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Helsinki [a] [b] is the 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 685,000 people live in the municipality, with 1.3 million in the capital region and 1.61 million in the metropolitan area.
Helsingfors 1776-1777. Helsinki was founded by Swedish King Gustav I in 1550 as the town of Helsingfors.Gustav intended for the town to serve the purpose of consolidating trade in the southern part of Finland and providing a competitor to Reval (today: Tallinn), a nearby Hanseatic League city which dominated local trade at the time.
In European history, "post-classical" is synonymous with the medieval time or Middle Ages, the period of history from around the 5th century to the 15th century. It began with the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and merged into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. The Middle Ages is the middle period of the three traditional divisions ...
The concept of a Finnish country in the modern sense developed slowly from the 15th to 18th centuries. In the middle is the patron saint of Finland, Saint Henry, on the right side of him is Bishop Konrad Bitz and on the left is Dean Magnus Stjernkors; from Missale Aboense (1488) A reconstruction of a 12th-century Perniö costume
The spreading and establishment of the new population in Middle and North Ostrobothnia was one of the most notable events in the history of the Finnish population during the medieval ages. In Åland , the Turku archipelago and the coastal regions of Ostrobothnia and Nylandia there also was a Swedish -speaking population.
Helsinki becomes capital of Grand Duchy of Finland. [6] Esplanadi park opens. 1815 - Helsinki Orthodox Cemetery established. 1819 - Sinebrychoff Brewery founded. 1822 - Government Palace built. 1826 - Helsinki Old Church built. 1827 - Engels Teater, the first theatre, is built. [2] 1828 - The Royal Academy of Turku relocates to Helsinki. [3]
The bombing of Helsinki lasted three nights, and in the end, only four percent of the bombs had actually hit their intended target in Helsinki. [ 3 ] Later, during the fast construction phase in the 1990s, the diversion of Soviet bombers led to halts on building sites, as unexploded aerial bombs were discovered hidden in the ground.
The Nordic countries (also known as the Nordics or Norden; ... During the Middle Ages, ... the capital of Iceland. Helsinki, ...