Finland

Grand duchy of n. w. Ru ia, bounded on the s. by the Gulf of F., on the w. by the Gulf of Bothnia and Sweden. Area 144,000 sq. m.; pop., 1889, 2,338,404. The FINNS (q.v.) came to the country ab. 700, and were conquered and Christian i zed by Sweden 1157-1293. The Reformation was introduced 1528. In 1809, after many wars, the country was ceded to Ru ia, but is governed under its own constitution of 1772.