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The Finnish Tatar community, about 800 people, is recognized as a national minority by the government of Finland, which considers their language as a non-territorial language under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ECRML) is a European treaty (CETS 148) adopted in 1992 under the auspices of the Council of Europe to protect and promote historical regional and minority languages in Europe. ...
Their main organizations are the Finnish Islamic Congregation (Finlandiya Islam Cemaati, founded in 1925), the Tatar Cultural Society (Finlandiya Türkleri Birligi, founded in 1935) and the Yolduz sports club (founded in 1945). They even had a Tatar primary school (Türk Halk Mektebi) in Helsinki from 1948 to 1969. 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...
1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Province Southern Finland Region Uusimaa Sub-region Helsinki City manager Jussi Pajunen Official languages Finnish, Swedish Area - total - land ranked 342nd 185. ...
1948 (MCMXLVIII) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...
1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday For other uses, see Number 1969. ...
Their ancestors came to Finland from the 1870s to the mid 1920s from a group of some 20 villages in the Sergatch region on the Volga River, to the southeast of Nizhni Novgorod. Those living in the city of Viipuri in Karelia resettled in Finland when Karelia was ceded by Finland to the Soviet Union in 1944. The Volga river in Western Russia, Europes longest river, with a length of 3,690 km (2,293 miles), provides the core of the largest river system in Europe. ...
Area - Total 260,000 mi² Population - City (2003) - Metropolitan 1,334,249 2 million approx. ...
Not to be confused with the Danish town and county of Viborg in Jutland Viapori, a Finnish transcription of Sveaborg, better known as Suomenlinna castle Vyborg from the tower of the castle Vyborg (transcription of Russian Выборг) is a town with 70,000 inhabitants at Russias border to Finland...
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1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Source
Frank Horn and Heli Niemi, National Minorities of Finland, The Tatars, Virtual Finland (Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland), June 2004
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