See also:

• VASA, or NIKOLAISTAD

VASA, or NIKOLAISTAD  , in the See also:

• GRAND

grand duchy of See also:

• FINLAND (Finnish, Suomi or Suomenmaa)

Finland, See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital of the See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province of See also:

• VASA, or NIKOLAISTAD

Vasa, on the See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

east See also:

• COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast of the Gulf of See also:

• BOTHNIA, GULF OF

Bothnia, 327 M. by See also:

• RAIL

rail See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north-See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

west of See also:

• HELSINGFORS (Finnish Helsinki)

Helsingfors . Pop . (1904) 18,028 . It has two classical lyceums for boys and three for girls, a school of See also:

• NAVIGATION (from Lat. navis, ship, and agere, to move)

navigation, and a large number of See also:

• PRIMARY

primary See also:

• SCHOOLS

schools . There is a shipyard and a considerable export See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade . Vasa was founded on the coast of the Gulf of Bothnia in 16o6, but after the See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire of 1852, as the See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

sea had already receded for a considerable distance, the See also:

• TOWN

town was rebuilt nearer to the See also:

• SHORE

shore and received the See also:

• OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

official name of Nikolaistad . The See also:

• POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population of the province (1904) was 295,187 .