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	Lappeenranta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lappeenranta (or Villmanstrand in Swedish) is a city and municipality that resides on the shore of the lake Saimaa in South-Eastern Finland, about 30 km from the Russian border.
		The city's main employers are: The City of Lappeenranta, UPM-Kymmene, South Karelia Central Hospital, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Paroc, Nordkalk, VR-Group, Cloetta Fazer, The Armed Forces, Larox and Pola.
		The proximity of the Russian border is increasingly visible in the number of Russian tourists visiting the city.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lappeenranta (289 words)

	Barentsinfo : Ulapland.fi/Kotisivut/Barents portal/Barents region/Fact sheet/Regions/Republic of Karelia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Karelia Republic is located to the north of St. Petersburg and borders Murmansk Region in the north, Leningrad and Vologda regions in the south, Arkhangelsk region in the east and Finland in the west.
		Karelia has a border with Finland (723 km), which is the longest border with the European Union among Russia’s regions.
		Karelia’s invaluable asset is its unspoiled environment, lakes and forests, as well as some outstanding monuments of architecture and history.
	www.barentsinfo.org /?deptid=16382 (1155 words)

	Municipalities of Finland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The municipalities (kunta in Finnish, kommun in Swedish) represent the local level of self-government in Finland and act as the basic regional administrative units of the country.
		The size of the council is proportional to the population, the extremes being 9 in Sottunga and 85 in Helsinki.
		Municipal managers (kunnanjohtaja or kaupunginjohtaja) are civil servants named by the council.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/M/Municipalities-of-Finland.htm (296 words)

	:: Koske - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		South Carelia Polytechnic is an institution of higher education, which is located in the towns of Lappeenranta and Imatra in Southeast Finland.
		The regional Council of Kymenlaakso is composed of 13 towns and municipalities.
		The Regional Council of South Karelia is a joint municipal authority of 14 member municipalities.
	www.koske.fi /english/kumppanit.php (512 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Municipalities control many community services, such as schools and health care, but they do not maintain roads, set laws or keep police forces.
		The old word for a municipality is pitäjä, "keeper", because when the system was instituted, one municipality kept one minister.
		From 1995 onwards only "municipality" is recogniced by law and any municipality that wishes so can call itself a town.
	snetinformation.info /index.php?title=Municipalities_of_Finland (176 words)

	Parikkala -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Parikkala is a (An urban district having corporate status and powers of self-government) municipality of (Republic in northern Europe; achieved independence from Russia in 1917) Finland.
		The municipality has a population of 4,426 (2003) and covers an area of 421.30 (Click link for more info and facts about km²) km² of which 96.96 km² is water.
		The municipality is unilingually (The official language of Finland; belongs to the Baltic Finnic family of languages) Finnish.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/P/Pa/Parikkala.htm (152 words)

	com.telia.ics.architecture.presentation.ActionPage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the wake of the broadband project of the South Karelian villages all telephone exchanges of the province have been provided with broadband capacity during the year.
		In South Karelia there are still approximately 1200 households and a great number of summer cottagers who cannot have broadband access.
		Broadband facilities were implemented as a joint project of the municipalities whereupon considerable savings were made on the administrative and competitive bidding expenses.
	www.startsidan.telia.se /com/telia/ics/portal/apps/press/PressReleasePage.html?id=119821&disclaimerId=&referer=PressIngressPage.html〈=EN&year=2005 (760 words)

	South Karelia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Russia with an outbreak in a village 350 kilometres south of the...
		The regions excluded from the ban include Kaliningrad, the Leningrad region and St Petersburg, Karelia and Murmansk...
		was born on June 23, 1937, in Vyborg, the capital of Karelia, a province...
	www.wikiverse.org /south-karelia (239 words)

	CONK! Encyclopedia: Rovaniemi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The city is completely surrounded by Rovaniemen maalaiskunta (Rural municipality of Rovaniemi).
		The two municipalities will be joined into one on January 1, 2006.
		Periodic clearance of new land for agriculture and the practice of slash-and-burn cultivation began around 750-530 B.C. Artifacts found in the area suggest that an increasing number of travellers from Karelia in the east, HÃ¤me in the south and the Arctic Ocean coast in the north must have come there from 500 A.D. onwards.
	www.conk.com /search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=Rovaniemi (734 words)

	physics - Municipalities of Finland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The municipalities (kunta in Finnish, kommun in Swedish) represent the local level of self government in Finland and also act as the basic regional administrative units of the country.
		In 2005 there are 444 Municipalities in Finland.
		Of these 111 are towns, 44 are bilingual and 3 are unilingually Finland-Swedish, plus the 16 municipalities on the unilingually Finland-Swedish Åland province.
	www.physicsdaily.com /physics/Municipalities_of_Finland (172 words)

	Nordic FAQ - 4 of 7 - FINLAND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Finland shares a common border in the north with Norway, in the east a long border (1,269 km) with Russia, on the south it is bordered by the Gulf of Finland, and on the west by the Gulf of Bothnia and Sweden.
		Karelia is joined to the Grand Duchy as an act of goodwill.
		Particularly in Karelia it is known (or sooner: believed) to have existed Viking trading posts, which became assimilated or alienated to the original Viking culture in Novgorod, Uppland, Gotland or wherever they had come from.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/nordic-faq/part4_FINLAND (17049 words)

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		Recently the infrastructure of South Karelia has been purposefully built for innovation, IT and communications, and industry and commerce.
		Finland's accession to the European Union in 1995 further increased South Karelia's attraction as a meeting place for businessmen from East and West.
		The major agent for a professional quality approach in South Karelian region is the local quality section of the national quality association.
	www.qualityintegration.biz /RegionalQuality.html (2256 words)

	South Karelia bei eLexi - das Onlinelexikon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It borders to the regions of Kymeenlaakso, Southern Savo, North Karelia and to Russia.
		300pxthumbThe Regions of North and South Karelia lie in Finland and the Karelian Republic in Russia.
		\nMain article: Heraldry of Karelia The coat of arms of South Karelia is composed of the arms of Karelia.
	www.elexi.de /en/s/so/south_karelia.html (324 words)

	flag of Northern Karelia region (Finland) flags
		It shows the historical coat of arms of Karelia on red with a white field added to the hoist.
		Since then it belonged to the Province of Käkisalmi (in Swedish: Kexholm; since 1946 known by its Russian name:Priozersk), which was given a coat of arms totally different – even though not less martial – from that of Viipuri Province: a burning silver castle on blue, surmounted by two cannon balls in flames.
		However, in the Finnish mind the "arms with the arms" are nowadays associated with everything related to Karelia; probably this is why contemporary North Karelia has chosen the "wrong" coat of arms, leaving the real heir South Karelia with an application.
	www.flags-of-the-world.net /flags/fi-nk.html (290 words)

	Municipalities Of Finland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Finland's municipal reform is two decades late -Sailas
		Among Finland's 432 municipalities, Helsinki's cost efficiency rating is 317th, meaning the capital is in the same league with the big, remote and troubled...
		The campaign is part of the Government Information Society Programme and it will be organised in close cooperation with companies, municipalities,...
	municipalities-of-finland.wikiverse.org (262 words)

	U.S.ENGLISH Foundation Official Language Research - Finland: Background
		Since 1992 the Sámi languages in Finland have had official status in their home region (the municipalities of Enontekiö, Inari and Utsjoki) as well as in the northern part of the municipality of Sodankylä.
		The Sámi Homeland, constituted by the four northernmost municipalities in the Province of Lapland (Utsjoki, Inari, Enontekiö and Sodankylä), is the area of relevance for the implementation of the 1991 Sámi Language Act and the 1995 Act on the Sámi Parliament.
		Under the new Act on Comprehensive Education, which entered into force at the beginning of 1999, Sámi children who live in the Sámi Homeland and speak Sámi are entitled to receive the main part of their education up to the ninth grade in the Sámi language.
	www.us-english.org /foundation/research/olp/viewResearch.asp?CID=60&TID=2 (2973 words)

	Kouvola Region Federation of Municipalities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Kouvola Region Federation of Municipalities is established in 1994 by the voluntary decisions of the 7 municipalities of Kouvola region.
		The operation expenses of the Federation are approximately 25 million euros per year and the amount of employees is about 350 and there are close to 3000 students in the vocational/apprenticeship contract -educational establishments.
		A consistent and competitive Region of Kouvola where the co-operation between the municipalities exists extensively taking the community members and the various interest groups into consideration.
	www.finrusoffice.net /opencms.war/opencms/finrusoffice_brussels/en/members/toimija_6.html (159 words)

	South Karelia - Municipalities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Lake Saimaa’s brilliant blue waters account for one third of the entire surface area of the municipality of Joutseno, and at Hinkanranta Beach the delights of the Lake are made all the more exhilarating.
		Additionally, the municipality is planning to build a nature centre, ‘Norpankoti’, on the southern shore of Lake Saimaa where you will be able to explore the wonders of the underwater world.
		Situated in the middle of South Karelia, Ruokolahti is the largest municipality in the region of Etelä-Suomi (South Finland) in terms of its surface area.
	kuutti.etela-karjala.fi /makuva/en-kunnat.htm (3240 words)

	Rauha Tiuru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Federation of Municipalities of the South Karelia Hospital District, Lappeenrannan Seudun Elinkeino ja Matkailu Oy (Lappeenranta Business Development Company) and Imatran Seudun Kehitysyhtiö Oy (Imatra Region Development Company) hereby agree on the implementation of a project to market the Rauha and Tiuru areas.
		The basic principle of the proposals to be made under the marketing project is to commercially utilise the hospital area and the buildings in the area.
		The utilisation of key business and other activity in South Karelia and the preservation and strengthening of the characteristics, natural conditions and history of the place and its environment will be taken into consideration in the project.
	www.ekarjala.fi /rauhatiuru/e_marketing.html (228 words)

	Ruokolahti . Imatra . 2003 . Finland . South Karelia . Municipalities of Finland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Municipalities of Finland municipality of Ruokolahti is situated in south-eastern Finland, in the regions of Finland region of South Karelia.
		The municipalities kunta in Finnish language Finnish, kommun in Finland-Swedish Swedish represent the local level of self government in Finland and also act as the basic regional administrative units of the country.
		East of the River Nile is a 1977 reggaedub music dub album see 1977 in music by Jamaican musician Augustus Pablo.
	www.uk.fraquisanto.net /Ruokolahti (453 words)

	South Karelia - Tiedotteet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The everyday life of the area has long involved both the industry and the forests that serve as its source of raw material as has the transportation potential of the water routes.
		History is present in the Middle way Väliväylä, one of the best canoeing routes in South Karelia, which takes you from Lake Saimaa through Lake Kivijärvi to the River Kymijoki as far as the Gulf of Finland.
		Other magnificent canoeing resorts offered by the South Karelia waterways, such as Lake Kuolimo, Lake Simpelejärvi and the smaller lake districts are indicated on the new Map of South Karelia canoeing and boating routes, which is available from the tourist offices of the municipalities and from various tourist enterprises by the lakes.
	kanava.etela-karjala.fi /Tiedote.asp?Sivunumero=1&TiedoteID=1632&NakymaID=27 (243 words)

	com.telia.ics.architecture.presentation.ActionPage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The agreement, based on tendering, is the first step in the co-operation of the municipalities that was launched at the beginning of this year and yielded a co-operation agreement on information technology and on support services based on ICT.
		The municipality has signed an agreement with TeliaSonera Network Sales for the build-out of a municipality-wide broadband network, which in combination with the municipality's own network, will have a penetration of approximately 100 percent of the municipality.
		Skanova broadband for Municipality of Herrljunga by year-end
	www.startsidan.telia.se /com/telia/ics/portal/apps/press/PressIngressPage.html?lang=en&year=2004 (8790 words)

	Regional Council of South Karelia - Etusivu
		This part of Karelia has been a borderland between eastern and western cultures for centuries.
		The Regional Council of South Karelia is a joint municipal authority of 12 member municipalities.
		EU's regional Objective Programmes for South Karelia have also been prepared in the Regional Council.
	194.251.35.222 /?NakymaID=93 (168 words)

	ETELÄ-KARJALAN ALLERGIA- JA YMPÄRISTÖINSTITUUTTI
		Since 1989 the Slot Machine association has grant allowance to the Institute.
		Different researches have been financed by many institutions, such as the Academy of Finland, The Ministry of the Environment, The Technology Development Centre, municipalities of South Karelia, The Allergy and Asthma Federation and the local industry.
		Timo Hugg and the chairman of board is Kalevi Markku.
	cat.teho.net /software/ekay/e-site/ine (207 words)

	South Karelia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It borders to the regions of Southern Savonia North Karelia and to Russia.
		The Regions of North and South Karelia in Finland and the Karelian Republic in The Karelian Isthmus is part of the Oblast.
		It is constantly getting knocked off the couch onto the floor or dropped and it is still works as great as it did a year ago when we bought it.
	www.freeglossary.com /South_Karelia (217 words)

	Digital Media Asia: News - Sonera to deliver high-speed regional network to South Karelian municipalities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sonera is to supply Tietomaakunta e-Karjala with a top-speed data network based on the Sonera Regional Network solution and build the availability of trunk network connections with the speed of up to 10 Gb/s to all 14 towns and municipalities of South Karelia.
		The network will provide a steady platform for the networking operations and network services of the South Karelian municipalities, as well as the South Karelian educational federation of municipalities, the South Karelian hospital district and the South Karelian rescue department.
		The agreement is a continuation of co-operation that began in 1999.
	www.digitalmediaasia.com /?ArticleID=3739&cachecommand=bypass&Print=true (327 words)

	Emailtoday.com: Sonera Strengthens its Messaging Services with Software.com’s InterMail® Platform (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In addition to being used by all of Sonera’s consumer Internet users today, the enhanced email system is currently in use in a project dubbed “South Karelia Toward Information Society” spearheaded by the Regional Council of South Karelia and Lappeenranta University of Technology in Finland.
		The purpose of the project is to boost high-tech business in South Karelia and to ensure the province’s strong position in tomorrow’s European information society.
		The South Karelian information network, which is to be built for the use of the region’s municipalities, schools and health care district, will be one of the most extensive regional network solutions in Finland.
	www.emailtoday.com /emailtoday/pr/software_nov101999.htm (784 words)

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