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| | Svecoman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | The Svecomans, or Svekomans, was a political movement in the Grand Duchy of Finland, chiefly reactionary to the demands vigorously conveyed by the Fennomans for the substitution of Swedish in state administration, courts and schools with the Finnish language, then spoken by approximately 90 percent of the country's population. |
 | | The Svecomans proposed the idea that Finland harboured two peoples, or nations, speaking different languages, having different cultures, and originating from separate parts of the country. |
 | | The feeling of unity between the Swedish-speaking countryfolk and the (remains of the) Swedish-speaking elite is the lasting legacy of the Svecoman movement, that became the core idea of the Swedish People's Party, when founded after the introduction of equal and common suffrage in 1906. |
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