1717 map of Scandinavia and the Baltic region

1717 map of Scandinavia and the Baltic region - by George Willdey

1878 ethnographic map of European Russia - by Aleksandr Fyodorovich Rittikh

5717 x 8588

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‘I recognize Volga Germans, Bessarabia Germans and Crimean Germans

Germans were a significant minority in almost all parts of Eastern Europe’

Finnish dialects and minority languages in Finland, 1935

4278 x 6744

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‘I didn’t expect Finland to have so many dialects’

1834 map of Russia and Poland - by John Arrowsmith

8104 x 9762

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‘Interesting seeing Nowy Targ as Neumarkt

Also worth noting that Poland wasn’t entirely under Tsarist rule, but also Habsburg and German states’

Map of Finland (1662) / Anders Bureus

4400 x 3718

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Forestry and Productive Forest Land in Finland (1969)

706 X 901

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1730 map of Finland - by Matthäus Seutter

9236 × 7978

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River basins of Finland

1510 × 2133

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‘I love the shape of Finland … I too, enjoy testicles.

Wait…’

Map of Scandinavia (1555)

1200 × 1866

River basins of Scandinavia and the Baltic states

2035 × 2614

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‘Out of Nordics, Sweden has the largest lake (Vänern; 5545km²) and Finland the second-largest (Saimaa, 4400km²). These are the largest and second-largest lakes in Europe (excluding Russia’s Ladoga; 18130km² and Onega 9700km²). Finland used to have half Ladoga before WW2. The Caspian Sea (371000km²) is in Asia and is the largest lake in the world … This guy lakes’

The Dogs of Scandinavia (1892)

1481 x 2386

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‘The reason Norway is muffled by the Swedish dog there is that Norway was under a Union with sweden at that time and had no say in foreign matters’–Tronderbart