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Finnish War
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1808–1809 war between Russia and Sweden
Key facts
- Date
- Date 21 February 1808 – 17 September 1809, (1 year, 6 months, 3 weeks and 6 days)
- Location
- Finland and Sweden
- Result
- Russian victory
- Territorial changes
- Treaty of Fredrikshamn (Sweden loses Finland , Åland , a part of Lapland and a part of West Bothnia , from which the Grand Duchy of Finland was constituted, an autonomous part of the Russian Empire .)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- war
- Part of
- Napoleonic Wars
- Location
- Finland
- Image
- Рисунок к статье «Кваркен». Военная энциклопедия Сытина (Санкт-Петербург, 1911-1915).jpg
- Significant event
- Battle of Karstula
- Participant
- Sweden
Show 5 more facts
- start time
- 1808-02-21
- end time
- 1809-09-17
- Commons category
- Finnish War
- topic's main category
- Category:Finnish War
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
Belligerents
Russia
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Finnish War” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.