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Ahvenanmaa - MSN Encarta |
 | | Ahvenanmaa or Åland Islands, province of Finland, composed of the Åland Islands, situated at the northern end of the Baltic Sea, at the mouth of the Gulf of Bothnia, between Sweden and Finland. |
 | | The islands were Christianized by Sweden in the 12th century; in 1809 Ahvenanmaa and all of Finland were ceded to Russia. |
 | | Ahvenanmaa joined the European Union (EU) along with the rest of Finland in 1994. |
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