Zwischen West und Ost. 800 Jahre an der Ostgrenze Finnlands

Katajala, Kimmo

doi:10.13109/kize.2010.23.1.81

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“…In the peace treaty, the border was described in four sections: -The demarcation departed from the northern shore of the Gulf of Finland as a natural boundary, following River Kymmene northwards. Natural shapes have been exploited abundantly in history (Katajala, K. 2010). -The second section started at the meeting place of the River Kymmene and the border of the County of Tavastland.…”

Section: Territorial Shapementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The territorial shape of the state partly overcame the interests towards the population (Sunderland, W. 2007;Katajala, K. 2010). Amnesty was declared for all prejudicial acts during the war by the second article of the peace treaty of 1743.…”

Section: Territorial Shapementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The king of Sweden and the empress of Russia signed the peace treaty of 1743 on behalf of 'the realms, lands, subjects and inhabitants'. It was a contract obligating not only the rulers but also people living within certain territories (Katajala, K. 2010;Liikanen, I. 2014).…”

Section: Symbolic Shapementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The idea of the territorial state had developed stronger in the Nordic context since the late 17 th century. Therefore, it was now possible to demarcate the new borders without considering the local circumstances to remarkable extend (Katajala, K. 2010). Nevertheless, the power had to be legitimised and established at the borderland, a process that can be called the institutionalization of regions.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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‘Divided and validated’? The institutionalization of the Russo-Swedish border region in the 1743 peace treaty

Merovuo

2017

HunGeoBull

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In this article, I analyse the institutionalization of the border region between Sweden and Imperial Russia presented in the peace treaty signed in Åbo (now Turku) in 1743. The RussoSwedish war of 1741-1743 was disastrous for Sweden. Instead of regaining the losses suffered on the eastern front in the previous war (1700-1721), Sweden ceded more territory to Russia shifting the state border westwards again. The new border located in the middle of the present-day eastern Finnish countryside followed no religious or linguistic divisions. The peace treaty was a top-down measure. However, one must recognise that regions were institutionalised in several parallel and interactive processes. I apply the approach of institutionalization of regions to categorise the peace treaty according to the four dimensions of the approach. The aim is to untangle the official re-establishment of the new regional order to indicate the room for the local influencing. I conclude that the peace treaty did not extensively define the shape of the border region, which led to challenges in reshaping and further developing the border region in the local practices. Classifying the region building process according to the dimensions of the regional institutionalization -though intertwined in practice -provide comparativeness for the local progressions foregrounding their distinctive and consistent characteristics.

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Section: Territorial Shapementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Territorial Shapementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Symbolic Shapementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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