| Third Swedish Crusade | |||||||||
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| Part of the Northern Crusades and the Swedish–Novgorodian Wars | |||||||||
_c_1322.jpg) Birger Magnusson, the Swedish king at the time of the Crusade. | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| Sweden |
Novgorod Pagan Karelians | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Birger Magnusson Torkel Knutsson Sigge Lake † Bishop Petrus[1] | Roman Glebovich | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| Unknown | Unknown | ||||||||
| Christianization of Finland | ||||||||
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| People | ||||||||
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| Locations | ||||||||
| Kokemäki ● Köyliö ● Nousiainen ● Koroinen ● Turku Cathedral | ||||||||
| Events | ||||||||
| Finnish-Novgorodian wars First Swedish Crusade Second Swedish Crusade Third Swedish Crusade | ||||||||
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.
- ^ Cornelius, Karl Alfred (1892). "Handbok i svenska kyrkans historia".