29 At the Diet of Porvoo, Finland's four Estates pledge allegiance to Alexander I of Russia...
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    Finland under Swedish rule (category Medieval history of Sweden)
    Naantali, Rauma, Ulvila and Porvoo. Faraway trade in Finland and other Nordic countries in the medieval times was mostly in the hands of German Hanseatic League...
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    late. Swedish and Finnish heraldry have a shared history prior to the Diet of Porvoo in 1809; these, together with Danish heraldry, were heavily influenced...
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    De Geer family (redirect from House of Geer)
    Wilhelm De Geer [su; sv] (1750–1820), Finnish lantmarskalk of the Noble estate at the Diet of Porvoo. Charlotta Aurora De Geer (1779–1834), Swedish salonist...
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  • the Grand Duchy of Finland. The translation used at the time for the speech emperor Alexander I of Russia gave at the Diet of Porvoo in 1809 in French...
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    the Ministry of Justice, the FM is one of the two oldest ministries in Finland. Finland’s fiscal autonomy started in the Diet of Porvoo in 1809, when...
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