This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (November 2006)

Viborgs och Nyslotts län Viipurin ja Savonlinnan lääni County of Viborg and Nyslott¹ County of the Swedish Empire ← 1634 – 1721 →   → Flag Provinces of the Swedish Empire around the Gulf of Finland in the 17th Century. Capital Viborg History  - Treaty of Stolbovo February 17, 1617  - Established 1634  - Great Northern War 1700–21  - Treaty of Nystad August 30 1721 ¹ Prior to 1658 it was known as the County of Karelia (Swedish: Karelens län, Finnish: Karjalan lääni).

An engraving of Viborg Castle from Suecia antiqua et hodierna.

A photograph of St. Olaf's Castle at Nyslott.

The County of Viborg and Nyslott (Swedish: Viborgs och Nyslotts län, Finnish: Viipurin ja Savonlinnan lääni) was a county of the Swedish Empire from 1634 to 1721. Prior to 1658 it was known as the County of Karelia (Swedish: Karelens län, Finnish: Karjalan lääni). The county was named after the castle towns of Viborg (Finnish: Viipuri) and Nyslott (Finnish: Savonlinna, literally New Castle), today located in the towns of Vyborg in Russia and Savonlinna in Finland.

The county was established in 1634 as the County of Karelia, but in 1641 the County of Nyslott (Swedish: Nyslotts län, Finnish: Savonlinnan lääni) was broken out and made a separate entity. In 1658 the counties were joined again as the County of Viborg and Nyslott.

Following the Great Northern War parts of the southern parts were ceded to Russia in 1721, and the territory that remained was reconsitituted into the County of Savolax and Kymmenegård (Swedish: Savolax och Kymmenegårds län, Finnish: Savonlinnan ja Kymenkartanon lääni), with the reminder of the County of Kexholm. In 1743 following a new conflict another part in the south was ceded to Russia in the Treaty of Åbo. Togeather the ceded territories became part of the Russian Governorate of Vyborg, which also became known as Old Finland.

After the Russian victory in the Finnish War in 1809, Sweden ceded all its territory in Finland to Russia by the Treaty of Fredrikshamn, where it came to constitute a separate grand duchy. In 1812 Russia made the Governorate of Vyborg part of the new Grand Duchy of Finland.

After World War II the Soviet Union annexed parts of the area and the remainder was renamed the Province of Kymi. In the reform in 1997 it was added to the Province of Southern Finland.

[edit] Other Sources

• The County of the Castle of Vyborg (Karelian database) http://personal.inet.fi/palvelu/karjala-tk/en/history/vyborg.htm

[edit] External links

• Vyborg

[edit] See also

• Fief of Viborg
• Governorate of Vyborg