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 Karelia - History, Politics, Geography, Demographics, Culture
Karelia is the land of the Karelian and Finnish peoples and is a vast inhabited area in Northern Europe of historical significance for Finland, Russia, and Sweden.
Karelia streches from the White Sea coast to the Gulf of Finland.
Tver Karelia denotes the villages in the Tver Oblast that are inhabited by Karelians.
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  Qwika - Karelia
Karelia streches from the White Sea coast to the Gulf of Finland.
Tver Karelia denotes the villages in the Tver Oblast that are inhabited by Karelians.
The dialect spoken mainly in South Karelia is one of the southeastern dialects of Finnish.
wikipedia.qwika.com /wiki/Karelia   (821 words)

  
 Karelia (disambiguation)
Karelia - a historical province of Sweden (Historical provinces of Finland)
Northern Karelia[?] - an administrative region in Finland
Republic of Karelia - an autonomous republic[?] in Russia (Eastern Karelia)
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ka/Karelian.html   (82 words)

  
 Karelia - Biocrawler
Karelia was bitterly fought over by Sweden and Novgorod in the 13th century.
In the 1940s, most of Finnish Karelia was first ceded to the Soviet Union in the Peace of Moscow that followed the Winter War (1939–1940), then re-conquered for three years during the Continuation War 1941–1944 when also East Karelia was occupied by the Finns.
The border between Karelia and Ingria, the land of the closely related Ingrian people, is traditionally held to follow the rivlet Sestra/Rajajoki (Russian: Сестра/Раяйоки), today in the Saint Petersburg metropolitan area, but 1812–1940 the Russo-Finnish border.
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 Karelia information - Search.com
Karelia was bitterly fought over by Sweden and the Novgorod Republic during the 13th-century Swedish-Novgorodian Wars.
The political expression of these irredentist hopes is called the Karelian question and is about for Finland's re-acquisition of the ceded Finnish Karelia live on in for instance the Karjalan Liitto and ProKarelia.
On the other side of Lake Ladoga, River Svir is usually thought of as the traditional southern border of Karelian land, as Lake Saimaa marks the Western border while Lake Onega and the White Sea mark the Eastern border.
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 Karelia - Japan
Karelia is the land of the Karelian and Finnish peoples and is a vast inhabited area in Northern Europe of historical significance for Finland, Russia, and Sweden.
Karelia was bitterly fought over by Sweden and the Novgorod Republic during the 13th-century Swedish-Novgorodian Wars.
The Republic of Karelia is a republic of Russia, which was formed in 1991 from the Karelian ASSR.
karelia.zdnet.co.za /zdnet/Karelia   (1352 words)

  
  Republic of Karelia Summary
Karelia is populated chiefly by Russians (73.6% of the population) and (ethnically Finnic) Karelians (10.0%).
Historically Karelia was a region to the northwest of Russia, east of present-day Finland, controlled by the Novgorod Republic.
The Constitution of the Republic of Karelia was adopted on February 12, 2001.
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 Wikinfo | Karelia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Karelia, Karjala (in Finnish) or Karelen (in Swedish), is a historical province in eastern Finland.
Present-day Finnish Karelia is divided upon the administrative provinces of Eastern Finland (Northern Karelia) and Southern Finland (Southern Karelia).
The traditional culture of Ladoga-Karelia, or Finnish Karelia (according to the pre-Winter War borders), was by and large similar to that of East-Karelia, or Russian Karelia.
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 Karelian Isthmus   (Site not responding. Last check: )
:''See Karelia (disambiguation) for other meanings of the name Karelia.'' The Karelian Isthmus is the narrow stretch of land between the Gulf of Finland and Lake Ladoga in northwestern Russia.
The city of Vyborg and the town of Priozersk are situated on the northwestern end of the isthmus.
From 1721-1812 the Isthmus belonged to the Russian Empire, won in the Great Northern War that started with the Russian conquest of Ingria where the new imperial capital, Saint Petersburg, was founded (1703) in the southern end of the isthmus, in place of old Swedish town Nyenskans.
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 Karelia - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Karelia is the land of the Karelian people, that inhabitated vast areas in Northern Europe, of historical significance for Finland, Russia and Sweden.
Karelia was bitterly fought over by Sweden and Novgorod Republic in the 13th century.
Tver Karelia denotes the villages in the Tver Oblast that are inhabited by Karelians.
www.tvwiki.tv /wiki/Karelia   (810 words)

  
 Karelia information - Search.com
Karelia was bitterly fought over by Sweden and the Novgorod Republic during the 13th-century Swedish-Novgorodian Wars.
The political expression of these irredentist hopes is called the Karelian question and is about for Finland's re-acquisition of the ceded Finnish Karelia live on in for instance the Karjalan Liitto and ProKarelia.
On the other side of Lake Ladoga, River Svir is usually thought of as the traditional southern border of Karelian land, as Lake Saimaa marks the Western border while Lake Onega and the White Sea mark the Eastern border.
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 Republic of Karelia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Regions of North and South Karelia lie in Finland and the Karelian Republic in Russia.
Historically Karelia was a region to the northwest of Russia, east of present-day Finland, controlled by the Novgorod Republic.
The Constitution of the Republic of Karelia was adopted on February 12, 2001.
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Karelia is the land of the Karelian and Finnish peoples and is a vast inhabited area in Northern Europe of historical significance for Finland, Russia, and Sweden.
Karelia was bitterly fought over by Sweden and the Novgorod Republic during the 13th-century Swedish-Novgorodian Wars.
Karelia stretches from the White Sea coast to the Gulf of Finland.
www.coder-world.de /cgi-bin/metaseek/lexikon_Karelia_en.html   (1039 words)

  
 Karelia
Karelia is the land of the Karelian and Finnish peoples and is a vast inhabited area in Northern Europe of historical significance for Finland, Russia, and Sweden.
Karelia was bitterly fought over by Sweden and the Novgorod Republic during the 13th-century Swedish-Novgorodian Wars.
The Republic of Karelia is a republic of Russia, which was formed in 1991 from the Karelian ASSR.
www.wordinfo.co.za /wiki/Karelia   (1388 words)

  
 Australian Information from Wikipedia
After the wars there were land mine clearance operations in Karelia and Lapland plus the enormous task of naval mine clearance in the Gulf of Finland and the Baltic Sea during 1944–1950.
Finland ceded most of Finnish Karelia, Salla, and Pechenga, which amounted to 10% of its land area, 20% of industrial capacity and 400,000 evacuees, mainly women and children.
Establishing trade with the Western powers, such as the Great Britain, and the reparations to the Soviet Union caused Finland to transform itself from a primarily agrarian economy to an industrialised one.
www.thinkingaustralia.com /thinking_australia/wikipedia/default.php?title=Finland   (5635 words)

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