The Fennoman movement or Fennomania was a Finnish nationalist movement in the 19th-century Grand Duchy of Finland , built on the work of the fennophile interests of the 18th and early-19th centuries.
4-515: Kansallis-Osake-Pankki ( KOP ) was a Finnish commercial bank operating from 1889 to 1995. It was created by the fennoman movement as a Finnish language alternative to the largely Swedish language bank, Suomen Yhdyspankki ( Swedish: Föreningsbanken i Finland ). The two banks were merged in 1995 to form the Merita Bank . Merita Bank was later merged with Swedish Nordbanken to form Nordea . This Finnish corporation or company article
8-641: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Fennoman After the Crimean War , Fennomans founded the Finnish Party and intensified the language strife , yearning to raise the Finnish language and Finnic culture from peasant status to the position of a national language and a national culture. The opposition, the Svecomans , tried to defend the status of Swedish and the ties to
12-540: The Germanic world . Although the notion of Fennomans was not as common after the generation of Juho Kusti Paasikivi (born 1870), their ideas have dominated the Finns' understanding of their nation. The mother tongue of many of the first generation of Fennomans, like Johan Vilhelm Snellman , was Swedish. Some of the originally Swedish-speaking Fennomans learned Finnish, and made a point of using it inside and outside
16-643: The home. Several Fennomans were from Finnish or bilingual homes. Some originally had Swedish surnames, common in Finland at that time. Most of the Fennomans also Finnicized their family names, particularly from the end of the 19th century. In the last years of the 19th century, and in the first years of the 20th, the Fennoman movement split into two political parties: the Old Finnish Party and
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