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Turku

American  
[toor-koo] / ˈtʊər ku /

noun

  1. a seaport in southwestern Finland.


Turku British  
/ ˈturku /

noun

  1. Swedish name: Åbo.  a city and port in SW Finland, on the Gulf of Bothnia: capital of Finland until 1812. Pop: 175 059 (2003 est)

"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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"We are not claiming that bees think like humans," says Loukola, who currently works as a Senior Researcher at the University of Turku.

From Science Daily Jul. 3, 2026

InFLAMES Flagship is a joint initiative between the University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University in Finland.

From Science Daily May 28, 2026

Researchers from the University of Turku, Finland, and the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, have now proposed a theoretical idea and made corresponding experiments to overcome this problem.

From Science Daily May 2, 2024

Therefore, the researchers from the University of Turku also published an online identification key.

From Science Daily Feb. 29, 2024

Abo, the ancient capital of Finland, was called Turku, which is the Swedish word torg, market.

From Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)

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