Turku
Proper noun
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Turku
A city in Finland.
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All Finnish national TV channels are viewable and national radio channels audible in the Turku area.
Aurakatu area in the 1910s In 1918, a new university, the Åbo Akademi – the only Swedish language university in Finland – was founded in Turku.
A year later, on 8 December 1915, Sibelius presented the revised version of his Fifth Symphony in Turku, combining the first two movements and simplifying the finale.
A more exclusive definition for the urban area is the city region of Turku with a population around 235,000 consisting of four major municipalities Kaarina, Raisio, Naantali, and Turku.
As of 2010, Turku and Tampere have preliminary plans for new tram systems, but no decision to build them has been made.
Even if Turku had no official capital status, both the short-lived institutions of Dukes and Governors-General of Finland usually had their Finnish residences there.