Talk:Åbo and Björneborg County

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[edit] Swedish names of FINNISH counties?

Doesnt it strike anyone else as ODD that the counties/municipalities/provinces of FINLAND are in SWEDIH on Wikipedia?

No, at least not for me. Besides, the whole province was largely bilingual, particularly in the archipelago south to Åbo. As a historic province of Sweden (and of course, more recently of Finland) there's a good reason to bear the Swedish names for the old Swedish towns. I'll add the nowadays more common Finnish names in parentheses.

Later, the province was officially called Province of Turku and Pori in English, at least during its last years. Ultrix 09:10, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

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