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Here is a post I wrote about the history of Helsinki/Helsingfors - if somebody wants to read before hand already

Happy Birthday Helsinki!

I hope no offence taken, but I’d like to extend a bit and make a couple of small corrections. Let’s go back to the beginning. There were many settlers coming from Sweden’s western parts to find a living in the eastern parts about during years 1000-1300. These settlers landed in numbers around nowadays Helsinki and the whole province is still today called “Newland”, in Swedish Nyland, Finnish Uusimaa. Note that they did not settle into Finland, because “Finland” was a provi…

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