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The following are the national records in Olympic weightlifting in Finland. Records are maintained in each weight class for the snatch lift, clean and jerk lift, and the total for both lifts by the (Suomen Painonnostoliitto).

Finnish nationalism

The Finnish national road 1 (Finnish: Valtatie 1 or Ykköstie; Swedish: Riksväg 1) is the main route between the major cities of Helsinki and Turku in southern Finland. It runs from Munkkiniemi in Helsinki to the VI District of Turku, and is part of the European route E18. The road is a motorway for its whole length.

Finnish presidential election, 1978

The Finnish nobility (Finnish: Aateli; Swedish: Adel) was historically a privileged class in Finland, deriving from its period as part of Sweden and the Russian Empire. Noble families and their descendants are still a part of Finnish republican society, but except for the titles themselves, no longer retain any specific or granted privileges. A majority of Finnish nobles have traditionally been Swedish-speakers using their titles mostly in Swedish. The Finnish nobility today has some 6,000 male and female members.

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Finnish motor torpedo boat Sisu

During World War II some 70,000 Finnish children (Finnish: sotalapset, the 'war children' Swedish: krigsbarn) were evacuated from Finland, chiefly to Sweden, but also to Norway and Denmark. Most were evacuated during the Continuation War (1941-1944) to ease the situation for their parents who set out to rebuild their homes in the re-conquered Karelia returning from the 1940 evacuation of Finnish Karelia. The first surge of evacuees arrived, however, during the Winter War when the Finns had reasons to fear a humanitarian catastrophe following the expected Soviet occupation.

Finnish nominals, which include pronouns, adjectives, and numerals, are declined in a large number of grammatical cases, whose uses and meanings are detailed here. See also Finnish grammar. Many meanings expressed by case markings in Finnish correspond to phrases or expressions containing prepositions in most Indo-European languages. Because so much information is coded in Finnish through its cases, the use of adpositions (postpositions in this case) is more limited than in English, for instance.

Finnish whisky

The Finnish order of precedence is a nominal and symbolic hierarchy of important positions within the government of Finland. It has no legal standing, it does not reflect the Finnish presidential line of succession or the co-equal status of the branches of government under the constitution, and is only used to indicate ceremonial protocol. 1.
* President of the Republic Sauli Niinistö 2.
* Retired Presidents of the Republic in order of term: 3. 1.
* President Martti Ahtisaari 4. 2.
* President Tarja Halonen 5.
* Speaker of the Parliament Paula Risikko 6.
* Prime Minister Juha Sipilä 7.
* President of the Supreme Court 8.
* President of the Supreme Administrative Court 9.
* Chief of Defence Jarmo Lindberg 10.
* Chancellor of Justice Jaakko Jonkka 11.
* Archbishop of Turku Tapio Luoma 12.
* Chancellor of the Order of the Cross of Liberty Gustav Hägglund 13.
* Chancellor of the Order of the White Rose of Finland and the Order of the Lion of Finland 14.
* Chancellor of the University of Helsinki

Vetehinen was a 500-tonne Vetehinen-class submarine that was constructed in the early 1930s, which served in the Finnish Navy during the Second World War. The submarine was the first ship of its class of three submarines. The name vetehinen means "merman".

Finnish municipal election, 2000

Finnish motor torpedo boat Taisto

Finnish national men's ice hockey team 1995 World Championships roster This is the Finnish national men's ice hockey team's roster to the 1995 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championships. Manager: Heikki Riihiranta Coaches: Curt LindströmHannu Aravirta Other Personnel: Juhani Ikonen (Medical Attendant)Jari Rautiainen (Physio)Veli-Matti Pohjonen (Masseur)Tomi Mäkipää (Equipment Manager)Aleksander Surenkin (Equipment Maintenance)Mika Saarinen (Statistics)Esko Nokelainen (Scouting)

Verbs in the Finnish language can be divided into six main groups depending on the stem type, both for formal analysis and for teaching the language to non-native speakers. All six types have the same set of personal endings, but the stems assume different suffixes and undergo (slightly) different changes when inflected. The article on Finnish language grammar has more about verbs and other aspects of Finnish grammar.

Finnish torpedo boat S1

Finnish whisky was first distilled from 1981 to 2000 at the Koskenkorva alcohol distillery in Ilmajoki, Finland, run by the state-owned alcohol monopoly Alko (later Primalco, now Altia). After years of research and trials, the first brand to enter Finnish liquor stores was simply called Alko Whisky. In 1983 Alko introduced Viski 88 (later called Double Eight 88) that became the best-selling whisky in Finland and remained in production until the year 2000. A 10-year-old whisky was sold from 1991, until the company discontinued all whisky production in 2000. The second coming for Finnish whisky took place on 8 November 2001 at Panimoravintola Beer Hunter's in the city of Pori. There are currently two operational distilleries in Finland, however, there is also a number of projects to bring forth many more in the future.

Finnish pesapallo match-fixing scandal

Finnish parliamentary election 1936

Finnish submarine Vesikko

Finnish transport vessel Wilhelm Carpelan

Valtatie 29, Riksväg 29

Citizenship of Finland can be obtained on the basis of birth, marriage of parents, adoption, or the place of birth. In addition, it may be acquired by application or by declaration to authorities. Finnish citizenship acquisition is based primarily on the legal principle of jus sanguinis. However, for many practical purposes, the concepts of municipal domicile and domicile in Finland are as important to the relation between the individual and the Finnish authorities as the individual's citizenship status.

Finnish parliamentary elections 2007

Vesihiisi was a Finnish 500-tonne Vetehinen-class submarine that was constructed in the early 1930s. The vessel served in the Finnish Navy during the second World War.

Finnish presidential election, 2000

Finnish parliament elections, 2011

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Finnish presidential election, 1956

Finnish patrol boat Roytta

Finnish nationality

Finnish motorcycle grand prix

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Finnish–Turkish relations

Iku-Turso

Finnish torpedo boat S 2

Finnish motor torpedo boat V3

Finnish parliamentary election, 1933

Finnish municipal election, 1992

Vesikko

Finnish patrol boat Rymattyla

Finnish parliament elections 2011

Finnish municipal elections, 2008

Finnish parliamentary election, 1919

Finnish municipal election, 2008

Vesihiisi

Finnish parliamentary election, 1962

Finnish registration plates

VTV-1 was originally a Soviet type 1125 armored motor boat with the designation No 215. It was captured by Finnish troops in 1941, after it had been damaged by artillery fire and beached by its crew. The Finns swiftly repaired the ship, and in October 1941 VTV-1 took part in a reconnaissance-in-force aimed at the island of Sommers.

Halli (899) is a modified, enlarged Hylje-design, and acts as a combined pollution cleanup and vehicle transport ship. She is also operated by a civilian crew from the Ministry of Environment but is under Navy control. The vessel can act as a landing ship and logistic support vessel. The 11-metre (36 ft) bow ramp can be used to load or unload vehicles up to 48 tons. As a cleanup vessel, she can sweep a 30-metre (98 ft) path at 1.5 knots (2.8 km/h; 1.7 mph) with her MacGregor-Navire MacLORI pollution collection system. The vessel is equipped with a 360-cubic-metre (13,000 cu ft) waste-collection tank. The ship was built in 1986 and refitted in 2010.

Finnish parliamentary election, 1991

Finnish parliamentary election, 1948

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Finnish statesmen

Finnish national road 3 (Finnish: Valtatie 3 or Kolmostie; Swedish: Riksväg 3) is a highway in Finland between Helsinki and Vaasa via Tampere. The road is 424 kilometres (263 mi) long and it is part of the European route E12. 180 kilometres (110 mi) of the highway is motorway, connecting Helsinki to Tampere. North of Tampere, the road is mostly two-lane road, with a share of 2+1 road.

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Finnish parliamentary election, 1983

Finnish submarine Vetehinen

Finnish submarine AG-16

Finnish occupation of the Soviet Union

Finnish union of practical nurses

Finnish parliamentary elections, 2011

Finnish parliamentary election, 1954

Finnish records in athletics

Finnish singers

Finnish torpedo boat S2

Finnish rock music

War reparations of Finland to the Soviet Union were originally worth US$300,000,000 at 1938 prices. Finland agreed to pay the reparations in the Moscow Armistice signed on 19 September 1944. The protocol to determine more precisely the war reparations to the Soviet Union was signed in December 1944, by the prime minister Juho Kusti Paasikivi and the chairman of the Allied Control Commission for controlling the Moscow Armistice in Helsinki, Andrei Zhdanov. Finland was originally obliged to pay $300,000,000 in gold to be paid in the form of ships and machinery, over six years. The Soviet Union agreed to prolong the payment period from six to eight years in late 1945. In summer 1948 the sum was cut to $226,500,000. The last dispatched train of the deliveries paying the war reparations crossed the border between Finland and the Soviet Union on 18 September 1952, in Vainikkala railway border station. Approximately 340,000 railroad carloads were needed to deliver all reparations. The authority responsible for deliveries, and also organising production agreements with the manufacturers according to the protocols, was Sotakorvausteollisuuden valtuuskunta, the delegation of the war reparations industry. The preliminary committee was established on 9 October 1944. It was chaired by the mining counselor , with as secretary, and , Juho Jännes, Johan Nykopp, , and Wilhelm Wahlforss as members.

Nationalism was a central force in the History of Finland for the last two centuries. The Finnish national awakening in the mid-19th century was the result of members of the Swedish-speaking upper classes deliberately choosing to promote Finnish culture and language as a means of nation building—i.e. to establish a feeling of unity between all people in Finland including (and not of least importance) between the ruling elite and the ruled peasantry. The publication in 1835 of the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala, a collection of traditional myths and legends which is the folklore common to the Finns and to the Karelian people (the Finnic Russian Orthodox people who inhabit the Lake Ladoga-region of eastern Finland and present-day NW Russia), stirred the nationalism that later led to Finland's independence from Russia. Nationalism was contested by the pro-Russian element and by the internationalism of the labor movement. The result was a tendency toward class conflict over nationalism, but in the early 1900s the working classes split into the Valpas (class struggle emphasis) and Mäkelin (nationalist emphasis).

Finnish noun cases

Hylje (799) is a combined pollution cleanup ship and vehicle transport ship built in 1981 and refitted in 1990–1991. She is operated by a civilian crew from the Ministry of the Environment, but is under Finnish Navy control. The vessel can act as a landing ship and logistic support vessel. The vessel has a capacity to carry 100 tons of deck cargo and its bow ramp can unload vehicles up to 42 tons. The vessel is equipped with oil and oil-slurry collection tanks with a total capacity of 1,410 cubic metres (50,000 cu ft). The vessel can be operated in light ice. Hylje is equipped with a 6-ton crane.

Finnish phonotactics

Finnish national road 4

Finnish motorcycle Grand Prix

Finnish motor torpedo boat Vasama

Finnish parliamentary election in 2011

Halli

S1 Shrapnell (initially)Wilhelm Carpelan

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Finnish tango

Finnish national men's ice hockey team 1995 World Championships roster

Finnish submarine vesikko

Finnish parliamentary election, 1913

Finnish rock art

Finnish tango (Finnish: suomalainen tango), or FINtango, music is an established variation of the Argentine tango but whose rhythm follows the Ballroom tango. It was one of the most popular music forms for decades in Finland. Brought to Europe in the 1910s, and to Finland itself in 1913, by travelling musicians, Finns began to take up the form and write their own tangos in the 1930s. The first Finnish tango was written by Emil Kauppi in 1914 for a film called Salainen perintömääräys (meaning The Secret Testament). It features a typical Finnish rhythm pattern with habanera. In the 1920s the tango was danced exclusively by Helsinki’s bohemians. By the 1940s about half of the entries on the popular music charts were occupied by tangos, and the post war period saw tangos spread from a popular urban phenomenon to their enthusiastic adoption by the countryside as well. Finnish tango peaked in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Special characteristics of Finnish tango include the change of rhythm to beguine during chorus. Also habanera rhythm is used often. The bandoneon was replaced by the accordion and drums were added. The Finnish tango is distinguished from other forms of tango by its almost exclusive performance in minor keys and themes reflecting established conventions in Finnish folklore. As the head of the Finnish National Broadcaster's gramophone library explains, "The central themes of Finnish tango lyrics are love, sorrow, nature and the countryside. Many tangos express a longing for the old homestead, or a distant land of happiness. The changing seasons of Finnish nature are frequently used metaphors: the spring breaks the hold of the winter, and flowers appear, creating new expectations. Autumn rains and dark evenings are symbols of crushed hopes." One of the highlights of Finnish summers is the Tangomarkkinat, or tango festival, held annually since 1985 in the central Finnish town of Seinäjoki. The festival attracts more than 100,000 participants annually (from a population of just over 5 million) and is capped by the coronation of the tango King and Queen, who receive much domestic media attention and often recording contracts as well. Another tango festival is the International Helsinki Frostbite Tango Festival. The city of Tampere hosts the much smaller annual Maailmantango (World of Tango festival). The most well known Finnish tango composers are Olavi Virta ("Punatukkaiselle tytölleni"), Toivo Kärki ("Liljankukka") and Unto Mononen ("Satumaa").

Finnish passports are issued to nationals of Finland for the purpose of international travel. Aside from serving as proof of Finnish nationality, they facilitate the process of securing assistance from Finnish consular officials abroad (or other EU consulates in case a Finnish consular official is absent). Finnish passports share the standardised layout and burgundy-red cover with other EU countries. Passports are issued by the local police or by an authorised Finnish diplomatic mission abroad. Men who are less than 30 years of age and consequently eligible for military service, but have not completed it, may only be issued a passport with an expiration date up to the last legal start date for completion of the obligation, which is at the age of 28. Men older than 30 can receive a passport with normal expiry dates regardless of the status of completion of the military duty. Every Finnish citizen is also a citizen of the European Union. The passport, along with the national identity card allows for free rights of movement and residence in any of the states of the European Union and European Economic Area.

Finnish tractors

Finnish presidential election, 1994

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Finnish patrol boat Rymaettylae

*Prozorlivy (Прозорливый) (1902-1918)

Finnish sporting history

Finnish science fiction fandom started getting organized in Finland when the first science fiction club (the Turku Science Fiction Society) was founded in Turku in 1976. The first fan conventions were in 1982 and 1985. The Finnish national convention, Finncon, was established in 1986. One of the main actors to start an active fan culture in Finland was Tom Ölander. Biggest semiprozines in Finland are Portti, edited by Raimo Nikkonen, and Tähtivaeltaja, edited by Toni Jerrman.

Finnish mythology is a commonly applied description of the folklore of Finnish paganism, of which a modern revival is practiced by a small percentage of the Finnish people. It has many features shared with fellow Finnic Estonian mythology and other Uralic mythologies, but also shares some similarities with neighbouring Baltic, Slavic and, to a lesser extent, Norse mythologies. Finnish mythology survived within an oral tradition of mythical poem-singing and folklore well into the 19th century. Of the animals, the most sacred was the bear, whose real name was never uttered out loud, lest his kind be unfavorable to the hunting. The bear ("karhu" in Finnish) was seen as the embodiment of the forefathers, and for this reason it was called by many circumlocutions: mesikämmen ("mead-paw"), otso ("browed one"), kontio ("dweller of the land"), metsän kultaomena ("the golden apple of the forest") but not a god.

Finnish swearwords

Finnish national road 29 (Finnish: Valtatie 29; Swedish: Riksväg 29) is a highway in Finland between Keminmaa and Tornio. The road is part of the European route E8, except for the one kilometer section between the national boundary and the intersection with the , where the road is part of the European route E4.

Finnish science fiction fandom

Finnish presidential election, 1950

Finnish passport

Finnish motor torpedo boat Hyrsky

Finnish motor torpedo boat Tuisku

The Finnish order of precedence is a nominal and symbolic hierarchy of important positions within the government of Finland. It has no legal standing, it does not reflect the Finnish presidential line of succession or the co-equal status of the branches of government under the constitution, and is only used to indicate ceremonial protocol.

Finnish myths

Finnish national basketball team

Finnish motor torpedo boat Syoeksy

Finnish sportspersonality of the year

Finnish national road 4 (Finnish: Valtatie 4 or Nelostie; Swedish: Riksväg 4 or Riksfyran) is a highway in Finland. It is the main route from Helsinki to Northern Finland and a major road link in the country. It runs from Erottaja in Helsinki to Sami Bridge in Utsjoki. The road is 1,295 kilometres (805 mi) long. The road is also part of the European route E75 and it is a part of TERN.

Iku-Turso was a 500-tonne Vetehinen-class submarine that served in the Finnish Navy during the Second World War. It was launched in May 1931 and was named after a Finnish sea monster, Iku-Turso. It was built by the Crichton-Vulcan shipyard in Turku according to a project developed by NV Ingenieurskantoor voor Scheepsbouw, "IvS", and was scrapped in 1953.

The startup scene in Finland has given birth to companies such as Nokia, Angry Birds, Supercell, Wolt, and many others. Entrepreneurship itself in Finland is quite an old phenomenon. However, as everywhere else, the first startups appeared in the early 1990s and some faced demise with the end of dot-com bubble in early 2000.

Finnish patrol gunboat VTV-1

Finnish naval armament program

The signalling system used on the railway network in Finland comprises color-light signals and fixed signs, used together with the Automatic Train Control system ATP-VR/RHK (an EBICAB 900 system better known as JKV, Finnish: junakulunvalvonta).

Finnish national ice hockey team

Finnish unit

Finnish women's hockey team

The Finnish Navy used several different types of motor torpedo boats during World War II. Four Soviet motor torpedo boats were captured and commissioned by the Finnish Navy during the World War II. One of these was of larger D-3 class while three others belonged to G-5 class.

Finnish war reparations to the Soviet Union

Finnish polytheism

Finnish–Estonian defence co-operation

Finniss (formerly Queen's Own Town) is a settlement in South Australia. It is on the Victor Harbor railway line just the Adelaide side of where it crosses the Finniss River. The town was originally surveyed with the name Queen's Own Town (after the Queens Own Regiment of Foot) in 1867 as the railway line was being extended from Goolwa to Strathalbyn. The name of the town was not changed to Finniss until 1940, although the adjacent railway station had already been named Finniss in honour of an early surveyor and the first Premier of South Australia, Colonel Boyle Travers Finniss.

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VTV-1 was originally a Soviet type 1125 armored motor boat with the designation No 215. It was captured by Finnish troops in 1941, after it had been damaged by artillery fire and beached by its crew. The Finns swiftly repaired the ship, and in October 1941 VTV-1 took part in a reconnaissance-in-force aimed at the island of Sommers. VTV-1 was transferred to Lake Onega in June 1942. It was the only ship of the "Onega Flotilla" that could truly be considered a match for any of the opposing Soviet naval vessels on the lake. Once Finnish forces started withdrawing from Onega VTV-1 was transported by rail to Finland. The ship was returned to the Soviet Union in 1944.

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Finnish parliamentary election, 1939

Finnish parliamentary election 2007

Finnish numbers

Finnish motor torpedo boat Hyöky

Louhi (pennant number 999) is a Finnish multipurpose oil and chemical spill response vessel owned by the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), but manned and operated by the Finnish Navy. The ship, ordered in 2007, was built by Uki Workboat in Uusikaupunki, Finland, and entered service in May 2011.

Finnish Neopaganism, or the Finnish native faith (Finnish: Suomenusko: "Finnish Religion") is the contemporary Neopagan revival of Finnish paganism, the pre-Christian polytheistic ethnic religion of the Finns. A precursor movement was the Ukonusko ("Ukko's Faith", revolving around the god Ukko) of the early 20th century. The main problem in the revival of Finnish paganism is the nature of pre-Christian Finnish culture, which relied on oral tradition and of which very little is left. The primary sources concerning Finnish native culture are written by latter-era Christians. There are two main organisations of the religion, the "Association of Finnish Native Religion" (Suomalaisen kansanuskon yhdistys ry) based in Helsinki and officially registered since 2002, and the "Pole Star Association" (Taivaannaula ry) headquartered in Turku with branches in many cities, founded and officially registered in 2007. The Association of Finnish Native Religion also caters to Karelians and is a member of the Uralic Communion.

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Finnish presidential election, 1937

Finnish presidential election, 2006

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Finnish parliamentary election, 1972

Finnish national football team

Finnish motor torpedo boat Syoksy

Finnish municipal elections, 2000

Finnish parliamentary election, 2007

Finnish verb conjugation

Finnish national parks

Finnish national road 7 (Finnish: Valtatie 7; Swedish: Riksväg 7) is a highway in Finland. It runs from Erottaja in Helsinki to the Russian frontier at the Vaalimaa border crossing point in Virolahti. The road is 189 kilometres (117 mi) long. The road is also European route E18 and it is a part of TERN.

Finnish school shooting

Finnish municipal elections, 1992

Finnish poetry

Finnishness

Finnish national road 7

Finnish pollution control vessel Louhi

Finnish parliamentary election, 1927

Finnish phonetics

Finnish presidential election, 1943

Finnish presidential election, 1925

Finnish tribes

In Finland, a person must have a surname and can have up to three given names. Surnames are inherited either patrilineally or matrilineally, while given names are usually chosen by a person's parents. Finnish names come from a variety of dissimilar traditions that were consolidated only in the early 20th century. The first national act on names came into force in 1921, and it made surnames mandatory. Between 1930 and 1985, the Western Finnish tradition whereby a married woman took her husband's surname was mandatory. Previously in Eastern Finland, this was not necessarily the case. Finnish given names are often of Christian origin (e.g., Jukka from Greek Johannes), but Finnish and Swedish origins are also common. In Finnish, the letter "j" denotes the approximant [j], as in English you. For example, the two different names Maria and Marja are pronounced nearly identically. The letter "y" denotes the vowel [y], not found in English, but similar to German "ü" and French "u". "R" is rolled. The stress is always on the first syllable in Finnish. For example, Yrjö Kääriäinen is pronounced [ˈyrjø ˈkæːri.æinen]. Double letters always stand for a geminate or longer sound (e.g., Marjaana has a stressed short [ɑ] followed by an unstressed long [ɑː]). Pronunciation of Swedish names is similar, but long vowels are not doubled and the stress may be on any syllable. Finland has a long bilingual history and it is not unusual for Finnish speakers to have Swedish surnames or given names. Such names may be pronounced according to Finland–Swedish phonology or, depending on the person named, the person speaking and the language used, a Fennicized variant. When writing Finnish names without the Finnish alphabet available (such as in e-mail addresses), the letters "ä" and "ö" are usually replaced with "a" and "o", respectively (e.g., Pääkkönen as Paakkonen). This is not the same, but visually recognizable.

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Finnish women writers

Finnish Neopaganism, or the Finnish native faith (Finnish: Suomenusko: "Finnish Religion") is the contemporary Neopagan revival of Finnish paganism, the pre-Christian polytheistic ethnic religion of the Finns. A precursor movement was the Ukonusko ("Ukko's Faith", revolving around the god Ukko) of the early 20th century. The main problem in the revival of Finnish paganism is the nature of pre-Christian Finnish culture, which relied on oral tradition and of which very little is left. The primary sources concerning Finnish native culture are written by latter-era Christians.

Finnish parliamentary election, 1979

Finnish whisky was first distilled from 1981 to 2000 at the Koskenkorva alcohol distillery in Ilmajoki, Finland, run by the state-owned alcohol monopoly Alko (later Primalco, now Altia). After years of research and trials, the first brand to enter Finnish liquor stores was simply called Alko Whisky. In 1983 Alko introduced Viski 88 (later called Double Eight 88) that became the best-selling whisky in Finland and remained in production until the year 2000. A 10-year-old whisky was sold from 1991, until the company discontinued all whisky production in 2000.

Finnish national Australian rules football team

Finnish parliamentary election, 1909

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Finnish–Estonian defence cooperation

Finnish pagan

Finnish political parties

Finnish–Kosovan relations

Finnish startup scene

Finnish motor torpedo boat Jyry

Finnish railway signalling

Finnish submarine AG-12

Finniss, South Australia

Vesikko is a submarine (the single ship of her class), which was launched on 10 May 1933 at the Crichton-Vulcan dock in Turku. Until 1936 it was named by its manufacturing codename CV 707. Vesikko was ordered by a Dutch engineering company Ingenieurskantoor voor Scheepsbouw (a German front company) in 1930 as a commercial submarine prototype. Purchased by the Finnish before the war, she saw service in the Winter War and World War II, sinking the Soviet merchant ship Vyborg as her only victory. After the cease-fire with the Allies in 1944, Vesikko was retired. Finland was banned from operating submarines after the war and she was kept in storage until she was turned into a museum ship. Vesikko was one of five submarines to serve in the Finnish Navy. The other four were the three larger Vetehinen-class boats Vetehinen, Vesihiisi, Iku-Turso and the small Saukko. The word "vesikko" is the Finnish name for the European mink.

Finnish rock art pictographs created during the Stone Age have been found at 127 sites around Finland. They consist mainly of brownish-red figures and markings painted onto steep granite walls, often overlooking waterways. There are scenes featuring people, boats, elk, fish and mysterious part human figures. The survival of the art in adverse climatic conditions is due to their protection by a naturally forming thin layer of silicon dioxide on the rock surface.

Finnish units of measurement

Finnish universities

The Finnish nobility (Finnish: Aateli; Swedish: Adel) was historically a privileged class in Finland, deriving from its period as part of Sweden and the Russian Empire. Noble families and their descendants are still a part of Finnish republican society, but except for the titles themselves, no longer retain any specific or granted privileges. A majority of Finnish nobles have traditionally been Swedish-speakers using their titles mostly in Swedish. The Finnish nobility today has some 6,000 male and female members. The Finnish nobility is organized into classes according to a scheme introduced in the Act on the Organisation of the House of Nobility (Fi. Ritarihuonejärjestys, Sw. Riddarhusordningen). The ranks (compare with royal and noble ranks) granted were (Swedish / Finnish):
* furste / ruhtinas (corresponding approximately to crowned or Sovereign Prince in the German sense. Compare Charles, crowned Prince of Wales and Albert II, Sovereign Prince of Monaco)
* greve / kreivi (corresponding to Count)
* friherre / vapaaherra (corresponding approximately to baron)
* riddare / ritari (translated as "knights", but actually equivalent to English baronets, since the rank is heritable) a higher class of untitled nobility, which was formed for descendants of members of the Royal Council of Sweden and in 1778 came to include the eldest families and the families of knight commanders of royal chivalric orders; this class encompassed 73 families in Finland. The class was merged with the untitled nobility in 1863.
* herr (svenneklassen) / herra (asemiesluokka), untitled nobility. Under the above Act on the Organisation of the House of Nobility, the head of each family had a seat in the House. There also existed a proxy system according to which the head of the family could be represented by another male member of the same family or even by a male member of another family by proxy. Finnish Dukes after the Middle Ages were always princes of the , and counted as such. Following elevation into nobility by the monarch, the key concept was that of "introduction" to ones peers at the House of Nobility (Fi. Ritarihuone / Sw. Riddarhuset), which was a chamber in the Diet of Finland (1809–1906), the then Parliament, and in the Riksdag of the Estates of Sweden to which Finland belonged until 1809. The House of Nobility served as an official representation for the nobility regulated by the Finnish government, but regulation has decreased in step with the privileges. Virtually all noble families have been introduced (with the exception of some members of foreign nobility that, while having been naturalized to the royal court, have never been introduced; and some grantees of nobility who had no heirs and did not bother), and their members are listed in a calendar published regularly (usually every three years). In Finland, the nobility was generally sparser in resources than, and not as powerful as, its brethren in Sweden.

Finnish rock art pictographs created during the Stone Age have been found at 127 sites around Finland. They consist mainly of brownish-red figures and markings painted onto steep granite walls, often overlooking waterways. There are scenes featuring people, boats, elk, fish and mysterious part human figures. The survival of the art in adverse climatic conditions is due to their protection by a naturally forming thin layer of silicon dioxide on the rock surface. The Comb Ceramic Culture who lived in what is now Finland between 5000 BC and 2000 BC is credited with their production. The paints used included a mix of iron oxide, blood, and animal fat or egg, although traces of the organic materials are no longer detectable. Characteristic to the art are sacrificial parts (arrow points, bones, signs of fire, etc.) and the location on steep cliffs at water’s edge. Similar sites can be found in parts of Northern Sweden, Norway and Russia – mainly, it seems, in areas once populated by the Saami or other Finno-Ugric peoples. The first paintings to be recognised as Stone Age were reported in 1911 by Jean Sibelius, whose eye was caught by strange patterns on a lakeside cliff near Hvitträsk, the home of his friend, architect Eliel Saarinen. More paintings were discovered in the 1960s a few miles west of Hvitträsk at . At first they were thought to be recent graffiti daubed by power line workers, but they were soon ascertained to be several thousand years old. Most of the paintings lie in the Saimaa and Päijänne lake districts. By far the best-known site, at Astuvansalmi, has been proposed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Another site is Värikallio in the Hossa Hiking Area. This has unusual figures with triangular heads. The biggest painted area is in Central Finland, where the Saraakallio rock paintings includes 50–200 pictures, maybe even more.

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Finnish national anthem

Finniss (formerly Queen's Own Town) is a settlement in South Australia. It is on the Victor Harbor railway line just the Adelaide side of where it crosses the Finniss River. The town was originally surveyed with the name Queen's Own Town (after the Queens Own Regiment of Foot) in 1867 as the railway line was being extended from Goolwa to Strathalbyn. The name of the town was not changed to Finniss until 1940, although the adjacent railway station had already been named Finniss in honour of an early surveyor and the first Premier of South Australia, Colonel Boyle Travers Finniss. The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Finniss had a population of 293 people.

Finnish national library

Nationalism was a central force in the History of Finland for the last two centuries. The Finnish national awakening in the mid-19th century was the result of members of the Swedish-speaking upper classes deliberately choosing to promote Finnish culture and language as a means of nation building—i.e. to establish a feeling of unity between all people in Finland including (and not of least importance) between the ruling elite and the ruled peasantry. The publication in 1835 of the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala, a collection of traditional myths and legends which is the folklore common to the Finns and to the Karelian people (the Finnic Russian Orthodox people who inhabit the Lake Ladoga-region of eastern Finland and present-day NW Russia), stirred the nationalism that later led to Fin

Finnish rock

Finnish presidential election, 1931

Finnish mythology is a commonly applied description of the folklore of Finnish paganism, of which a modern revival is practiced by a small percentage of the Finnish people. It has many features shared with fellow Finnic Estonian mythology and other Uralic mythologies, but also shares some similarities with neighbouring Baltic, Slavic and, to a lesser extent, Norse mythologies. Finnish mythology survived within an oral tradition of mythical poem-singing and folklore well into the 19th century.

Finnish torpedo boat S3

Finnish police

Finnish motor torpedo boat Taisto 7

Finnish motor torpedo boat Häijy

Finnish opera

Finnish parliamentary election, 1908

Finnish presidential election 2012

Finnish war children

Finnish noble

Finnish reunification

Finnish municipal elections, 2012

Finnish motor torpedo boat Tyrsky

Finnish rye bread

Finnish municipal election, 1996

There were two waves of the Finnish prisoners of war in the Soviet Union during World War II: POWs during the Winter War and the Continuation War.

Finnish national road 8

Finnish speaking Swedes

Wilhelm Carpelan

Finnish motor torpedo boat Haijy

Finnish national road 1

*Gagara (Гагара) (1901-1902)

Finnish–Estonian defense cooperation

Numbers in Finnish are highly systematic, but can be irregular.

Finnish national archives

Finnish society

Louhi

Finnish national hockey team

Finnish torpedo boat S5

Finnish politics

Finnish nobility

Finnish people

Finnish parliamentary election, 1930

Finnish presidential election, 1982

Finnish war-children

Finnish national women's ice hockey team

Finnish naval equipage

The origins of Finnish opera can be traced to the late 18th or 19th century, when the first opera performances were staged in Finland. It is generally assumed that the first opera performance in Finland took place in 1768 in Turku, when the troupe of Carl Gottlieb Seuerling presented the opera Adam und Eva by Johann Theile. However other sources state that there was no orchestra at this performance. The first opera to be composed in Finland was Kung Karls jakt with music by Fredrik Pacius and a libretto by Zacharias Topelius. It was first performed in Helsinki on 24 March 1852. The first opera performance in Finnish language is supposed to be Lucia di Lammermoor presented by the Finnish National Theatre in 1873. There were 25-30 operas in the repertoire of the company. The Domestic Opera established by Aino Ackté and Edvard Fazer gave its first performance 2 October 1911. It later became the Finnish National Opera. Savonlinna Opera Festival takes place annually at the medieval Olavinlinna in the city of Savonlinna. Aino Ackté organised the first festival in Savonlinna summer 1912. After Finland gained independence in 1917, Russian-owned Alexander Theatre become property of Finland. It was given "temporarily" for the Finnish Opera, which used it for 70 years while waiting for the purpose-built opera house to be constructed. Finnish opera got international reputation in the 1970s with works by Joonas Kokkonen and Aulis Sallinen. Kokkonen's opera Last temptations (1975) was staged in Metropolitan in New York in 1983 and received over 500 performances worldwide. Famous singers include Martti Talvela, Karita Mattila and Soile Isokoski. BBC Music Magazine named Mattila as one of the top 20 sopranos of the recorded era in 2007. In the 21st century, Kaija Saariaho's works have become the most performed operas.

Finnish studies is a research area which is part of humanities and social sciences, and usually studies Finnish language, Finnish culture and Finnish history.

Finnish popular music

Finnish studies

Finnish parliamentary elections 2011

Finnish national men's ice hockey team 2006 Winter Olympics roster

Finnish parliamentary election, 1987

Finnish presidential election

Finnish submarine Vesihiisi

Finnish motorcycle Grand Prix was the Finnish round of the FIM Grand Prix motorcycle racing championship from 1962 to 1982. It was held at the Tampere Circuit in 1962 and 1963 before moving to the Imatra Circuit. Giacomo Agostini won the most Finnish Grands Prix with ten 500cc victories and seven 350cc victories. In July 2016, it was announced the Grand Prix would return from 2019 on the new Kymi Ring., but the provisional 2019 calendar did not include the track on the schedule.

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Finnish shouting choir

Finnish war child

S2 (ex-Prozorlivy and ex-Gagara in Russian service) was a Finnish Sokol class torpedo boat that had been seized from the Russians after the Finnish Civil War 1918. She sank during a fierce storm on October 4, 1925, taking with her the whole crew of 53.

Finnish s class torpedo boat

Finnish parliamentary election, 1958

Finnish parliamentary election 1933

Finnish motor torpedo boat Vihuri

Finnish presidential election, 2018

Valtatie 7, Riksväg 7

Finnish social security

Finnish parliamentary election, 1929

Finnish motor torpedo boat Isku

Finnish swearword

Finnish women

The Finnish national road 2 (Finnish:Valtatie 2, Swedish:Riksväg 2) is a main route between Vihti and Pori. The road runs from , Vihti to Pori's Mäntyluoto. The road is mainly a typical Finnish road with two driving lanes. National road 2 has a short part of motorway on its starting place and it is only 1 kilometer long and that means it is the shortest motorway in Finland and National road 2 has another bypass in Pori which is about 5 kilometers long.

Finnish wars

Finnish neopaganism

Finnish motor torpedo boat Hurja

Finnish submarine Iku-Turso

Finnish passports are issued to nationals of Finland for the purpose of international travel. Aside from serving as proof of Finnish nationality, they facilitate the process of securing assistance from Finnish consular officials abroad (or other EU consulates in case a Finnish consular official is absent). Finnish passports share the standardised layout and burgundy-red cover with other EU countries. Passports are issued by the local police or by an authorised Finnish diplomatic mission abroad.

Finnish mythos

Finnish parliamentary election, 1945

Hylje

Finnish municipal elections, 1996

Finnish national road 2

Finnish torpedo boat S4

Finnish patrol boat Roeyttae

War reparations of Finland to the Soviet Union were originally worth US$300,000,000 at 1938 prices. Finland agreed to pay the reparations in the Moscow Armistice signed on 19 September 1944. The protocol to determine more precisely the war reparations to the Soviet Union was signed in December 1944, by the prime minister Juho Kusti Paasikivi and the chairman of the Allied Control Commission for controlling the Moscow Armistice in Helsinki, Andrei Zhdanov.

Finnish motor torpedo boat Viima

Finnish prisoners of war in the Soviet Union

Finnish obsolete units of measurement

Vetehinen

Finnish neopaganist

Finnish–Thai relations

Finnish–Estonian defence cooperation began in 1930 with a secret military pact between Finland and Estonia against the threat of the Soviet Union. Open cooperation ended in 1939, as the Soviets pressured the Estonian government, but it continued secretly with information-sharing during the Winter War.

Finnishspeaking Swedes

Finnish reconquest of Ladoga Karelia (1941)

Finnish motor torpedo boat Raju

Finnish sign language

Finnish municipal election, 2012

Finnish parliamentary election, 1916

Finnish presidential election, 1968

Finnish national road 12 (Finnish: Valtatie 12; Swedish: Riksväg 12) is a highway in Finland between Rauma and Kouvola via Huittinen, Tampere and Lahti. The road is 339 kilometres (211 mi) long.

Finnish–German relations

Finnish submarine AG 12

Finnish patrol boat Rymättylä

Finnish parliamentary election, 1951

Finnish patrol boat Ruissalo

Finnish research method

Finnish patrol boat Raisio

Finnish motor torpedo boat Nuoli

Finnish records in track cycling

Finnish parliamentary election, 1922

The Finnish national road 1 (Finnish: Valtatie 1 or Ykköstie; Swedish: Riksväg 1) is the main route between the major cities of Helsinki and Turku in southern Finland. It runs from Munkkiniemi in Helsinki to the VI District of Turku, and is part of the European route E18. The road is a motorway for its whole length. The first portion of the motorway was constructed in the 1960s between central Helsinki and Kehä III, and extended to in the 1970s. In the other end of the road, the motorway stretches from eastern Turku to near Suomusjärvi. In 2005, a portion of motorway between Lohjanharju and Lohja was opened. The last part of the motorway (Lahnajärvi–Lohjanharju) was opened on January 28, 2009. This part of motorway contains five tunnels totalling 5.2 kilometres (3.2 mi). The longest tunnel (2,230 m or 7,320 ft, double-bore) is also the second longest road tunnel in Finland.

Finnish postal service

Finnish submarine vetehinen

Finnish senate

Finnish municipal election, 2004

Finnish skittles (aka Karelian skittles, outdoor skittles or kyykkä) is a centuries-old game of Karelian origin. The aim in Finnish skittles is to throw wooden skittle bats at skittles, trying to remove them from the play square using as few throws as possible. Skittles can be played with four-man teams, in pairs or as an individual game. Finnish skittles is one of the three skittles games played in the World Championships of Gorodki Sport. The other games include Classic Gorodki and Euro Gorodki.

Finnish submarine saukko

Finnish parliamentary election 1939

Finnish motor torpedo boat Tuuli

Finnish penni

Finnish parliamentary election, 1995

Finnish priests

Finnish national road 8 (Finnish: valtatie 8, Swedish: riksväg 8) runs along the western coast of Finland. The road starts at Turku, continues to Vaasa and ends in the intersection with Finnish national road 4 in Liminka, 25 km south of Oulu. It constitutes much of the length of European route E8. Cities along the road are Rauma, Pori, Kristinestad, Närpes, Vaasa, Nykarleby, Kokkola and Raahe. From Liminka, the road continues to the same direction to Oulu as road 4; road 4 to Liminka intersects it from the left.

AG-16

Finnish parliamentary election, 1966

Finnish presidential election, 1962

Finnish patrol boat Rihtniemi

Finnish parlamentary election, 2011

Finnish poetry is the poetry of the Finnish language. It has its roots in the early folk music of the area, and still has a thriving presence today. The best-known opus of Finnish poetry is the mythical epic Kalevala, compiled by Elias Lönnrot.

The Finnish National road 5 (Finnish:Valtatie 5 or Viitostie, Swedish: Riksväg 5) is a main route between Heinola and Sodankylä. The road runs from Heinola's Lusi to Sodankylä and it is 907 kilometres long. The condition of the road is less than expected from a national road, but construction to improve it is currently ongoing at several parts. National road 5 doubles as E63 between Kuopio's Vehmasmäki and Sodankylä.

Finnish school shooting (disambiguation)

Finnish war

Finnish mythology

Finnish type nephrotic syndrome

The Finnish national road 13 (Finnish: Valtatie 13, Swedish: Riksväg 13) is a highway in Finland. The highway connects the communities of Kokkola and Lappeenranta via Jyväskylä.

The Finnish submarine AG-16 was an AG-class submarine, designed by the American Holland Torpedo Boat Company/Electric Boat Company, built for the Imperial Russian Navy during World War I. The submarine was fabricated in Canada, shipped to Russia and reassembled for service with the Baltic Fleet. The boat was originally named AG-13, but was redesignated AG-16 after it sank and was repaired in 1917.

Finnish parliamentary election, 1910

Finnish parliamentary election, 1917

Finnish motor torpedo boat Haeijy

Finnish religion

Finnish shamanism

The following are the national records in track cycling in Finland maintained by the Cycling Union of Finland (Finnish: Suomen Pyöräilyunioni).

Finnish municipal elections, 2017

Finnish parliamentary election, 1975

Finnish subject

Finnish radio intelligence

Finnish parliamentary election, 1924

Finnish prime minister

Finnish type amyloidosis

Finnish skittles

Finnish national bandy team

Finnish nationality law

Finnish tribes (Finnish: Heimot) are ancient ethnic groups from which over time Finns evolved. In 1548 in his New Testament Mikael Agricola mentions that Finnish tribes are Finns, Tavastians and Karelians. The same division can also be seen in typical brooches that women wore in the 12th to 14th centuries. However, the metal culture, especially jewelry and weapons, had already evolved into distinctive and peculiar in the end of the Merovingian period in 8th century in the area of contemporary Finland. The intention of this evolution was possibly to express specifically "Finnish" identity which was born from the image of common origin and mutual similarity. Finnish tribes are frequently mentioned in historical sources, such as papal letters, Novgorod First Chronicle and Eric Chronicles.

Valtatie 13, Riksväg 13

Finnish parliament election, 2011

Wilhelm Carpelan is a former Von Fersen-class transport boat. Built in 1915 for the Imperial Russian Navy, she was used as a transport boat and later a minesweeper by the Finnish Navy until 1977. After decommissioning, she was sold to private ownership and used as a pleasure boat. In 2013, Wilhelm Carpelan was donated to the collections of Forum Marinum, the maritime museum in Turku, Finland.

Finnish patrol boat Röyttä

Finnish parlamentary election 2011

Finnish national theater

Finnish parliamentary election 2011

Finnish music

Finnish parliamentary election, 1936

Finnish tribes (Finnish: Heimot) are ancient ethnic groups from which over time Finns evolved. In 1548 in his New Testament Mikael Agricola mentions that Finnish tribes are Finns, Tavastians and Karelians. The same division can also be seen in typical brooches that women wore in the 12th to 14th centuries. However, the metal culture, especially jewelry and weapons, had already evolved into distinctive and peculiar in the end of the Merovingian period in 8th century in the area of contemporary Finland. The intention of this evolution was possibly to express specifically "Finnish" identity which was born from the image of common origin and mutual similarity.

Finnish sport

Finnish presidential election, 1988

Valtatie 1, Riksväg 1

Finnish motor torpedo boat Tuima

Finnish submarine AG 16

Finnish navy

In Finland, a person must have a surname and can have up to three given names. Surnames are inherited either patrilineally or matrilineally, while given names are usually chosen by a person's parents. Finnish names come from a variety of dissimilar traditions that were consolidated only in the early 20th century. The first national act on names came into force in 1921, and it made surnames mandatory. Between 1930 and 1985, the Western Finnish tradition whereby a married woman took her husband's surname was mandatory. Previously in Eastern Finland, this was not necessarily the case.

Valtatie 5, Riksväg 5

Valtatie 12, Riksväg 12

Finnish parliament

Valtatie 3, Riksväg 3

Finnish motor torpedo boats of World War II

Finnish national men's ice hockey team

Vesikko is a submarine (the single ship of her class), which was launched on 10 May 1933 at the Crichton-Vulcan dock in Turku. Until 1936 it was named by its manufacturing codename CV 707. Vesikko was ordered by a Dutch engineering company Ingenieurskantoor voor Scheepsbouw (a German front company) in 1930 as a commercial submarine prototype. Purchased by the Finnish before the war, she saw service in the Winter War and World War II, sinking the Soviet merchant ship Vyborg as her only victory. After the cease-fire with the Allies in 1944, Vesikko was retired. Finland was banned from operating submarines after the war and she was kept in storage until she was turned into a museum ship.

Finnish parliamentary election, 1911

Finnish tango (Finnish: suomalainen tango), or FINtango, music is an established variation of the Argentine tango but whose rhythm follows the Ballroom tango. It was one of the most popular music forms for decades in Finland. Brought to Europe in the 1910s, and to Finland itself in 1913, by travelling musicians, Finns began to take up the form and write their own tangos in the 1930s. The first Finnish tango was written by Emil Kauppi in 1914 for a film called Salainen perintömääräys (meaning The Secret Testament). It features a typical Finnish rhythm pattern with habanera. In the 1920s the tango was danced exclusively by Helsinki’s bohemians. By the 1940s about half of the entries on the popular music charts were occupied by tangos, and the post war period saw tangos spread from a popular

Finnish motor torpedo boat Vinha

Finnish order of precedence

Finnish motor torpedo boat Jyske

Finnish occupation of East Karelia (1941)

The origins of Finnish opera can be traced to the late 18th or 19th century, when the first opera performances were staged in Finland. It is generally assumed that the first opera performance in Finland took place in 1768 in Turku, when the troupe of Carl Gottlieb Seuerling presented the opera Adam und Eva by Johann Theile. However other sources state that there was no orchestra at this performance. The first opera to be composed in Finland was Kung Karls jakt with music by Fredrik Pacius and a libretto by Zacharias Topelius. It was first performed in Helsinki on 24 March 1852.

Finnish society of sciences and letters

Finnish parliamentary election, 1970

Finnish parliamentary constituencies

Finnish motor torpedo boat Syöksy

Finnish television

Finnish presidential election, 1940

Finnish occupation of East Karelia

Finnish torpedo boat S6

Finnish presidential election, 1946

Finnish writing

Finnish pollution control vessel Halli

Finnish submarine vesihiisi

Finnish–Greek relations

Finnish reconquest of the Karelian Isthmus (1941)

Finnish municipal elections, 2004

Finnish pollution control vessel Hylje

Finnish parliament election 2011

Finnish national road 3

Finnish spitz

Finnish records in Olympic weightlifting

Finnish national men's hockey team

Finnish nickel

Finnish motor torpedo boat Tarmo