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Swedish became the dominant language of administration and education; Finnish was chiefly a language for the peasantry, clergy and local courts in predominantly Finnish-speaking areas.
The land area is given in km², and the density in inhabitants per km² (land area).
Finnish is a member of the Finno-Ugric language family and is typologically between inflected and agglutinative languages.
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 Finland - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Municipalities co-operate in 74 sub-regions and 20 regions.
Strong Finnish sauna culture is one of the remains of the aboriginal Finnish culture.
Finnish cuisine is a mixture of European, Scandinavian (Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden) and Russian elements; table manners are European.
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 Top20Finland.com - Your Top20 Guide to Finland!
The Swedish kingdom systematically settled areas and built cities in Finland, particularly in the east, such as in Ingria and Kainuu.
Finnish people participated in wars of the Swedish kingdom, and Finnish warriors of Sweden's army became known as Hakkapeliittas.
The Finnish areas ceded to Russia in 1721 and 1743 (excluding Ingria) were called "Old Finland".
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 Finland
The Finnish landscape is mostly flat with few hills and its highest point, the Halti at 1,324 metres, is found in the extreme north of Lapland at the border between Finland and Norway.
The exception is the autonomous Åland Islands, where Finnish is not compulsory due to Swedish being the sole official language of the province.
The president is responsible for foreign policy outside of the European Union in cooperation with the cabinet (the Finnish Council of State) where most executive power lies, headed by the Prime Minister.
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  Sweden
Conclusive archaeological evidence exists that the area now comprising Sweden was settled during the Stone Age, as the inland ice of the last ice age receded.
Sami, Meänkieli, and Finnish may be used be used in dealing with municipal and government agencies, courts, preschools and nursing homes in parts of Norrbotten County.
Swedish literature is also vibrant and active, Sweden ranking third in the list of countries with most Nobel Prize laureates in literature.
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The Republic of Finland (Finnish: Suomi, Suomen tasavalta, Swedish: Republiken Finland (help·info)), is one of the Nordic countries.
The Finnish Parliament is celebrating its centenary in 2006–2007.On March 29, 1809, after being conquered by the armies of Russian Emperor Alexander I, Finland became an autonomous Grand Duchy under the Russian Empire until the end of 1917.
Notice that the capital area - comprising Helsinki, Vantaa, Espoo and Kauniainen - forms a continuous conurbation and might sometimes be considered as a single city in economic terms although the four of them are all independent cities.
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The purple area is Old Gutnish and the green area is the extent of the other Germanic languages with which Old Norse still retained some mutual intelligibility.
The Finland-Swedish minority is concentrated to the coastal areas and archipelagos of southern and western Finland.
Finnish, a Finno-Ugric language, is fundamentally different from Swedish in grammar and vocabulary and there is no mutual understanding between the two.
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 The City of Pori - Pori 2008
Whereas the most favourable alternative for the municipal economy is one where the municipalities get total use of their own taxation income with the gradual dismantling of the extra loads placed on them in the 1990s.
The starting point for preparing the Pori 2008 programme was that the relationship between the EU, the State and the municipalities would develop during the programme period as indicated by the Commission by gradually strengthening the true autonomous position of the municipalities.
The slight increase in the population of Pori is due to the excellent development of jobs in the city area, the new regional policy, the expansion of university education and the growth in the number of immigrants.
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