Grand Duchy o Finland
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Grand Duchy o Finland | |||||||||
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| 1809–1917 | |||||||||
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.svg) The Grand Duchy o Finland in 1914. | |||||||||
| Status | Autonomous state o the Roushie Empire | ||||||||
| Caipital | Turku (1809–1812) Helsinki (1812–1917) | ||||||||
| Common leids | Swadish, Finnish, Roushie | ||||||||
| Releegion | Finnish Orthodox, Evangelical Lutheran | ||||||||
| Govrenment | Monarchy | ||||||||
| Grand Duke | |||||||||
• 1809–1825 | Alexander I | ||||||||
• 1825–1855 | Nicholas I | ||||||||
• 1855–1881 | Alexander II | ||||||||
• 1881–1894 | Alexander III | ||||||||
• 1894–1917 | Nicholas II | ||||||||
| Govrenor-General | |||||||||
• 1809 | Georg Sprengtporten (first) | ||||||||
• 1917 | Nikolai Nekrasov (last) | ||||||||
| Vice Chairman | |||||||||
• 1822–1826 | Carl Erik Mannerheim (first) | ||||||||
• 1917 | Anders Wirenius (last) | ||||||||
| Legislatur | Pairlament | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
| 29 Mairch 1809 | |||||||||
| 17 September 1809 | |||||||||
| 6 December 1917 | |||||||||
| Aurie | |||||||||
| 1910 | 360,000 km2 (140,000 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1910 | 2943000 | ||||||||
| Currency | Swadish riksdaler (1809–1840) Roushie ruble (1840–1865) Finnish markka (1865–1917) | ||||||||
| ISO 3166 code | FI | ||||||||
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| The day pairt o |  Finland Roushie | ||||||||
The Grand Duchy o Finland (Finnish: Suomen suuriruhtinaskunta, Swadish: Storfurstendömet Finland, Laitin: Magnus Ducatus Finlandiæ, Roushie: Великое княжество Финляндское, Velikoye knyazhestvo Finlyandskoye; for the Scots translation; see an aa Grand Duke an Grand Prince) wis the predecessor state o modren Finland.