TURKU

toorˈkoo, Swed. Åbo, city (1998 pop. 170,931), capital of Western Finland prov., SW Finland, at the mouth of the Aurajoki River on the Baltic Sea. The center of the fertile agricultural region of SW Finland, it is also the country's largest winter port and an important industrial city. Its manufactures include shipbuilding, machinery, food, and textiles; tourism is also important. Known as the "cradle of Finnish culture," Turku is among Finland's oldest cities. Swedish Crusaders landed on the site in 1157. It was the seat (1220) of the first bishop of Finland, and the capital of Finland until 1812. The national university was in Turku from 1640 to 1827, when a fire destroyed almost the entire city and the university was moved (1828) to Helsinki. The Treaty of Åbo, by which Sweden ceded part of SE Finland to Russia, was signed in the city in 1743. The great cathedral was begun in the early 13th cent. The 13th-century castle, burned in 1614 and restored in 1961, is now a historic museum. Turku has a Finnish university (founded 1917) and a Swedish university (founded 1918).

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books on: Turku  - 637 results

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Media Firms: Structures, Operations, and Performance
Book by Robert G. Picard; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002
...Performance Edited by Robert G. Picard Turku School of Economics and Business Administration...Media Economics Conference (5 th : 2002: Turku, Finland) Media firms: structures, operations...Chapter 1 The Centrality of Media Firms Turku School of Economics and Business Administration...
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Consciousness in Philosophy and Cognitive Neuroscience
Book by Antti Revonsuo, Matti Kamppinen; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1994
Subjects: Cognitive Neuroscience--Congresses, Consciousness--Congresses, Philosophy Of Mind--Congresses
...NEUROSCIENCE Edited by Antti Revonsuo University of Turku Matti Kamppinen University of Turku LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOCIATES, PUBLISHERS...Symposium of Consciousness held at the University of Turku. . . 1992"--Pref. Includes bibliographical references...
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Headache and Migraine in Childhood and Adolescence
Book by Vincenzo Guidetti, George Russell, Matti Sillanpää, Paul Winner; Martin Dunitz, 2002
Subjects: Headache In Adolescence, Headache In Adolescence--Treatment, Headache In Children, Headache In Children--Treatment, Migraine In Children, Migraine In Children--Treatment
...Head Department of Child Neurology University of Turku Hospital TYKS Turku Finland Paul Winner MD Clinical Associate Professor...MD PhD Department of Pediatrics University of Turku Central Hospital TYKS 20520 Turku Finland...
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Schizophrenia: Its Origins and Need-Adapted Treatment
Book by Yrjö O. Alanen, Sirkka-Liisa Leinonen; Karnac Books, 1997
Subjects: Schizophrenia
...139 The Turku Schizophrenia Project 140...by myself and my colleagues working in Turku, Finland, and which has stimulated a great...this book to my co-workers, both at the Turku clinic and elsewhere. The Turku Schizophrenia...
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A History of Finland's Literature
Book by George C. Schoolfield; University of Nebraska Press, 1998
Subjects: Finnish Literature--History And Criticism
...46 Turku Romanticism and Nationalism / 50...the Abo Academy, of the University of Turku, and of the University of Helsinki. The...Porthan 1739- 1804 , by his heirs in the "Turku romanticism" of the teens and twenties...
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journal articles on: Turku  - 194 results

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'It's War and Everyone Can Do as They Please!' an Environmental History of a Finnish City in Wartime
Journal article by Rauno Lahtinen, Timo Vuorisalo; Environmental History, Vol. 9, 2004
Subjects: Agriculture, Environmental impact, Land use, Landfill, Pollution, Turku Finland, Urban areas, World War I, World War II
...the war periods? We focus on the city of Turku. We conclude that the Second World War...intentionally by enemy bombing was substantial in Turku and in many other Finnish cities, we are...After a brief overview of the history of Turku, this article explores three different...
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Long-Term Development of Learning Activity: Motivational, Cognitive, and Social Interaction
Journal article by Erno Lehtinen; Educational Psychologist, Vol. 30, 1995
Subjects: Learning, Psychology Of
...and Riitta Kinnunen University of Turku, Finland Recent research on school...sent to Erno Lehtinen, University of Turku, Institute of Education, Lemminkaisenkatu...Universitatis Turkuensis , Tom. B, No. 171. Turku, Finland: University of Turku. Levine...
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Comprehension Monitoring in Beginning Readers
Journal article by Riitta Kinnunen, Marja Vauras, Pekka Niemi; Scientific Studies of Reading, Vol. 2, 1998
Subjects: Reading
...Riitta Kinnunen and Marja Vauras University of Turku, Finland Pekka Niemi Abo Akadenzi University...Kinnunen, Centre for Learning Research, University of Turku, FIN-20014 Turku, Finland. E-mail: riitta.kinnunen@utu.fi shifts it...
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John Walker Lindh and Yaser Esam Hamdi: Closing the Loophole in International Humanitarian Law for American Nationals Captured Abroad While Fighting with Enemy Forces.
Journal article by Melysa H. Sperber; American Criminal Law Review, Vol. 40, 2003
Subjects: Foreign enlistment--Laws, regulations, etc., Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, 1949, Hamdi, Yaser Esam--Cases, Lindh, John Walker--Cases, Prisoners of war--Laws, regulations, etc., Treason--Laws, regulations, etc., War (International law)--Laws, regulations, etc.
...armed conflicts and participants. (223) The Turku Declaration, issued in 1990, represented...any circumstances." (224) Notably, the Turku Declaration contains a prohibition on adverse...to nationals of a Detaining Power. The Turku Declaration creates a non-derogable set...
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Measuring and Engineering Personnel Productivity in the Graphic Arts Industry
Journal article by Antti Paasio, Robert G. Picard, Timo Einari Toivonen; Journal of Media Economics, Vol. 7, 1994
Subjects: Mass Media Policy--United States, Mass Media--Economic Aspects--United States
...Timo Einari Toivonen Business Research Center Turku School of Economics This article considers means...sent to Antti Paasio, Business Research Center, Turku School of Economics, SF-20500 Turku, Finland. involve the scope and size, productivity...
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Divine Light: This Chapel in Turku Draws on a Long Tradition of Remarkable Finnish Churches in Which Religion, Nature and Light Come Together
Magazine article by Julia Dawson; The Architectural Review, Vol. 218, October 2005
Subjects: Church architecture--Criticism and interpretation, Church buildings--Design and construction, Churches--Design and construction
Divine Light: This Chapel in Turku Draws on a Long Tradition of Remarkable Finnish Churches in Which Religion, Nature and Light Come Together. by Julia Dawson...
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Journey into Winter: Naantali Spa Hotel
Magazine article by Judith Bell Turner-Yamamoto; World and I, Vol. 22, January 2007
Subjects: Hotels and motels--Hotel reviews, Turku, Finland
...eighteenth century, this small town near Turku, the old Swedish capital of Finland, was...On the hour and a half train ride to Turku, the city nearby the village of Naantali...to Sweden. After a 20-minute taxi from Turku train station, the Naantali Spa Hotel appeared...
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Preparing the Wolfpacks: the Type Ii U-boat
Magazine article by Jim Bloom; Sea Classics, Vol. 41, October 2008
...by Jim Bloom In 1933, the Crichton-Vulcan shipyard in Turku, Finland, built a small 250-ton submarine that was eventually...1937. The boat was constructed at the Crichton-Vulcan yard in Turku (laid down 1 August 1931, launched 1 May 1933) and was known...
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A Nation Born Old : Finland's Long Road to Self-Determination
Magazine article by Stephen J. Osmond; World and I, Vol. 14, July 1999
Subjects: Finland--History, Kalevala (Poem)--Political aspects
...in the dialect of Finlands oldest city, Turku. Although Finnish had been a literary...West and East. The route stretches from Turku in the west to Lappeenranta in the east...and freeways. More than 750 years old, Turku is at the center of Finnish history. The...
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The Nokia Generation Hangs Up
Magazine article by Timo Harakka; Foreign Policy, July 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Kahden ja yhden yon tarinoita (Tales of a Two and One Nights) (Book)--Book reviews, Sinun lapsesi eivat ole sinun (Your Children Are Not Yours) (Book)
...Up. by Timo Harakka Kahden ja yhden yon tarinoita (Tales of a Two and One Nights) By Riku Korhonen 261 pages, Turku: Sammakko, 2003 (in Finnish) Sinun lapsesi eivat ole sinun (Your Children Are Not Yours) By Laura Honkasalo 320 pages, Helsinki...
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newspaper articles on: Turku  - 126 results

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Turku Prove a Real Tasty Proposition for Mixu; FOOTBALL EXTRA
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 24, 2006
Turku Prove a Real Tasty Proposition for Mixu; FOOTBALL EXTRA. MIXU PAATELAINEN will today be unveiled as the new manager of ambitious Finnish Premier League side TPS Turku. The former Hibs, Dundee United and Aberdeen striker resigned from his post at Cowdenbeath on Saturday, just five months...
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Necklace of Marinas Offers Opportunities
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), September 27, 2006
Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Jewelry
...visiting professor of entrepreneurship at the Turku School of Economics. This years trip is...week. Having been a regular visitor to Turku since 1994, I continue to be impressed...biotechnology and information technology, Turku also has an industrially relevant heritage...
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Just Strolling around This Site Would Make Any Welsh Policymaker Weep
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), September 21, 2005
...working with colleagues in the city of Turku on a project to compare entrepreneurial...shipbuilding area (despite cutbacks, the Turku Shipyard has recently built the worlds...developing knowledge-based economies is the Turku Science Park, which contains three universities...
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Royal Caribbean Gets Biggest Cruise Ship
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, October 30, 2009
Subjects: Cruise lines, Cruise ships, Shipbuilding industry
...Caribbean Gets Biggest Cruise Ship. TURKU, Finland, Oct. 30 (AFP) ndash; The worlds...Caribbean cruiseline in the Finnish port of Turku by shipbuilder STX on Wednesday.The handover...the surfaces of the ship, docked at the Turku shipyard some 165 kilometers (100 miles...
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Cruising through Finland's Aland Isles
Newspaper article by John Mccaslin; The Washington Times, July 14, 1996
Subjects: Finland
...Unfortunately, our ship sails for Turku, Finland, in less than an hour. Visitors can reach Aland by boat from Turku and Naantali, also in Finland, or Stockholm...Sweden. Since we flew to Mariehamn from Turku (a quick and convenient flight aboard...
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encyclopedia articles on: Turku  - 4 results

 
 
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Turku
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TURKU toor koo, Swed. Abo, city (1998 pop. 170,931), capital...also important. Known as the "cradle of Finnish culture," Turku is among Finlands oldest cities. Swedish Crusaders landed...capital of Finland until 1812. The national university was in Turku from 1640 to 1827, when a fire destroyed almost the entire...
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Åbo
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ABO Finland: see Turku . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Helsinki
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Helsinki grew rapidly after Alexander I of Russia moved (1812) the capital there from Turku. When the Univ. of Helsinki (founded 1640) was moved from Turku in 1828, Helsinki became the center of Finnish nationalism. The construction of the first...
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Finland
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Lahti , Lappeenranta , Oulu , Pori , Tampere , Turku , Vaasa , and Vantaa . Finnish and Swedish are both official...taken in 1721 and 1743. In 1812, Finlands capital was moved from Turku to Helsinki. Government in the country was headed by a Russian...


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