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Resources : Finland
This is a page listing various resources dealing with Finnish history, geography and related topics and subjects. Resources range from website and online article links to lists of recommended non-fiction bibliography.
General Info and Q&A Threads
Archives and Documents, Period Media
The National Archives Service of Finland
Diplomatarium Fennicum - “Database of medieval Finnish documents. Diplomatarium Fennicum is a webservice of Finnish medieval documentary sources, developed and hosted by the National Archives of Finland. It contains material from the 9th century to 1530 and, at the moment, the text corpus encompasses approximately 6850 documents. The service is developed in co-operation with humanities scholars. Funded by the Kone Foundation.”
1910s Finnish news archives - Digitized Finnish newspapers from the 1910s, courtesy of the Finnish National Library. Includes Finnish-language and Swedish-language periodicals of the time.
Baltic Connections Project - Uncovering the common past of the countries around the Baltic Sea (1450-1800).
Maps and Cartography
Historical Maps of Finnish and Finno-Ugric People (1935) - Maps showing the history of the Finnish-related people of Russia. Includes maps of city locations, name changes, and much commentary.
Baltic Connections Project - Uncovering the common past of the countries around the Baltic Sea (1450-1800).
Architecture, Fine Arts and Culture
Muuka.com - Finnish historical landmarks and architecture. Currently covers 7 castles, 10 fortresses, 195 church buildings, 223 manor houses and 27 water towers.
Database of Nordic names - Names, old and new, in Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Faroese, Icelandic, Sami and Greenlandic languages, Old Norse and names from northern European mythologies.
Economy, Research and Transport
Military topics
SA-kuva.fi - Online Finnish Defence Forces WWII photo archive. Opened by the contemporary FDF in April 2013, available in Finnish, Swedish and English. You can thank DrakonFin for alerting us.