Church in Sweden

Lapland

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January 28th 2017
Karesuando is in Finland and Sweden, straddling the river that is the modern border. The Russians put the border there after the last war, previously they kept losing the border in the snow. We are 160 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle in January, everything is snow covered. The trees sparkle with frozen snow; the roads are sheets of compacted snow that require studded tyres; that river is ... read more

Europe » Finland » Lapland

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Finland was a province and then a grand duchy under Sweden from the 12th to the 19th centuries and an autonomous grand duchy of Russia after 1809. It won its complete independence in 1917. During World War II, it was able to successfully defend its f... ... read more