Chapter 461: Santa's Hometown?
This is the way to enjoy it for a woman who loves to drink coffee......
Gentle, long-lasting, continuous...... It is like the water of the Yangtze River flowing endlessly...... Ye Chao brought her happiness in his own way......
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The trip to Iceland ended in the gentle hometown of the "Two Beauties of Ice and Fire".
It's a dewy relationship, there is no togetherness, no responsibility, and not even ...... Love......
Ye Chao and Tang Hong and Tang Yan separated, everyone went their separate ways, he crossed the Norwegian Sea by boat, passed through the North Sea, and finally landed in Finland from the Baltic Sea......
Finland is said to be the home of Santa Claus.
The first inhabitants were the Lapps, so Finland is also known as Lapland, and after the Finns moved in, they established the Grand Duchy of Finland.
Some people think that Santa's home is in Ear Mountain, in Finland.
In 1927, a Finnish radio program announced that Santa Claus lived with 20,000 reindeer on the "Ear Mountain" in the province of Lapland, which divides Finland and the Soviet Union, and that it was because of the "ears" that Santa Claus could hear all the children of the world in the North Pole.
Since then, the "Ear Mountain" in the story has become the hometown of Santa Claus.
Every year on Christmas Eve, the children hang their stockings by the fireplace before going to bed and fall asleep with eager anticipation, and Santa Claus distributes Christmas gifts from the fireplace chimney to the children's stockings in a reindeer-pulled sleigh at night.
It is worth mentioning that many countries around the world claim or are considered to be the home of Santa Claus, including Alaska in the United States, Canada, Norway and Greenland.
Finland is a highly developed capitalist country and a highly industrialized, liberalized market economy, which was ruled by Sweden in the second half of the 12th century.
After the Russo-Swedish War in 1809, it was incorporated into the Russian Empire and became the Grand Duchy. In December 1917, the Republic of Finland declared its independence and became a permanently neutral state.
Finland is a member of the European Union, but its output per capita is well above the EU average and comparable to its neighbour Sweden.
The people enjoy a very high standard of life, and the Finnish government civil servants are clean and efficient, and there is a broad consensus in society.
In the 2012 Global Corruption Perceptions Index, a non-governmental organization that monitors corruption in countries around the world, Finland ranked first among 176 countries and regions, making it the least corrupt country.
This country is located in the north of Europe, one of the five Nordic countries, bordering Sweden, Norway and Russia, the Gulf of Finland to the south and the Gulf of Bothnia to the west.
The coastline is 1,100 kilometers long, the inland water area accounts for 10% of the country's area, there are about 179,000 islands, about 188,000 lakes, and it is known as the "country of a thousand lakes".
Finland has long and cold winters, mild and short summers, and one-third of the country is within the Arctic Circle.
The name "Finland" comes from a province in southwestern Finland that has been called Finland since the 18th century. "?sterland" is the name of this land in the eastern part of Sweden. It was only around the 15th century that Finland began to become synonymous with "?sterland".
The history of Finland began more than 10,000 years ago with the settlement of what is now Finland, and this primitive commune system lasted in Finland until the 12th century.
Swedish Regent Biller? Jarl occupied Finland in 1249 through the Second Swedish Crusader. The crusade was launched in response to the Tavastian people's refusal to continue converting to Christianity. Novgorod took control of Karelia, where the dialect of Eastern Finnish was spoken.
Sweden, for its part, took control of Western Karelia in 1293 with the Third Swedish Crusade. Western Karelia has since been relegated to the Western cultural sphere, while Eastern Karelia has gradually turned culturally towards Russia and Orthodoxy.
Although the East Karelians still maintain strong ties with the Finns linguistically and by blood, they are generally treated as a separate people. The boundaries of the Catholic and Orthodox worlds were also set on the eastern boundary of Finland with the Treaty of Nöteborg in 1323.
Finland was integrated into the medieval culture in the 13th century. The Dominicans were introduced to Finland in 1249 and had a significant impact. As early as the beginning of the 14th century, the first Finnish Sorbonne students have been documented.
In the Finnish part of Zealand, the urban settlement of Turku is developing. Turku was once the largest town in the Kingdom of Sweden and was inhabited by German merchants and craftsmen. Although Finland was very unurbanized in the Middle Ages.
Southern Finland and the Gulf of Bothnia coast have only a few parishes and territories that depend on agriculture for their livelihood. Other parts of Finland are inhabited by the Sámi who make their living by fishing, hunting and small-scale farming. In the 12th and 13th centuries, large numbers of Swedes immigrated to the south and northwest coasts of Finland.
In the Åland Islands and in the archipelago between the Åland Islands and Turku, the Swedish language was even more widespread than it is today. Swedish also became the language spoken by the upper classes in other parts of Finland.
Turku established an episcopal diocese in the 13th century. Turku Cathedral is the center of worship of St. Henry, as well as the cultural center of the area. Bishops at that time had greater religious authority than they do today, and were often the most powerful people in the region. Bishops are usually Finns, but the commanders in the castle are usually Swedish or German nobles.
In 1362, representatives of Finland were invited to participate in the election of the Swedish king. This event is often seen as a sign of Finland's integration into the Kingdom of Sweden. As part of the kingdom of Scandinavia, the elite and yeoman farmers who could afford one-man equipment formed a class of gentry and nobility, concentrated in southern Finland.
The fortress in Vyborg defended the eastern borders of Finland. Sweden and Novgorod signed the Treaty of Nöteborg in 1323, but this treaty was not observed for a long time. In 1348, King Magnus IV of Sweden launched a crusade against the Orthodox heresy, only to lose his support and lose his throne, which also ended in failure.
Sweden and Novgorod had a dispute over control of the northern shore of the Gulf of Bothnia and the wilderness inhabited by the Savo people of the East of Finland. Novgorod saw it as a base for fishing and hunting, and was unhappy with the slow infiltration of Catholic immigrants from the west.
Sweden and Novgorod had some intermittent conflicts with each other in the 14th and 15th centuries, but remained in a precarious state of peace for most of the time. The same is true of existing internal tensions.
In 1380, the Scandinavian part of Sweden was also affected by the civil war that spread to Finland.
In 1389, Margrethe I, the victor of the civil war, brought all the three kingdoms of Sweden, Denmark and Norway under her rule, known as the Kalmar Union. For the next 130 years, various factions in Sweden tried to break this alliance.
Finland was also involved in the dispute, but the 15th century seems to have been a period of relative affluence, with a growing population and economic development. By the end of the 15th century, tensions were rising on the eastern frontier.
The Grand Duchy of Moscow occupied Novgorod and took a step towards united Russia. Between 1495 and 1497, when Sweden and Russia went to war, the fortress of Vyborg was besieged by Russia, and according to legend of the time, the city was saved by a miracle.
After the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, Sweden became one of the most powerful countries in Europe. Between 1637 and 1640 and from 1648 to 1654, the Viceroy of Finland, Count Per Brahe, introduced important reforms and built many cities. The measures are often considered to be beneficial to Finland's development.
For example, in 1640, the first university in Finland? The BO Academy was founded in Turku. The complete Bible in Finnish was also published in 1642.
But heavy taxes and ongoing wars and a cold climate (the Xiaoice period) made it a bleak time for Finnish farmers during this period. During the Second Northern War, between 1655 and 1660, Finnish soldiers were sent to fight in Livonia, Poland and Denmark. Sweden's political system is also becoming more and more autonocratic.
From 1638 to 1655, the Kingdom of Sweden also held the territory of Delaware and Pennsylvania in present-day America as colonies.
At least half of these immigrants are of Finnish origin.
Finland is known as the "Land of a Thousand Lakes" with abundant water resources, with 10% of the country's inland water area, about 179,000 islands and about 188,000 lakes.