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The Hanko Peninsula, on which the town is located, is the southernmost tip of continental Finland.
Following the armistice of the Finnish Winter War on March 6, 1940, Hanko was leased to the Soviet Union as a military base for a period of 50 years. During the Continuation War, Soviet troops were forced to evacuate Hanko in early December 1941. The Soviet Union renounced the lease formally in the Paris peace treaty of 1947. As a curiosity, it can be noted that the short Russo-Finnish front queer over the base of the peninsula on the Finnish side was held by volunteer troops from Sweden.
The role of the Hanko naval base was replaced by PorkkalaPorkkala is a peninsula in the Gulf of Finland, located at Kirkkonummi in Southern Finland. The peninsula has great strategical value, as modern artillery based there would be able to reach more than halfway across the Gulf of Finland. If the same power w in the armistice between Finland and the Soviet Union of September 19September 19 is the 262nd day of the year (263rd in leap years). There are 103 days remaining. Events 1356 In Battle of Poitiers English defeat French 1692 Giles Corey is pressed to death after refusing to plead in the Salem witch trials. 1777 First Battl, 1944Events World War II January January 4 The Battle of Monte Cassino begins. January 5 Murder of Danish playwright Kaj Munck January 17 British forces, in Italy, cross the Garigliano River. January 20 The Royal Air Force drops 2,300 tons of bombs on Berlin;.
The Hangon Regatta has been a traditional fixture on the Finnish social scene. Many people who have very little or no interest in sailingSailing is motion across a body of water in a sailing ship, or smaller boat, powered by wind. How sailing works The force of the wind is used to create motion by using one or more sails. The movement of the air over the sails acts in the same way that air, attend nevertheless in order to party and absorb the atmosphere.
See also: World War IIWorld War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. The war was fough
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