Tampere
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Tampere is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Pirkanmaa. It is in the Finnish Lakeland. Tampere's population is about 263,000, while the metropolitan area has a population of about 428,000.
Clockwise from top: the cityscape (viewed from Näsinneula); Tampere City Hall; Särkänniemi (from Näsinneula); Tampere Hall; the skyline with Näsinneula; Tammerkoski from Hämeensilta Bridge; and the Cathedral.
Messukylä Old Church, built between 1510 and 1530
Tampere seen from the Messukylä side of Tammerkoski in the 1837 artwork by Pehr Adolf Kruskopf
The Renaissance Revival Raatihuone (City Hall), 1890; the Red Declaration was read from its balcony in 1905.
Battle of Tampere
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The Battle of Tampere was a 1918 Finnish Civil War battle, fought in Tampere, Finland from 15 March to 6 April between the Whites and the Reds. It is the most famous and deadly of all the Finnish Civi
The Tammela neighborhood after the battle
Fallen Red Guard fighters
Wounded Red soldiers in a hospital
Swedish volunteers