• The Province of Vaasa (Finnish: Vaasan lääni [ˈʋɑːsɑn ˈlæːni]; Swedish: Vasa län, Finland Swedish: [ˈvɑːsɑ ˈleːn], Sweden Swedish: [ˈvɑ̂ːsa ˈlɛːn]) was...
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    The Province of Uusimaa (Finnish: Uudenmaan lääni, Swedish: Nylands län, Russian: Губерния У́усимаа) was a province of Finland from 1831 to 1997. It was...
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  • Vaasa, Finland University of Valladolid, Castile-León, Spain Veiga de Almeida University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Portuguese: Universidade Veiga de Almeida)...
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    Jaakko Forsman (category People from Vaasa Province (Grand Duchy of Finland))
    Jaakko Forsman (1839, Vähäkyrö — 1899) was a Finnish jurist and politician, as well as a leading activist of the Fennoman movement. In 1857, he attained...
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  • Janakkala, Tavastia Proper Visulahti, Mikkeli, South Savonia Wasalandia, Vaasa, Ostrobothnia (Closed in 2015) Linnanmäki, Helsinki Planet FunFun (aka:...
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    Jarl Hemmer (category People from Vaasa Province (Grand Duchy of Finland))
    Literature in six consecutive years. Hemmer was born into a wealthy family, from Vaasa, Finland. His first collection of poems was called Rösterna (The Voices)...
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  • Ernst Evald Bergroth (category People from Vaasa Province (Grand Duchy of Finland))
    Ernst Evald Bergroth (April 1, 1857 – November 22, 1925) was a Finnish physician and amateur entomologist. Bergroth was born on April 1, 1857, in Jakobstad...
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    port. From here a ferry line connects it with the neighbouring city of Vaasa (Swedish: Vasa) in Finland. The near connections to Finland affects the...
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    Isak Penttala (category People from Vaasa Province (Grand Duchy of Finland))
    of Finland. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he represented Vaasa Province South between March 1927 and July 1951. Prior to being elected, he was...
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  • to exist as a province of the new autonomic Grand Duchy of Finland until 1831, when it was split to Häme Province and Uusimaa Province. Arvid Göransson...
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    UCLouvain (or Université catholique de Louvain, French for Catholic University of Louvain, officially in English the University of Louvain) is Belgium's...
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    The Governor (Finnish: Maaherra, or Swedish: Landshövding) of a province of Finland headed the activities of the State Provincial Office (Finnish: Lääninhallitus...
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    Finland, in absolute numbers, are those of Helsinki, Espoo, Porvoo and Vaasa, where they constitute significant minorities. In Helsinki, currently 5...
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    State in Saint Petersburg. In 1833 he was appointed governor of the Vaasa Province and soon after of Viipuri and Savonlinna County. From 1839 until his...
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    Sorsasalo, Kuopio Teivo, Ylöjärvi (near Tampere) Tornio Track, Tornio Vaasa Track, Vaasa Vermo, Espoo (near Helsinki) Half of European horse racing venues...
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  • Michael Ullanlinna (Swedish: Ulrikasborg) – Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden Vaasa (Swedish: Vasa) – King Gustav I of Sweden Albertville – Charles Albert of...
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  • Ostrobothnia, the former municipality of Vähäkyrö is now an exclave of the city of Vaasa. In Kymenlaakso, the municipality of Iitti has a small exclave called Supinkulma...
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    removed in 2020. It is now known as Seppänen [ceb; fi; sv]. A neighborhood in Vaasa called Neekerikylä - so named because the houses were first painted with...
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    minoriteter [Seminar on social and health service for linguistic minorities]. Vaasa, Finland: Åbo Akademi University. Geli, Carles (8 July 2019). "El uso del...
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  • Women's suffrage (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    elections, to appoint their wives to vote for them. In Vaasa in Finland (then a Swedish province), there was opposition against women participating in...
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    Archived from the original on 16 January 2013. "citypopulation.de", www.citypopulation.de, archived from the original on 5 November 2023, retrieved 5 November...
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    Matteo (16 January 2015). "Sciences Po Paris : 64% des admis viennent de province". Le Monde (in French). ISSN 1950-6244. Archived from the original on...
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    Laihia (category Western Finland Province geography stubs)
    villages. Laihia is within the economical region of the neighbouring city Vaasa. The municipality is unilingually Finnish. Only 84 people speak Swedish...
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    Eero Nelimarkka (category People from Vaasa Province (Grand Duchy of Finland))
    October 1891 at Vaasa, the son of Erkki Nelimarkka, a tailor, and Maria Nelimarkka (née Koivukangas). In 1912 Nelimarkka studied at Académie de la Grande Chaumière...
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    Tromsø, Norway (Dfc) Tsetserleg, Arkhangai Province, Mongolia (Dwc) Umeå, Sweden (Dfc, bordering on Dfb) Vaasa, Finland (Dfc) Valle Nevado, Chile (Dfc)...
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  • Finland was raised again. A few interested people from the town Vaasa in Ostrobothnia province were able to join the Swedish Odd Fellow lodges until the Sovereign...
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    Kiel (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Sovetsk, Russia (1992) Stralsund, Germany (1987) Tallinn, Estonia (1986) Vaasa, Finland (1967) Germany portal Geography portal Kiel, Wisconsin Steenbek-Projensdorf...
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    southern Finland and Helsinki, but the white government continued in exile in Vaasa. This led to a short but bitter civil war. The Whites, backed by Imperial...
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  • War in 1918, Vaasa served as the temporary capital of White Finland when the Red Guards controlled the capital de jure, Helsinki. Vaasa continued to serve...
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  • with white lettering National routes are also green with white lettering Province owned roads are white with black lettering Municipality owned roads have...
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