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  2. Military of the Grand Duchy of Finland - Wikipedia

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    Between 1809 and 1917, Finland was an autonomous part of the Russian Empire as the Grand Duchy of Finland. Between 1881 and 1901, the grand duchy had its own army. Before that, several other military units had also been formed. The Grand Duchy inherited its allotment system (Finnish: ruotujakolaitos, Swedish: indelningsverket) from the Swedish ...

  3. Russification of Finland - Wikipedia

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    the Military of the Grand Duchy of Finland was made subject to Russian rules of military service. The Language Manifesto of 1900, a decree by Nicholas II which made Russian the language of administration of Finland (in 1900, there were an estimated 8,000 Russians in all of Finland, of a population of 2,700,000)—the Finns saw this as placing ...

  4. Grand Duchy of Finland - Wikipedia

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    The Grand Duchy of Finland, officially and also translated as the Grand Principality of Finland, [a] was the predecessor state of modern Finland. It existed from 1809 to 1917 as an autonomous state within the Russian Empire .

  5. Military history of Finland - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Valkeala in 1790 took place in Valkeala, Finland, between Sweden and the Russian Empire.At the time, Finland was a component of the Swedish Realm. During the several following centuries, a gradual and slow process of Swedish expansion in today's Finland and the consolidation of Sweden took place, not through wars fought between the Finns and the Swedes, but rather by various ...

  6. Finnish Guards' Rifle Battalion - Wikipedia

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    The military of the Grand Duchy of Finland was established by an imperial order on 18 September 1812 by Alexander I of Russia, which became the anniversary of the battalion. As per the imperial order, Finland had to form three rifle units, consisting each of two battalions of 600 men, totaling 3600 men.

  7. 22nd Army Corps (Russian Empire) - Wikipedia

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    The 22nd Army Corps, (Russian: 22-й армейский корпус, romanized: 22-y Armeyskiy Korpus) was a tactical formation of the Imperial Russian Army based in the Grand Duchy of Finland before the beginning of the First World War. After seeing much service during the war, the corps was disbanded following the October Revolution.

  8. Finland - Wikipedia

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    On 29 March 1809, after being conquered by the armies of Alexander I of Russia, Finland became an autonomous grand duchy within the Russian Empire, as recognised by the Diet of Porvoo. [58] This situation continued until the end of 1917. [56] In 1812, Alexander I incorporated the Russian province of Vyborg into the Grand

  9. Military districts of the Russian Empire - Wikipedia

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    Finland Military District (Финля́ндский вое́нный о́круг) – included all eight Provinces of the Grand Duchy of Finland (1864-1905). It was merged into the Petersburg Military District in 1905. Kharkov Military District (1864–1888) Riga Military District (1864–1870) Orenburg Military District (1865–1881)