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Uleåborg

British  
/ ˈuːlioˌbɔrjə /

noun

  1. the Swedish name for Oulu

"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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After spending some days in Uleåborg, it became necessary to make a forward movement—not towards Lapland, as originally intended, for that had been vetoed as impossible in summer.

From Through Finland in Carts by Alec-Tweedie, Mrs. (Ethel)

We had to rough it while travelling from Kuopio to Uleåborg.

From Through Finland in Carts by Alec-Tweedie, Mrs. (Ethel)

Soon after leaving Uleåborg we found the peasants speaking Swedish.

From Through Finland in Carts by Alec-Tweedie, Mrs. (Ethel)

The train journey from Uleåborg to Åbo occupies thirty hours, while the steamer dawdles placidly over the same distance for three days and a half.

From Through Finland in Carts by Alec-Tweedie, Mrs. (Ethel)

Uleåborg, which we had just left, is perhaps the most northerly town of any importance in Europe, and, after Helsingfors, it is the most imposing in Finland.

From Through Finland in Carts by Alec-Tweedie, Mrs. (Ethel)

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