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Karelia is the land of the Karelian and Finnish peoples and is a vast
inhabited area in Northern Europe of historical significance for Finland,
Russia, and Sweden. It is currently divided between the Russian Republic of
Karelia, the Russian Leningrad Oblast, and two Regions of Finland, South
Karelia and North Karelia.
In the Karelian, Finnish, and Estonian languages, Karelia is called
Karjala; in Russian ???????; and in Swedish Karelen.
History Karelia was bitterly fought over by Sweden and the Novgorod
Republic during the 13th-century Swedish-Novgorodian Wars. The Treaty of
Nöteborg (Finnish: Pähkinäsaaren rauha) in 1323 divided Karelia between the
two. Viborg (Finnish: Viipuri) became the capital of the new Swedish
province.
The Treaty of Nystad (Finnish: Uudenkaupungin rauha) in 1721 between
Imperial Russia and Sweden ceded most of Karelia to Russi
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