Third Swedish Crusade | |||||||||
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Part of the Northern Crusades and the Swedish–Novgorodian Wars | |||||||||
![]() Swedish eastern expansion in Finland, 1249–1323 | |||||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||||
Sweden |
Novgorod Pagan Karelians | ||||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
Birger Magnusson Torkel Knutsson Sigge Lake † Bishop Petrus[1] | Roman Glebovich | ||||||||
Strength | |||||||||
Unknown | Unknown |
The Third Swedish Crusade to Finland was a Swedish military expedition against the pagan Karelians from 1293 to 1295 in which the Swedes successfully expanded their borders eastwards and gained further control of their lands in Finland. After the crusade, Western Karelia remained under Swedish rule until the Treaty of Nystad in 1721.[2]
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