Old Finland

Old Finland (Finnish: Vanha Suomi; Russian: Ста́рая Финля́ндия, romanized: Staraya Finlyandiya; Swedish: Gamla Finland) is a name used for the areas that Russia gained from Sweden in the Great Northern War (1700–1721) and the Russo-Swedish War (1741–1743), and which were united as the Vyborg Governorate in 1744. During the Finnish War of 1808–1809, Russia annexed the rest of the present-day Finland, and formed the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland ("New Finland") out of those areas. Old Finland was joined to the Grand Duchy in 1812 as Viipuri Province.

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