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    Tornio (Finnish: [ˈtornio]; Swedish: Torneå; Northern Sami: Duortnus [ˈtuo̯rtnuːs]; Inari Sami: Tuárnus) is a city and municipality in Lapland, Finland...
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    The Battle of Tornio (October 1–8, 1944) was the first major engagement between Nazi Germany and Finland in the Lapland War; although hostilities had already...
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    Kemi-Tornio Airport (IATA: KEM, ICAO: EFKE; Finnish: Kemi-Tornion lentoasema; Swedish: Kemi-Torneå flygplats) is an airport in Kemi, Finland. The airport...
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    from the north-east, east and southeast so that the lower course of the Tornio was the last part of Finland to be deglaciated 10,100 years ago. Present-day...
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    Civil Guard-led uprising at Tornio, managed to secure both the port and most of the town as well as the bridges over the Tornio River. The Finnish attack...
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    Haparanda Municipality in Norrbotten County, Sweden. It is adjacent to Tornio, Finland. Haparanda has a population of 9,166 inhabitants (2024). Haparanda...
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    Meänmaa (redirect from Tornio River Valley)
    up the area are Haparanda, Övertorneå, Pajala and Kiruna in Sweden, and Tornio, Ylitornio, Pello, Kolari, Muonio and Enontekiö in Finland. Culturally the...
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    Epenthetic vowels (tyhjä - tyhyjä) are not common although found in southern Tornio dialects. There are no vowel or diphthong changes, a Western/standard feature...
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    Ylitornio (redirect from Upper Tornio)
    municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Lapland along the Tornio River, opposite the Swedish town of Övertorneå about 7 kilometres (4.3 mi)...
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    August 1998 Home base: Upinniemi Current status: In active service. FNS Tornio Pennant number: 81 Builder: Aker Finnyards Ordered: 15 February 2001 Commissioned:...
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    The Battle of Tornio refers to a battle of the Finnish Civil War, that took place in the City of Tornio between the Whites and the Reds. The Whites in...
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    Port of Tornio (Finnish: Tornion satama, Swedish: Torneå hamn), also known as the Port of Röyttä, is a cargo port located in the city of Tornio, Finland...
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    and three other municipalities form the Sea Lapland area: The cities of Tornio and Kemi, and the municipalities of Keminmaa, Simo and Tervola. The three...
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    The Torne, also known as the Tornio (Finnish: Tornionjoki, Swedish: Torne älv, Torneälven, Northern Sami: Duortneseatnu, Meänkieli: Väylä), is a river...
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  • September 17, 1938 Heidelberg A. Bohrmann  · 37 km MPC · JPL 1471 Tornio 1938 SL1 Tornio September 16, 1938 Turku Y. Väisälä  · 29 km MPC · JPL 1472 Muonio...
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    Kemi-Tornio sub-region is a subdivision of Finnish Lapland and, since 2009, one of the sub-regions of Finland. Results of the 2018 Finnish presidential...
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    town of Tornio, where the beer was originally brewed. The brewery was founded in 1873 under the name Torneå Bryggeri Aktiebolag (i.e., Tornio Brewery...
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    Finland and Sweden. Almost the entire border runs through water: along the Tornio River and its tributaries, and in the Gulf of Bothnia. Only a few kilometres...
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  • Kemi-Tornio University of Applied Sciences (KTUAS) was a Finnish University of applied sciences located in Kemi and Tornio. It was founded in 1992 as...
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    a town and municipality of Finland. It is located very near the city of Tornio and the Swedish border. The distance to Oulu is 105 kilometres (65 mi) to...
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  • Sami: Suovvaguoika) Kemi (Northern Sami: Giepma) Keminmaa Simo Tervola Tornio (Swedish: Torneå; Northern Sami: Duortnus) Inari (Inari Sami: Aanaar; Skolt...
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  • Torneå is the Swedish name of Tornio, a city in northern Finland. Ylitornio (Övertorneå) - a municipality in Finland Övertorneå - a municipality in Sweden...
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    proceeding by ferry to Trelleborg, Sweden, and from there to the Haparanda–Tornio border crossing and then to Helsinki before taking the final train to Petrograd...
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    between Tornio and Kolari. It is 186 km (116 mi) long. The railway is not electrified and it has Finnish broad gauge. It connects to the Oulu–Tornio railway...
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    with the most significant skirmishes being seen in Rauma, Oulu, Raahe, Tornio and Kokkola. Plumridge had authorized Captain George Giffard of HMS Leopard...
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    from Tornio and Kemi. It covers 157 square kilometres (61 sq mi) of which about 2.5 square kilometres (0.97 sq mi) is land. Islands in the Tornio municipality...
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    Raahe 23,601 44. Sastamala 23,486 45. Sipoo 22,840 46. Hollola 22,814 47. Siilinjärvi 21,240 48. Tornio 21,002 49. Pirkkala 20,938 50. Mäntsälä 20,892...
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    Valtatie 29; Swedish: Riksväg 29) is a highway in Finland between Keminmaa and Tornio. The road is part of the European route E8, except for the one kilometer...
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  • as Kemi Kemi River, Finland Kemi-Tornio sub-region, region of Finland Kemi Church Kemi railway station Kemi-Tornio Airport Kemi mine Kemi Adekoya (born...
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  • against Germany, the division's Infantry Regiment 11 conducted a landing in Tornio in the morning of October 1st, 1944. Following a successful landing, the...
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