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  2. Finnish diaspora - Wikipedia

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    The Finnish diaspora consists of Finnish emigrants and their descendants, especially those that maintain some of the customs of their Finnish culture. Finns emigrated to the United Kingdom, the United States , France, Canada , Australia , Argentina , New Zealand , Sweden , Norway , Russia, Germany, Israel and Brazil.

  3. Finnish Americans - Wikipedia

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    Finnish Americans (Finnish: ... The years between 1870 and 1930 are sometimes referred to as the Great Migration of Finns to North America. ... Finnish diaspora ...

  4. Murmansk Finns - Wikipedia

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    Murmansk Finns or Kola Finns (Finnish: Muurmanninsuomalaiset, Kuolansuomalaiset) are a group of Finns who live or lived in Murmansk Oblast. They came to Murmansk around 1860 during the Finnish famine of 1866–68. [1] However, there was another immigration period in 1900, due to the building of the Kirov Railway. In 2010, there were 273 Finns ...

  5. Nordic Americans in New York City - Wikipedia

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    A Finnish-American family in Finntown, Brooklyn (1942). Before the nineteenth century, most of the Finns in New York were sailors. Because of that the Finnish Seamen’s Mission was founded in 1887 by Emil Panelius, which was the first Finnish religious organization in the city. In the 1900 census the city had about 10.000 people of Finnish ...

  6. Category:Finnish diaspora in the United States - Wikipedia

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    American people of Finnish descent (7 C, 321 P) Pages in category "Finnish diaspora in the United States" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.

  7. Category:Finnish diaspora - Wikipedia

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    Finnish diaspora in North America (2 C) A. Finnish diaspora in Australia (1 C, 2 P) D. People of Finnish descent (13 C) E. Finnish emigrants (23 C, 11 P)

  8. History of Finland - Wikipedia

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    The Finnish national awakening in the mid-19th century was the result of members of the Swedish-speaking upper classes deliberately choosing to promote Finnish culture and language as a means of nation building, i.e. to establish a feeling of unity among all people in Finland including (and not of least importance) between the ruling elite and ...

  9. Fennoman movement - Wikipedia

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    A set of graves in Tampere, showing the original surname "Kyander" as well as the fennicized "Kiianmies". The Fennoman movement or Fennomania was a Finnish nationalist movement in the 19th-century Grand Duchy of Finland, built on the work of the fennophile interests of the 18th and early-19th centuries.