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	Åland
		The Åland Islands are an archipelago at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia, about 40 km from the coast of Sweden, and 25 km from that of Finland.
		The Åland Islands belonged to the provinces Sweden had to cede to Russia by the treaty of Fredrikshamn in September 1809, and came then to be a part of the semi-autonomous Grand duchy of Finland.
		The islands are demilitarised and the male population is exempted from conscription.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/al/Aland_Islands.html (853 words)

	The Aland Islands
		The largest island is called Fasta Åland (Main Island of Aland) where 90% of the population live.
		The population of Aland in the 18th century was about 11,000, inhabiting 80 of the islands.
		The Aland Islands, with a fairly independent administration, belonged to the Kingdom of Sweden from the early 13th century until 1809, when Sweden was forced to relinquish Aland and Finland to Russia.
	www.osterholm.info /aland/index.html (497 words)

	Ferries to Aland - Book a ferry to Aland. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The largest island is the main island of Aland, 50 km long, 45 km wide and inhabited by 90% of the population.
		The Aland islands are divided in 16 munincipalities.
		The Aland islands have a mild climate with an average temperature in July of +16 degrees Celsius and in February of - 4 degrees Celsius.
	www.aferry.to /ferry-to-aland.htm (429 words)

	Aaland Islands (Finland)
		The flag of the Åland Islands (Finnish: Ahvenanmaa, Swedish: Åland) is blue with a red Scandinavian cross fimbriated yellow.
		The dimensions of the flag of the Åland Islands are 16:3:4:3:26 horizontally and 12:3:4:3:12 vertically.
		The revised autonomy act (1991) for the Åland Islands gave the autonomy authorities increased powers to pass legislation concerning the use of the Åland flag, especially as concerns its use at sea.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/ax.html (824 words)

	Scandinavian - Lights \| Aland Island
		The Aland Islands were inhabited as early as 4200 BC.
		The question of the Aland Islands remained unsolved until it was put up in front of The Council of the League of Nations and in 1921 the Council decided that Aland Islands has to remain under Finnish sovereignty.
		Aland nowadays enjoys prosperous economy and flourishing wealthy community, a community which looks forward for the 21st century with great anticipation.
	www.scandi-lights.com /en/aland_islands_eng.htm (506 words)

	Åland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The islands consist of the main island Fasta Åland (where 90% of the population resides) and an archipelago to the east that consists of over 6,500 skerries and islands.
		The autonomous status of the islands was affirmed by a decision made by the League of Nations in 1921 and, in a somewhat different context, reaffirmed in the treaty on Finland's admission to the European Union.
		The islands were granted extensive autonomy by the Parliament of Finland in the Act on the Autonomy of Åland of 1920, which was last replaced by new legislation by the same name in 1951 and 1991.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aland_Islands (1938 words)

	Travel97: A Land of Islands
		Aland (pronounced OU-land) has been part of Sweden and a Russian grand duchy and is now an autonomous province of Finland.
		The council granted Finland sovereignty over Aland, but with the provisions that the islands remain neutral, that they have a high degree of autonomy and that the people are granted their Swedish language, culture and local traditions.
		Aland's 25,000 residents live on 65 of the islands, and almost 90 percent of the population lives on Fasta Aland, the main island and site of the capital, Mariehamn.
	www.sptimes.com /Travel97/10198/A_Land_of_Islands_.html (1705 words)

	IGA - NatWest Island Games
		Aland is an archipelago consisting of some 6,500 islands and skerries, with a total land area of 1,481 square kilometres.
		Aland has contemporary artists, designers, writers and musical talents, all inspired by the beautiful scenery and environment of the Aland Islands.
		Aland have been represented at the Island Games since its inception in 1985 in the Isle of Man and are one of the founder members of the Association.
	www.islandgames.net /content/members/aland.html (923 words)

	Aland Islands travel guide
		The Aland Islands group, comprising over 6000 islands, is located in the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland.
		At the beginning of the 19th century, Aland was claimed by Russia and it was not until 1921 that it was restored to its Scandanavian 'owner' again, it this instant, Finland.
		Although the islands have a certain form of autonomy, they still form a province of Finland nowadays, not in the least because Finland' guaranteed the preservation of the Swedish language, culture and self-government.
	www.world66.com /europe/finland/alandislands (152 words)

	Alandic Tours - The Aland Islands
		During the Crimean war France and Britain attacked and defeated the Russians and in the peace treaty the Aland Islands were declared demilitarized for the future.
		The nature of the Aland islands is perhaps one of the most important reasons for visiting the islands.
		Spectacular variation with thousands of islands and skerries in contrast to the greens of land and the blue sea and sky are a truly unique experience.
	home.aland.net /m05343/aland.html (1173 words)

	AllRefer.com - aland Islands, Scandinavia (Scandinavian Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Politically, it constitutes the aland province of Finland.
		The chief town and provincial capital is Mariehamn, a port on aland, the largest of the islands.
		The islands, colonized by Swedes, are of strategic importance.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/AlandIsl.html (327 words)

	ALAND ISLANDS - Online Information article about ALAND ISLANDS
		The Aland Islands occupy a position of the greatest strategic importance, commanding as they do both the entrance to the See also:
		September 18o9, the islands were ceded to Russia, together with the territories forming the See also:
		provision that the islands should not be fortified.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /AJA_ALL/ALAND_ISLANDS.html (861 words)

	Finland - Aland Islands
		The province of the Aland Islands enjoys considerable autonomy by virtue of the Autonomy Act of 1951 that guarantees the way of life and the preservation of Swedish traditions on the islands.
		Voters must be eighteen years of age by the year of the election and must have the right of domicile on the islands, a right acquired by living for at least five years in the province.
		Another link between the islands and the national government is the Aland Delegation, usually headed by the provincial governor; its other four members are chosen by the Council of State and the Landsting.
	countrystudies.us /finland/122.htm (617 words)

	Rocks on stamps - Aland Islands
		For centuries the Åland Islands belonged to the crown of Sweden, as was the case with Finland as a whole.
		To settle a strong movement on the islands towards Sweden the islands got a form of autonomy, but the Finnish sovereignty over the islands was confirmed in 1921 by a decision of the League of Nations.
		In 1951 the autonomy of the islands was renounced by the Finnish parliament, but the inhabitants got special rights, including their own flag.
	www.geo.uw.edu.pl /HOBBY/STAMP/ROCK/aland.htm (210 words)

	All hail the new TLD - .ax \| The Register
		The Aland Islands (although the Finnish will have it known they are the Ahvenanmaa Islands) are made up of 6,500 islands and outcrops, 65 miles east of Stockholm and cover 572 square miles.
		The islands have jumped between Swedish and Finnish ownership over the centuries and while Swedish is the language and most influences the culture, the last people to own them were the Finns.
		What is interesting in terms of the Internet however is that the Aland Islands are now on the official ISO 3166-1 list which means they can have their own Internet domain.
	www.theregister.co.uk /2004/04/18/ax_domain (971 words)

	BakuSun
		A visit to the islands by a group of Armenian and Azerbaijani IWPR journalists, supported by the Aland Islands Peace Institute, highlighted the success of the formula of autonomy found for the islands themselves as well as lessons for the unresolved Karabakh dispute.
		In December 1993, with the support of the Finnish government, a symposium was held in the islands’ capital Marienhamn for parliamentarians from the region.
		Alizada argues that the Aland model would benefit the Armenians by giving them a guarantee of permanent democracy and would suit Azerbaijan in so far as everything would be decided within a legal framework, “Besides Karabakh will not be detached from the territory of our state.
	www.bakusun.az:8101 /cgi-bin/ayten/bakusun/show.cgi?code=10422 (1110 words)

	Aland
		The islands have their own parliament with rights to pass legislation in certain areas that concern the islands.
		Since 1954 The Aland Islands have had their own flag and since 1984 their own stamps.
		Still today these rules apply and anyone with a regional citizenship in the islands is freed from compulsory military service and no troops are allowed to be stationed in the islands.
	www.iantravel.com /Aland/index.html (229 words)

	Aland Islands, Finland
		The Åland Islands (Finnish Ahvenanmaa) lie between Finland and Sweden at the south end of the Gulf of Bothnia, separating it from the Baltic.
		To the west of the islands, extending between them and Sweden, is the Åland Sea, some 40km/25mi across; to the east is the arm of the sea known as Skiftet.
		After the First World War there was a movement for union with Sweden, but in 1921 the islands were assigned by the League of Nations to Finland, the population being granted full self-government, permanent demilitarization and the exclusive use of the Swedish language.
	www.planetware.com /finland/aland-islands-sf-ahv-alis.htm (257 words)

	Closing Words by the President at a Seminar on Aland Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		We started with the demilitarisation of the islands after the Crimean War, and continued with the development of their legal status from the resolution of the dispute by the League of Nations to the present-day autonomy and neutrality.
		The Åland Islands for their part might well have influenced the thinking of the negotiators as an example of autonomy in an international and constitutional framework.
		My message in those days to colleagues in the Government and in the Parliament being sceptic to a consolidation of the Autonomy has remained unchanged until today: a society and a nation that claims to be civilised can afford and must have the political capacity to defend and to develop the rights of its minorities.
	www.un.org /ga/president/55/speech/aland.htm (1027 words)

	K7BV - Market Reef and Aland Islands Expedition
		The Aland Islands form an autonomous, demilitarized and unilingually Swedish province of Finland.
		The largest island is "Fasta Aland" (the Main Island), where 90 per cent of the population live.
		In time many of the islands have been joined together or with the Main Island by means of bridges and causeways, while others are depopulated, and the 25,000 inhabitants live in only 65 of the islands.
	www.qth.com /k7bv/Market (2202 words)

	News: Aland Islands get interworking MMS - Mobile Monday
		By opening the interworking service, MMS messaging between the operators in Aland Islands now reaches the same level of interoperability, which has for years been the case on SMS and voice calls in Finland and Europe.
		The Aland Islands are an autonomous province of Finland consisting of a group of islands in the Baltic Sea between Finland and Sweden.
		Alands Mobiltelefon Ab has more than 50% of the mobile market on the Aland Islands.
	www.mobilemonday.net /mm/story.php?story_id=3012 (368 words)

	Beyond Boundaries Travel: Åland Islands Cycling Tour
		Located directly between the Finnish and Swedish mainland, Aland is an independent, Swedish-speaking region of Finland consisting of more than 6.500 islands.
		Typical of Aland are the striking midsummer poles, windmills, and local Aland delicacies : Aland pancakes and sweet fl bread.
		The islands are easy to reach by ferry from Stockholm or from Turku, Finland; or by air from Helsinki or Turku.
	www.beyondboundariestravel.com /barge_bike/biking_aland.html (453 words)

	ALAND ISLANDS Travel
		Aland is today an autonomous province of Finland (once belonging to Sweden) and a favorite destination for the locals.
		See the preserved Museum Ship Pommern, the Aland Maritime Museum and the Maritime Quarter in the Eastern Harbor and architect Lars Sonck’s traces in the Church, Town Hall and Yacht Club.
		Perhaps inquire about one of the excursions on the island.
	www.scantours.com /3days_taste_of_aland_islands.htm (114 words)

	The Treaty of Paris
		My understanding was that the Åland Islands were demilitarised in order to limit Russian expansion in the Baltic Sea region and to place a buffer between the Russian Empire and Sweden (even that it was Sweden that pushed for the inclusion of Åland's demilitarisation in the negotiations).
		The agreement on Aland was conditional in it not appearing in the main treaty - It is referred to in article 33 as being an annex, and attached as Convention III.
		This is all very interesting from a local (Aland) perspective, though both the destruction of Bomarsund and the demilitarisation were, relatively speaking, minor elements of the Crimean War.
	www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/crimean_war/102052 (1679 words)

	Politics of Åland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Politics of the Åland Islands takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic autonomous, demilitarised and unilingually Swedish territory of Finland, whereby the Lantråd is the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system.
		This anxiety in the local population, and in the other Scandinavian states, resulted in a Swedish occupation and 7,135 people (of a total population of approximately 22,500 at the time) signing the address for Åland joining the kingdom of Sweden.
		The council decided unanimously, that the islands would remain under Finland's sovereignty, but stated that the native population's rights to their own language had to be preserved, that the area had to stay demilitarized and that Åland was granted autonomy during peace time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_%C3%85land (598 words)

	ARRLWeb: Visiting the Åland Islands
		An archipelago at the entrance of the Gulf of Bothnia in the Baltic Sea, the Åland Islands form an autonomous Swedish-speaking administrative province of Finland.
		The landscape and the climate are different from Stockholm; the air seems purer, and the island atmosphere is calmer.
		Amateur Radio is a most suitable pastime for this tranquil, sparsely populated, rustic landscape of 150 islands, where the winds of latest radiocommunication technology blow from the east and from the west.
	www.arrl.org /news/features/2006/06/27/1 (1261 words)

	Alandic Tours - All-inclusive vacations in the Aland Islands
		Travel to and from the Aland Islands and other related costs such as excess baggage fees etc.
		Due to the design of the tours we can not at this point accept guests with disabilities which considerably impair their ability of movement.
		Alandic Tours is only responsible for the tour arrangements in the Aland Islands.
	home.aland.net /m05343/terms.html (888 words)

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