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Definition of Aland

1. adv. On land; to the land; ashore.

Definition of Aland

1. Proper noun. An archipelago in the Baltic Sea ¹

2. Proper noun. An autonomous province of Finland, consisting of the Aland archipelago. ¹

3. Adverb. On land; to the land; ashore. ¹

4. Proper noun. An autonomous province in Finland. Swedish speaking group of islands between Finland and Sweden. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Aland

1. alan [n -S] - See also: alan

Lexicographical Neighbors of Aland

Literary usage of Aland

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Treaty of Peace with Germany by Germany (1918- ), Germany (1918- ) Treaties, etc. 1918-, Allied and Associated Powers (1914-1920), United States Congress Senate, Germany, etc. 1918 Treaties, June 28 Treaty with Germany, 1919 (1919)
"The Importance for Sweden to get into possession of the Aland Islands la well ... The Island of Aland is the key to Stockholm and to the whole of Sweden. ..."

2. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Courts of King's Bench and by George Wilson, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas (1792)
"The defendant Aland Maßn by his ... facias and return, after having which they plead, that the faid Aland ..."

3. A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and by William Tooke, William Beloe, Robert Nares (1798)
"of Aland in compliment to his ... Aland, as an Oxonian, greatly improved his natural endowments, ..."

4. Travels Through Sweden, Finland, and Lapland, to the North Cape, in the by Giuseppe Acerbi (1802)
"An Account of the I/les of Aland—Their Situation, Name, and Hif- tory—Parities and Civil Regulations—Soil and Produce—The Inhabitants; their Manners and ..."

5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1855)
"Aland—THB BALTIC IN 1854. AT the entrance of the Gulf of Bothnia, and about midway betwixt the coasts of Finland and Sweden, covering much of the ..."

6. Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa by Edward Daniel Clarke (1824)
"STOCKHOLM TO Aland. ... Nomenclature—Dangerous situation of the Author and his Companions—Providential escape—Aspect of affairs in landing upon Aland— ..."

7. Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia: A Study of Historical Biography by Eugene Schuyler (1884)
"THE Aland CONGRESS. THE PEACE OF NYSTAD. 1718-1721. ... as a compromise they had agreed upon the village of Lofo, near Bomarsund, on the island of Aland. ..."

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