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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A country of northern Europe on the Gulf of Bothnia and the Gulf of Finland. Settled by Finnish people by the beginning of the 8th century, the region was controlled from the 13th century by Sweden and after 1809 by Russia. Finland became independent in 1917. Helsinki is the capital and the largest city.
- Gulf of,An arm of the Baltic Sea bordering on Finland, Russia, and Estonia. An important shipping lane, the shallow gulf is usually frozen from December to March.
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- proper noun One of the
Nordic countries having borders withSweden ,Norway andRussia . Member state of theEuropean Union since 1995. Official name: Republic of Finland (Suomen tasavalta in Finnish,Republiken Finland in Swedish).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun republic in northern Europe; achieved independence from Russia in 1917
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Link ahem…As a finnish person, i feel it necessarily to point out that finland is only a tango loving, drunk suicidal depressed nation…it is also the nation where Santa lives :D if you post a postcard in europe, asia and africa atleast adressed to “santa”..it will end up in Rovaniemi, Finland.
A Rare Day in the Limelight - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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SOVIET FORCES INVADED FINLAND (See Nov. 301940, March 12), and Finland appealed to the League of Nations (Dec. 3), which responded (Dec. 14) by expelling the Soviet Union from the League.
Oct. 5 2001
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Not even the Baltic provinces, where Germans hold almost the same position as the Swedes in Finland, form an object for the German desire of conquest, but her wish is to make them, as also _Finland_, an independent State.
New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915 Various
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Finland we venture to quote somewhat freely from Senator L. Mechelin's excellent book, _A Précis of the Public L.w of Finland_, translated from the French original into English by Mr. Charles J. Cooke, formerly
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U.S. 3, FINLAND 2: The United States scored three goals in a four-minute span to beat Finland 3-2 Wednesday in the quarterfinals of the hockey world championships in Bern,
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FINLAND RUSSIA EUROPE AFRICA location of the art centre Finland is the northernmost country of the European Union and has a long border with Russia.
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FINLAND: Constellation lines up importer for Finland
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Rantasipi Ruka Kuusamo RUKATUNTURINTIE 5 93825 RUKATUNTURI KUUSAMO FINLAND, Rukatunturi Kuusamo, Oulu Province, Finland
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009
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Cheers, especially for F-Secure Ladies and not only in Finland is very cold and snowy.
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The paper cites "political observers" who say the increasingly frosty attitude toward the EU in Finland is noteworthy because the geographically isolated country is not part of NATO and has traditionally viewed the EU as a vital link to the West and guarantor of its security.
True Finns Richard 2006
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