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| | Laponia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12) |
 | | In 1809 it was split into a Swedish western part and a Finnish eastern part. |
 | | The division into a Swedish western part and a Finnish eastern part was caused when Sweden was forced to cede all of Finland and eastern Norrland to Russia in 1809. |
 | | Lapland is also used as a name, not only for the historical province in Sweden and Finland, but for the entire region, spanning across northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and into Russia, where the Sami people have their homelands. |
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