The+history+of+Finland

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After last ice age, people came to Finland about 11 000 years ago. In middle age Sweden added most of finnic tribes to them. In eastern Finland Novgorod’s impact was notable. In late middle age Finland was part of Calmar Union, but in 1523 Gustav Wasa removed Finland and Sweden to be kingdom of Sweden. In 1809 most of Finland ceded to the Russian Empire, and Finland became autonomous The Grand Duchy of Finland. During World War I, in 1917 Finland became an independence republic. In 1918 Finland had civil war and the whites so Goverment supporters won. Russia attacked Finland in 1939-1940 (Winter War) and a war between 1941 and 1944 was called as Continuation War. During those wars Finland lost big areas mostly in Karelia. In 1952 Finland hosted the Olympic Games in Helsinki. In 1995 Finland joined European Union and in 2002 Euro replaced Mark as the official currency of Finland.

Why do we have two official languages?
===- Because Finland was under Sweden's reign, and there are Swedish people in some part of Finland that only speak __S__wedish.===

Area controlled by Finland at it's largestNow it's like this. Urho Kekkonen, the president of Finland 1956-1982

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