TaavettiFortress (Finnish: Taavetin linnoitus), is a fortress located in Taavetti in the municipality of Luumäki in Finland. TaavettiFortress was built...
distance from Taavetti to the nearest city, Lappeenranta, is about 40 kilometres (25 mi). Taavetti has evolved around the TaavettiFortress (Taavetin linnoitus)...
[ˈviaˌpori]), or Sveaborg (Swedish: [ˈsvɛːɑˈborj]), is an inhabited sea fortress composed of eight islands, of which six have been fortified; it is about...
Russian fortress. It was the only major action of the war to take place at Bomarsund in the Baltic Sea. Bomarsund was a 19th-century fortress, the construction...
lakes Haukivesi and Pihlajavesi. It is the northernmost medieval stone fortress still standing. The castle forms a spectacular stage for the Savonlinna...
Bunkermuzeum History of the Mannerheim Line Mannerheim Line at the Northern Fortress University of Helsinki Mannerheim Line Archeology project with wartime...
Выборгский замок; Finnish: Viipurin linna; Swedish: Viborgs slott) is a fortress in Vyborg, Russia. It was built by the Swedes during the Middle Ages around...
The Swedish conquerors of Finland intended it originally as a military fortress. During the next two centuries its defences were strengthened and living...
Fortification 1918—1944), Otava, 1981, ISBN 951-1-06263-8[page needed] Northern Fortress: Existence of [the] Salpa Line was a matter during the Soviet-Finnish peace...
structures of the castle were replaced with stone structures to form a fortress. During the Great Northern War (also known as the "Greater Wrath"), Russian...
"thisisFINLAND" website of the Finland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Raseborg at Northern Fortress The Association of Castles and Museums around the Baltic Sea...
and Turku, Kastelholm is one of only five surviving Finnish medieval fortresses that are also considered to be architecturally substantial. Built in the...
The Svartholm fortress (Finnish: Svartholman merilinnoitus; Swedish: Svartholms fästning) was built between 1749 and 1764 outside Loviisa in Southern Finland...
1746-1747 provides for four fortifications: Loviisa Fortress, Svartholm Fortress, a main fortress in Helsinki and Viapori. The Diet approves this defense...
Lappeenranta Fortress (Finnish: Lappeenrannan linnoitus) is a fortress located in Lappeenranta, Finland. In 1649, after a visit to Vipuri, the Governor-General...
Hanko Fortress (Hangöbefästningarna in Swedish) was a fortress built in Hanko at the end of the 18th century, which consisted of the Gustavsvärn, Meijerfeldt...
constructed around Helsinki during the First World War. The purpose of the fortress was to provide a secure naval base for the Russian Baltic fleet and to...
Kyminlinna (literally, 'the castle of Kymi') is a fortress located in the northern part of island of Hovinsaari in Kotka, on the south coast of Finland...
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