Old Finland
Territory that Russia gained from Sweden in the Great Northern and Russo-Swedish wars / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with Finland Proper, a historical province in the southwest of Finland.
Old Finland (Finnish: Vanha Suomi; Russian: Ста́рая Финля́ндия, romanized: Staraya Finlyandiya; Swedish: Gamla Finland) is a name used for the areas that Russia gained from Sweden in the Great Northern War (1700–1721) and in the Russo-Swedish War (1741–1743). Old Finland was joined to the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland as Viipuri Province in 1812.
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