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	Turku - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Turku Airport is located eight kilometres to the north of the city centre, partly in the neighbouring municipality of Rusko.
		Turku is the central economic hub of southwestern Finland, and the capital of the Turku economic district.
		Turku is a candidate city for European Capital of Culture in 2011, and the city council has approved numerous projects to boost the city's image in preparation for that status.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Turku (3449 words)

	Turku - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Turku is the fifth largest city in Finland, with a population of about 175 000, and is located in the south-west of the country at the mouth of the Aura river.
		The Turku region is usually considered to include, in addition to the city itself, at least the neighbouring cities of Naantali, Raisio and Kaarina and the town of Lieto.
		Turku Airport is located eight kilometres to the north of the city centre, partly in the neighbouring municipality of Rusko, and has frequent connections to Helsinki (Vantaa), Stockholm (Arlanda) and Copenhagen (Kastrup) airports.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Turku (1785 words)

	Turku Cathedral
		Turku Cathedral is the mother church of the Lutheran Church of Finland, and the country’s national shrine.
		The worst damage was caused by the Great Fire of Turku in 1827, when most of the town was destroyed, along with both the tower and the interior of the Cathedral.
		The present tower, constructed after the Great Fire, reaches a height of 101 metres above sea level, and is visible over a considerable distance as the symbol of both the Cathedral and the city.
	www.turunsrk.fi /portal/turun_tuomiokirkko/english/construction_stages (782 words)

	Turku travel guide - Wikitravel
		Turku [1] is a city in the Southwest of Finland.
		Turku has approximately 175 000 inhabitants, and was the most important city in Finland until the early 19th century, when the Russians made Helsinki the capital city.
		Turku is at its best during the summertime, and hosts a great number of festivals, including rock festivals, chamber music festivals and a renaissance faire.
	wikitravel.org /en/Turku (2094 words)

	Women & Future conference 2004
		The City of Turku is a place with the oldest cultural traditions in Finland.
		The Great Fire of Turku in 1827 destroyed nearly all of the wooden buildings in town.
		Turku is also one of the most popular congress towns in Finland hosting numerous international conferences every year.
	www.osaavanainen.fi /kutsuseminaari/turku_promono/turku.html (292 words)

	University of Turku - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The University of Turku (Finnish Turun yliopisto, Swedish Åbo universitet), located in Turku in southwestern Finland, is the second largest university in the country as measured by student enrolment.
		The first university to be established in Turku was Academy of Åbo, in 1640, which was transferred to the new Capital, Helsinki, after the Great Fire of Turku in 1827.
		The first premises of the University of Turku were in the centre of the city, by the market square.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/University_of_Turku (465 words)

	Great Buildings Online - Master Buildings List 2006.0520
		Great Mosque, by unknown, at Kairawan, Tunisia, 820 to 836.
		Great Mosque of Damascus, by unknown, at Damascus, Syria, 706 to 715.
		Great Stupa at Sanchi, by unknown, at central India, -200 to 200.
	www.greatbuildings.com /buildings.html (11322 words)

	Elias Lönnrot
		He studied medicine at the University of Turku (=Åbo).
		Unfortunately the year he joined was the year of the Great Fire of Turku, burning down half the town -- and the University.
		Lönnrot (and much of the rest of the University) moved to Helsinki, where he graduated in 1832.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/el/Elias_Lonnrot.html (445 words)

	Turku. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Known as the “cradle of Finnish culture,” Turku is among Finland’s oldest cities.
		The national university was in Turku from 1640 to 1827, when a fire destroyed almost the entire city and the university was moved (1828) to Helsinki.
		The great cathedral was begun in the early 13th cent.
	www.bartleby.com /65/tu/Turku.html (232 words)

	Degree ceremonies of the university of Turku - Promootio 2006 - 24.-27.5.2006 - Turun yliopisto
		Degree ceremonies of the university of Turku - Promootio 2006 - 24.-27.5.2006 - Turun yliopisto
		After the great fire of Turku in 1827, the Academia Aboensis was transferred to Helsinki and renamed the Imperial Alexander University.
		The first degree ceremony of the University of Turku was held in May 1927 in association with the inauguration of the recently founded university.
	www.utu.fi /promootio2006/en (428 words)

	RRs: Visit Finland - Finland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		According to the legend, bishop Henry is murdered by the peasant Lalli on the frozen surface of lake Köyliö.
		The bishop's seat is moved from Nousiainen to Koroinen in the vicinity of modern Turku; the year is considered to be the founding year of Turku, which becomes the capital of the eastern half of the kingdom.
		Mikael Agricola (circa 1510-57), a bishop of Turku and great advocate of Lutheranism, is considered the father of Finnish literature.
	www22.brinkster.com /sisunet/suomi_rrs.html (4482 words)

	Turku Cathedral
		The oldest parts of Turku Cathedral date from the beginning of the 13th century.
		The church was completed in the end of the 13th century, and dedicated in 1300 as a Cathedral to St. Mary and the first bishop of Finland St. Henry.
		The worst damage to the church was caused by the Great Fire of Turku in 1827.
	www.muuka.com /finnishpumpkin/churches/t/cwtut/church_cwtut.html (146 words)

	Helsinki, Finland
		The Gymnasium in Turku was upgraded to a Royal University, and the city of Helsinki was moved from the rapids at the mouth of the river Vantaa to the outer islands; a place called Vironniemi ("Estonian Point"), its name reflecting the closeness of Estonia and its fishermen who habitually sheltered there.
		Destroyed completely by fire in 1808, it was possible to build the city up from scratch, and from 1814 two men were employed to design the city's street plan and main buildings to suit its new status.
		The great fire of Turku in 1827 resulted in the University being moved to Helsinki in 1828.
	worldfacts.us /Finland-Helsinki.htm (2634 words)

	About Me
		Turku is a city located in the south-west of Finland, at the coast.
		It's an important place for transports as nearly all the transportation from Europe and other places is directed to Turku harbor or sometimes Rauma harbor.
		The university was founded in 1640 by Per Brahe, but was moved to Helsinki after the great Turku Fire in 1827.
	www.angelfire.com /ny/maseg/me.html (450 words)

	Treasure hunting in Helsinki - look no further — Virtual Finland
		The Turku library developed in stages, alternating between stable growth and periods when its existence was threatened by war and other perils.
		Under an imperial proclamation of 1828, the Academy of Turku was to be relocated to Helsinki, the new capital of the Grand Duchy, where it was renamed the Imperial Alexander University of Finland.
		The fire of Turku raised eyebrows across Europe and it was reported widely in the press.
	virtual.finland.fi /netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=41709 (2081 words)

	Finnish organ history
		Be that as it may, the earliest documentary evidence of an organ built in Turku Cathedral dates from the mid-16th century.
		This organ was destroyed in the Great Fire of Turku in 1827.
		Anders Thulé, a peasant farmer's son born in Kila in Sweden, was in charge of installing the organs at Oulu Cathedral and Turku Cathedral on behalf of his employer Andersson; Thulé was apparently also largely responsible for the voicing.
	www2.siba.fi /shu/history.html (4347 words)

	Tuorla Observatory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The first master of observatory in Turku Henrik Johan Walbeck (1793-1822), whose most noteworthy scientific work was to determine the shape of the Earth from earlier observations using a new least-squares method developed by Gauss.
		After the great fire in Turku the Academy of Turku and the observatory were moved to Helsinki.
		Observing ended in Turku in 1831, when the equipment was sent to Helsinki.
	www.astro.utu.fi /TAS/TuorlaObs/EngHis02.html (192 words)

	Witchcraft - Finnish Witch Trials in Synopsis
		Finland's most important cities were Turku (Åbo) on the western coast, and Vyborg in the east, both established during the middle ages.
		Already at the beginning of the early modern period (1500-1800), Finland was famous for her witches, and especially the great shamans in Lapland.
		The witch trials were concentrated in the southwestern parts of the country (around Turku) and in the southeast areas of Karelia around Vyborg, both the wealthiest and most densely populated areas in Finland.
	www.chronicon.com /noita/witchtrials.html (2660 words)

	Review
		Wald was, however, a good craftsman, and even his early Turku works are, despite the shortcomings of the press, polished and stylish.
		A great fire destroyed Turku in 1827 and put a stop to the activity of the city's presses.
		The printing activity that resumed after the fire, in a Finland which had meanwhile, in 1809, become an autonomous grand duchy of Russia, had clearly entered a new period.
	www.gr2.fi /g2sivut/words5.html (1126 words)

	In Brief - University of Turku
		The first university in Finland, Academia Aboensis, was established in Turku in 1640 by Christina, the Queen of Sweden and Finland.
		In 1828, following the Great Fire of Turku, the university was transferred to Helsinki, the new capital of the country, which at the time belonged to the Russian Empire.
		The University of Turku was a private foundation untill 1974, when the ownership of the University was transferred to the State.
	www.utu.fi /en/university/inbrief (261 words)

	University of Helsinki
		But nearly all objects were destroyed by fire in 1827.
		The device was acquired by the Royal Academy of Turku from John Newman in London in 1814; it is one of the rare objects in the Cabinet of Physics that were saved from the Great Fire of Turku in 1827.
		The device was acquired by the Royal Academy of Turku from John Newman in London in 1814.
	www.museo.helsinki.fi /english/collections/the_cabinet_of_physics.htm (855 words)

	Naturally - The von Wright Brothers
		For Magnus, however, his brief period in Turku was important in many respects, since he found himself in a group of students who did nature studies.
		Apparently this encouraged him to submit his observations of migratory birds made in Turku in 1824-1825 and at Haminalahti in the spring of 1826 for printing in the Academy of Sciences’ publication series.
		This in turn had a decidedly negative effect on fishermen’s livelihoods, which was a great source of worry to Wilhelm, and it has been conjectured that the resultant mental pressure ruined his health.
	www.turuntaidemuseo.fi /vonwright/leikola/en_leikola_kirj.shtml (2203 words)

	CANOE Travel - Travel Guide
		It's great for summer outdoor concerts and picnics in the park.
		West of Helsinki and the Finnish mainland in the Baltic Sea is the little archipelago of Ãland, where Swedish-speaking residents, technically Finns, enjoy a great deal of autonomy from the Finnish government.
		And don't miss the towering Turku Castle, with its popular stone, bronze, Iron Age, and medieval exhibitions.
	www.canoe.ca /Travel/AtevoGuides/country/Finland/Highlights.html (681 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		It was originally established in Turku, but moved to Helsinki by order of Czar Nicholas I after the Great Fire of Turku in 1827.
		UUDENMAANKATU: THE PARTY STREET OF Uudenmaankatu, the emblem of studio and media culture and the 90´s economic boom, has established its institutional status in Helsinki's nightlife and the bar scene.
		This is just as well: the radiation effect of the area known for its relatively small, original bars with great atmosphere to the city's nightlife remains strong.
	www.aktivist.fi /inenglish/u.html (878 words)

	Frontpage
		Its name comes from the name of the wife of Finland’s national writer, J. Runeberg, Fredrika Tengström, who moved into the cottage with her mother after the great fire in Turku in 1827.
		Tourists, summer guests, family and friends gather together with the residents of the archipelago to celebrate a joyful evening around traditional bonfires, which are symbolically reminiscent of the bonfires that used to be lit across the archipelago in olden days.
		The ancient fires are lit at 9:30 p.m.
	www.parainen.fi /index.phtml?page_id=2017 (1269 words)

	University of Helsinki
		The archives of the University administration comprise the archives of the Chancellor's Office (1726–), the Turku Academy (1640–1828), the Rector's Office (1828–1991), the Administration Office (1992–), the Faculties (1828–), the Departments and other university bodies.
		During Swedish Rule the Chancellor's Office was located in Sweden and during Russian rule in St.Petersburg, from where the archives were transferred to the University shortly before the October Revolution in 1917.
		The archives of the Turku Academy were badly damaged in the great fire of Turku in 1827.
	www.helsinki.fi /keskusarkisto/english/archives.htm (173 words)

	Turku Finland - My University Town
		Turku is only 175 KM from Helsinki which is a 2 - 2,5 hours drive by car or bus.
		Turku university is situated about 2 KM from city center except for the translation school - where I studied - which was right in the center!
		There are 3 sights in Turku that should not be missed by anyone: The Cathedral, Turku Castle and The Public Toilet pub (Puutorin VESSA) at Puutori-square!
	www.globosapiens.net /travel-information/Turku-881.html (927 words)

	4.3 History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		1229 The bishop's seat is moved from Nousiainen to Koroinen in the vicinity of modern Turku; the year is considered to be the founding year of Turku, which becomes the capital of the eastern half of the kingdom.
		The Vasa princes were taught Finnish, prince Johan was given an enlarged Turku fief as duchy, and the Finnish nobility made careers in the civil service - and in the wars with Russia.
		In the national conflicts and civil wars the Finnish nobility supported the legal kings (Erik XIV and Sigismund), and not the opponents duke Johan and duke Karl, with the consequence that many lost their lands and/or their heads when duke Karl had become king Karl IX.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/nordic-faq/part4_FINLAND/section-2.html (4729 words)

	Turku, Finland
		Turku is the fifth largest city in Finland, with a population of about 175,000, and is located in the south-west of the country at the mouth of the Aura river.
		An asteroid, 1496 Turku, was named after the town by its Finnish discoverer, Yrjö Väisälä.
		The discovery site, Iso-Heikkilä Observatory, is located in Turku.
	creekin.net /c3554-n66-turku-finland.html (1696 words)

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