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Aili Kari
Aili is a Finnish, Sami and Estonian female given name, with the pronunciation ɪliː It is the Finnish variation of the name Helga, via the Sami Áile, deriving ultimately from ''heilagr'', meaning "holy", or "blessed". Ailikki is a diminutive. Aili has also been used as an anglicised spelling of Eilidh, in this case with the pronunciation ɪli Eilidh is a diminutive for Eilionoir, the Scottish version of Eleanor. The meaning of Eleanor is disputed, but the theory most supported by evidence is that it is derived from the Old Germanic name Adenorde, via the Provençal Alienor. Aili can also be considered a diminutive for various names, such as Aileen. Some notable bearers of the name Aili: * Aili Alliksoo (born 1959), Estonian sprinter and hurdler * Aili Jõgi (born 1931), Estonian patriot * Aili Keskitalo (born 1968), Norwegian-Sami politician, president of the Sami Parliament of Norway * Aili Siiskonen (1907–1983), Finnish journalist, civil servant and politician * Aili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland across Estonia to the south. Finland covers an area of with a population of 5.6 million. Helsinki is the capital and largest city, forming a larger metropolitan area with the neighbouring cities of Espoo, Kauniainen, and Vantaa. The vast majority of the population are ethnic Finns. Finnish, alongside Swedish, are the official languages. Swedish is the native language of 5.2% of the population. Finland's climate varies from humid continental in the south to the boreal in the north. The land cover is primarily a boreal forest biome, with more than 180,000 recorded lakes. Finland was first inhabited around 9000 BC after the Last Glacial Period. The Stone Age introduced several differ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sápmi
(, smj, Sábme / Sámeednam, sma, Saepmie, sju, Sábmie, , , sjd, Са̄мь е̄ммьне, Saam' jiemm'n'e) is the cultural region traditionally inhabited by the Sámi people. Sápmi is in Northern and Eastern Europe and includes the northern parts of Fennoscandia, also known as the "Cap of the North". The region stretches over four countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. On the north it is bounded by the Barents Sea, on the west by the Norwegian Sea, and on the east by the White Sea."Lapland." Encyclopædia Britannica. ''Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica'', 2009. Web. 24 November 2009 http://search.eb.com/eb/article-9047170. The area is historically referred to as Lapland () in English, although the term "Lapp" for its inhabitants is now considered pejorative.; ; Norwegian Sápmi was historically called ''Finnmǫrk'', a name used for the former county Finnmark, now Troms og Finnmark. Sápmi refers to the areas where the Sámi people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Lake Peipus and Russia. The territory of Estonia consists of the mainland, the larger islands of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa, and over 2,200 other islands and islets on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, covering a total area of . The capital city Tallinn and Tartu are the two largest urban areas of the country. The Estonian language is the autochthonous and the official language of Estonia; it is the first language of the majority of its population, as well as the world's second most spoken Finnic language. The land of what is now modern Estonia has been inhabited by '' Homo sapiens'' since at least 9,000 BC. The medieval indigenous population of Estonia was one of the last " pagan" civilisations in Europe to adopt Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eilidh
Eilidh (); is a Scottish Gaelic feminine given name. Although it is the equivalent of Ellie, it is usually anglicized as Helen. Persons with the name include: * Eilidh Barbour, Scottish television presenter *Eilidh Doyle, British track and field athlete *Eilidh Gibson, Scottish slalom canoeist * Eilidh MacQueen, Scottish actress *Eilidh Mackenzie, Scottish singer and member of Mac-Talla * Eilidh McCreadie, Scottish radio drama director *Eilidh McIntyre, British sailor * Eilidh Middleton, Scottish equestrian * Eilidh Patterson, singer, songwriter * Eilidh Shaw, Scottish fiddler *Eilidh Watt, Scottish Gaelic broadcaster and writer *Eilidh Whiteford, Scottish National Party politician See also *Helensburgh Helensburgh (; gd, Baile Eilidh) is an affluent coastal town on the north side of the Firth of Clyde in Scotland, situated at the mouth of the Gareloch. Historically in Dunbartonshire, it became part of Argyll and Bute following local governm ..., Argyll ( gd, Baile Eilidh) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleanor
Eleanor () is a feminine given name, originally from an Old French adaptation of the Old Provençal name ''Aliénor''. It is the name of a number of women of royalty and nobility in western Europe during the High Middle Ages. The name was introduced to England by Eleanor of Aquitaine, who came to marry King Henry II. It was also borne by Eleanor of Provence, who became Queen consort of England as the wife of King Henry III, and Eleanor of Castile, wife of Edward I. The name was popular in the United States in the 1910s and 1920s, peaking at rank 25 in 1920. It declined below 600 by the 1970s, again rose to rank 32 in the 2010s. Eleanor Roosevelt, the longest-serving first lady of the US was probably the most famous bearer of the name in contemporary history. Common hypocorisms include Elle, Ella, Ellie, Elly, Leonor, Leonora, Leonore, Nella, Nellie, Nelly, and Nora. Origin The name derives from the Provençal name Aliénor, which became Eléonore in ''Langue d'oïl'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aileen
Aileen is a feminine given name. Its common used in Ireland. It comes from the Turkish name Aylin, which means "Halo of the moon". Notable people with the name include: * Aileen Adams (born 1923), British consultant anaesthetist *Aileen Allen (1888–1950), American diver * Aileen Armitage (born 1930), British writer and author *Aileen Baviera (1959–2020), Filipino political scientist and sinologist *Aileen Bernal (born 1994), Panamanian model and beauty pageant contestant winner *Aileen Britton (1916–1986), Australian actress *Aileen Bryan (1925–2005), American sailor *Aileen Campbell (born 1980), Scottish politician * Aileen Cannon (born 1981), American lawyer and federal judge *Aileen Carroll (1944–2020), Canadian politician *Aileen Christianson (1944–2020), English lecturer *Aileen Convery (born 1969), Irish swimmer *Aileen H. Cowan (born 1926), Canadian painter and sculptor *Aileen Crowley (born 1994), Irish rower *Aileen Cust (1868–1937), Anglo-Irish veterinary s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aili Alliksoo
Aili Alliksoo (since 1980 Aili Kägu; born 9 July 1959) is an Estonian athletics competitor. She was born in Kiviõli. In 1977 she graduated from Tallinn sport school (TSIK), and 1983 Tallinn Pedagogical Institute in Russian language and literature speciality. She started her sporting exercising already in Püssi Püssi is a town in Lüganuse Parish, Ida-Viru County, in northeastern Estonia, with a population of 917 . It is located near the road between Tallinn and St. Petersburg. History Following the end of the Soviet Union's 45-year rule over Estonia, ... primary school, coached by Enno Osi. She is multiple-times Estonian champion in different running disciplines. In 1978 and 1982, she won two gold medals at Soviet national sport competitions (). 1975–1982 she was a member of Estonian national athletics team. Personal records: * 100 m: 11.8 (1979). References {{DEFAULTSORT:Alliksoo, Aili Living people 1959 births Estonian female hurdlers Estonian female sprinters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aili Jõgi
Aili Jõgi (''née'' Aili Jürgenson; 24 May 1931 – 9 August 2017) was an Estonian schoolgirl who on the night of 8 May 1946, together with her school friend Ageeda Paavel, blew up a Soviet War reburial monument (a wooden memorial topped with a star): the preceding monument to the Bronze Soldier in Tallinn. She was born in Tallinn. After the Soviet re-occupation of Estonia in 1944, the Soviet occupation authorities began systematically destroying the war memorials to the fallen in the Estonian War of Independence, which had survived the war. On 15 April 1945 a monument by Amandus Adamson, erected to 87 persons who had fallen in the Estonian War of Independence, was blown up in Pärnu with explosives. Also between 1944 and 1946 the gravestones of the Tallinn Military Cemetery were destroyed by the Soviet authorities and the Estonian graveyard was reused by the Red Army. Aili Jõgi described why the two schoolgirls blew up a monument they considered a symbol of occupation and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aili Keskitalo
Aili Keskitalo (born 29 October 1968) is a Norwegian Sami politician representing the Norwegian Sámi Association (NSR), who has served as the president of the Sami Parliament for three terms, from 2005 to 2007, 2013 to 2016 and 2017 to 2021. Prior to her current presidency, she served as president of the Sami Parliament of Norway in 2005, the third in its history and the first female President of any Sami Parliament. She stepped down in September 2007. The collapse of her coalition made way for the first ever non-NSR presidency, led by Egil Olli from the Norwegian Labour Party. She was re-elected in 2013 and served until 2016. The year after she returned for her third stint as president of the Sami Parliament. In 2020, Keskitalo announced that she would not seek re-election in the 2021 election. She has a Master in Public Administration from Copenhagen Business School, in which she compared the school systems in Norway and GreenlandKeskitalo, Aili 2005: ''Høyere utdanningsinst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sami Parliament Of Norway
Acronyms * SAMI, ''Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange'', a closed-captioning format developed by Microsoft * Saudi Arabian Military Industries, a government-owned defence company * South African Malaria Initiative, a virtual expertise network of malaria researchers People * Samee, also spelled Sami, a male given name * Sami (name), including lists of people with the given name or surname * Sámi people, indigenous people of the Scandinavian Peninsula, the Kola Peninsula, Karelia and Finland ** Sámi cuisine ** Sámi languages, of the Sami people ** Sámi shamanism, a faith of the Sami people Places * Sápmi, a cultural region in Northern Europe * Sami (ancient city), in Elis, Greece * Sami Bay, east of Sami, Cephalonia * Sami District, Gambia * Sami, Burkina Faso, a district of the Banwa Province * Sami, Cephalonia, a municipality in Greece * Sami, Gujarat, a town in Patan district of Gujarat, India * Sami, Paletwa, a town in Chin State, Myanmar * Sämi, a village in L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aili Siiskonen
Aili Siiskonen (9 February 1907 in Mikkeli – 15 January 1983) was a Finnish journalist, civil servant and politician. She was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1958 to 1962 and from 1966 to 1970. She was at first a member of the Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP) and later of the Social Democratic Union of Workers and Smallholders Social Democratic Union of Workers and Smallholders ( fi, Työväen ja Pienviljelijäin Sosialidemokraattinen Liitto, TPSL) was a political party in Finland. TPSL originated as a fraction of the Social Democratic Party of Finland, headed by Emil ... (TPSL). References {{DEFAULTSORT:Siiskonen, Aili 1907 births 1983 deaths People from Mikkeli People from Mikkeli Province (Grand Duchy of Finland) Social Democratic Party of Finland politicians Social Democratic Union of Workers and Smallholders politicians Members of the Parliament of Finland (1958–1962) Members of the Parliament of Finland (1966–1970) 20th-century Finni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
