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Soldiers of the Polish Legion in Finland. Polish Legion in Finland (Polish: Legion Polski w Finlandii, Finnish: Puolan Legioona Suomessa, Swedish: Polska legionen i Finland, Russian: Польский Легион в Финляндии) was a military unit made up of ethnic Poles who had been soldiers of the Russian Imperial Army during World War I and stationed in the Grand Duchy of Finland.
In 1917, the Polish Legion in Finland was formed to fight for Finnish independence and then stationed in Viipuri, and after the Finnish victory some 2,500 Polish soldiers were evacuated to Poland. [25] Some 200 Poles lived in Finland in the 1920s. Finland has never been a major destination for Polish immigrants, and only around 5,400 Poles live ...
Poland and Finland were once united by a personal union under the Polish–Swedish union during the reign of King Sigismund III Vasa. In 1917, the Polish Legion in Finland was formed to fight for Finnish independence and then stationed in Viipuri. [1]
Polish Legion 1,737 [4] Red Guards 80,000–90,000 (2,600 women) ... A map of Russia's Grand Duchy of Finland from 1825. The map texts are in Russian and Swedish.
In June 1917, Viipuri hosted a convention of ethnic Polish military men stationed throughout Finland, at which it was decided to form the Polish Legion in Finland to fight for Finnish independence from Russia (see also Finland–Poland relations). [32] The 1,700-strong Legion was then stationed in Viipuri. [32]
Polish Legion in Finland This page was last edited on 1 October 2020, at 13:37 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Danube Legion; Legion of the Vistula; Polish Legion in Portugal, created in 1828 during Liberal Wars; Polish Legion in Hungary, created in 1848 during Hungarian Revolution of 1848; Mickiewicz's Legion, formed by Adam Mickiewicz in Rome in 1848; Polish Legion in Turkey, formed under Józef Jagmin in the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)
Polish Legion in Finland; R. Reserve Officer School (Finland) S. Sissi (Finnish light infantry) This page was last edited on 29 December 2021, at 14:33 (UTC). ...