Tammerfors
Americannoun
noun
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Steam navigation on the Gulf of Bothnia extends only to Uleaborg, and is, so far as I can learn, actually non-existent on the great lakes, except between Tanasthuus and Tammerfors.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. by Various
German troops were landed in Finland April 3, and on the same day the Finnish White Guards captured Tammerfors.
From Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 by Various
Tammerfors may be called the Manchester of Finland; but the towns are really hardly worth mentioning as towns, being all built of wood and utterly lacking historical interest.
From Through Finland in Carts by Mrs. (Ethel) Alec-Tweedie
He told me that the police were in the vicinity and intended to raid the hut, therefore I fled with him, first down to Tammerfors and then to Abo, and on here.
From The Czar's Spy The Mystery of a Silent Love by William Le Queux
The Finns say that this is the heart of their country, while Helsingfors and Tammerfors constitute its brains.
From Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers by Esther Singleton
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