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Suur-Suomen muisto [The memory of Greater Finland] (in Finnish). Archived from the original on 2001-03-06. Sundqvist, Janne (26 May 2014). Suur-Suomi olisi onnistunut vain natsi-Saksan avulla [Greater Finland would have succeeded only with the help of Nazi Germany] (in Finnish).. Yle uutiset 26.5.2014.
Finland became the first territory in Europe to grant universal suffrage in 1906, and the first in the world to give all adult citizens the right to run for public office. [16] [note 2] Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, Finland declared its independence. A civil war was fought in Finland the following year, with the Whites emerging ...
The area controlled by Finland at its largest, in 1942 Marshal of Finland Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim visit in Germany, 1942. In August 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, where Finland and the Baltic states were allocated to the Soviet "sphere of influence".
By the middle of the 17th century, the Realm of Sweden had reached its greatest territorial extent and was one of the great powers of Europe. Sweden then included Finland and Estonia, along with parts of modern Russia, Poland, Germany, Norway and Latvia under King Gustavus Adolphus.
Finland signed a peace treaty with the Allied powers in 1947 which described Finland as having been "an ally of Hitlerite Germany" during the continuation war. [129] As such, Finland was the only democracy to join the Axis. [130] [131] Finland's relative independence from Germany put it in the most advantageous position of all the minor Axis ...
Finland passed its flexible work act in 1996–and it may partly explain why it’s the happiest nation. Miika Mäkitalo. March 19, 2024 at 7:38 AM. Alessandro Rampazzo - Anadolu Agency - Getty ...
Finland's total area is 337,030 km 2 (130,128 sq mi). Of this area 10% is water, 69% forest, 8% cultivated land and 13% other. Finland is the eighth largest country in Europe after Russia, France, Ukraine, Spain, Sweden, Norway and Germany. As a whole, the shape of Finland's boundaries resembles a figure of a one-armed human.
The Kalmar Union [a] was a personal union in Scandinavia, agreed at Kalmar in Sweden as designed by Queen Margaret of Denmark. From 1397 to 1523, [1] it joined under a single monarch the three kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden (then including much of present-day Finland), and Norway, together with Norway's overseas colonies [b] (then including Iceland, Greenland, [c] the Faroe Islands, and the ...