Carl Gustav Emil Mannerheim (born in 1867 in Finland, died in 1951 in Lausanne, Switzerland) was the sixth President of the Republic of Finland (1944-46), Marshal of Finland, and one of the most important personalities in relation to the history of the Finnish independence, being the Regent of Finland in 1918-1919 ...

Finland's history begins some 10,000 years ago when the territory of the current Finland started releasing from the thick ice that had covered its surface during the ice age. That is when the area now known as Finland was inhabited by the first settlers who came from the south and east. Throughout the prehistoric era, until the end of the Viking Age around the year 1050, Finland was ...