Vyborg

:For other uses, see Vyborg (disambiguation)

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Vyborg (Cyrillic ?????? , Finnish Viipuri, German Wiburg) is a town with 70,000 inhabitants on the Karelian Isthmus, near the head of the Bay of Vyborg, 130 km to the north-west of Saint Petersburg, 38 km south from Russia's border with Finland, where the Saimensky Canal enters the Gulf of Finland.

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The area where Vyborg is located used to be a trading center on River Vuoksi's western branch, which has been dried up. The area used to be inhabited by the Karelians, a Finnic tribe which gradually came under the domination of Novgorod and Sweden.

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The first castle of Viborg was founded during the third Swedish crusade in 1293 by the marshal Torkel Knutsson. The castle was fought over for centuries between Sweden and the Republic of Novgorod. By the treaty of N?teborg in 1323 Viborg was finally recognzied as a part of Sweden.

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