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| | ipedia.com: Finland Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | The Republic of Finland (Finnish: Suomi, Swedish: Finland) is a Nordic country in northeastern Europe, bounded by the Baltic Sea to the southwest, the Gulf of Finland to the southeast and the Gulf of Bothnia to the west, and has land frontiers with Sweden, Norway and Russia and a maritime border with Estonia. |
 | | Swedish became the dominant language of administration and education; Finnish chiefly a language for the peasantry, held useful mainly for printing religious literature. |
 | | To counteract Russian replacing Swedish, and also to sever the cultural and emotional ties with Sweden, Finnish was ardently promoted by both the empirial court and the Finnish government and a strong nationalist movement, known as the fennomania. |
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