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Tammerfors

American  
[tahm-muhr-fawrs] / ˌtɑm mərˈfɔrs /

noun

  1. Swedish name of Tampere.


Tammerfors British  
/ tamərˈfɔrs /

noun

  1. the Swedish name for Tampere

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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She seems to have met this Englishman up at Tammerfors, or at some place further north, yet it is curious that her passport should be in order even though she fled so precipitately from Kajana.

From The Czar's Spy The Mystery of a Silent Love by Le Queux, William

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

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 Le Queux, William

She arrived yesterday morning from Tammerfors accompanied by an Englishman.

From The Czar's Spy The Mystery of a Silent Love by Le Queux, William

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

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