Abstract
Finland’s first inhabitants moved northwards at the end of the Ice Age. Further waves of settlement came in 4000 BC and 1000 BC and social groups began to develop. During the Viking era Finland’s location on the trade route between Russia and Sweden brought prosperity and conflict in equal measure, with attacks made on Finnish trading posts by the Swedes and the Danes.
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(2020). Finland. In: The Statesman’s Yearbook 2020. The Statesman's Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95940-2_73
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