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	<title>Medieval Castles &#187; Finnish medieval castles</title>
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		<title>Kuusisto Castle</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[there was one more fairly big castle which played an important part in the history of the Finnish part of the kingdom of Sweden throughout the Middle Ages. This castle, called Kuusisto (or Kustö in Swedish), lay just southeast of Turku]]></description>
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		<title>Olavinlinna Castle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Olavinlinna was not built in vain. Ivan III put his threat into practice and the castle was besieged in both 1495 and 1496, but withstood the siege both times. More sieges followed during King Gustavus Vasa's Russian campaign in 1555-1557, when the castle had a garrison of about 200 men.]]></description>
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		<title>Kastelholm Castle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The defense function was more complicated, because it involved the defense of more than just the Åland islands themselves. A statement from 1525 describes Kastelholm as "a key to Sweden", evidence of the importance attributed to Kastelholm as a last maritime outpost in the defense of Stockholm.]]></description>
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		<title>Raseborg Castle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Raseborg was functional until the 1550s, when King Gustavus Vasa found it was completely outdated as a defense against contemporary firearms. Power and authority was therefore transferred from the castle to the newly founded towns of Tammisaari and Helsinki. Today, Raseborg is a rather spectacular ruin, well worth a visit.]]></description>
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		<title>Turku Castle</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The citadel had probably outlived its usefulness by the beginning of the 14th century, when three gates were walled shut and it was converted into a closed keep.]]></description>
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