Kaleva
Kaleva or Kalevi may refer to: * CWT Kaleva Travel, a travel management company based in Finland * Kalevi (mythology), the great king of Kainuu in Finnish, Karelian and Estonian mythology * ''Kaleva'' (wasp), a wasp genus in the subfamily Pteromalinae * Kaleva (Tampere), a portion of the city of Tampere, Finland ** Kaleva Church * ''Kaleva'' (airplane), registered as OH-ALL, civilian airliner shot down by Soviet bombers in 1940 * ''Kaleva'' (newspaper), a newspaper founded in 1899 in Oulu in northern Finland * Kaleva, Michigan, a village in the United States, founded by Finnish settlers * Kaleva Mutual Insurance Company, Finnish insurance company. Part of Sampo Group Sampo is a northern European P&C insurance group with operations in the Nordics, Baltics, and the UK. Sampo is made up of the parent company Sampo plc, If P&C Insurance, Danish insurer Topdanmark and British P&C insurer Hastings Insurance. Th ...

Kalevi (mythology)
Kaleva – also known as Kalevi or Kalev – and his sons are important heroic figures in Estonian, Finnish and Karelian mythology. In the Finnish epic the ''Kalevala'', he is an ancient Finnish ruler. In Estonian mythology and Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald's epic poem ''Kalevipoeg'', King Kalev was the father of King Kalevipoeg and the husband of Linda. History Some historians have suggested that the oldest known written reference to Kaleva (Kalev / Kalevi) can be found in the 6th- or 7th-century Anglo-Saxon poem "Widsith", which was copied into the Exeter Book, a manuscript of Old English poems compiled in the late 10th century. "Widsith" states that Caesar ruled the Greeks, Caelic the Finns ... I was with the Greeks and Finns and also with Caesar ... Some historians have interpreted the term "Caelic" to refer to the ancient Finnish ruler Kaleva mentioned in the Kalevala. The first clear written references appear in a list of deities published by Mikael Agricola in 1551 ...
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Kaleva (newspaper)
''Kaleva'' is a Finnish language, Finnish subscription newspaper published in Oulu, Finland. History and profile ''Kaleva'' was founded in 1899 by Juho Raappana. The owner of the paper is Kaleva Oy and its publisher is Kaleva publishing house. The paper is based in Oulu and is published in broadsheet format. Although ''Kaleva'' has a neutral stance and no political affiliation, the paper supported the Progress Party until 1953. Since 2015 Kyösti Karvonen has been serving as the editor-in-chief of ''Kaleva''. In 2011 ''Kaleva'' published a report on the sexual abuse of children by the members of the Conservative Laestadianism, leading to public anger and the cancellation of subscription by nearly 200 readers. Circulation In 1993 ''Kaleva'' had a Newspaper circulation, circulation of 95,118 copies. Its circulation was 83,151 copies in 2001. It had a circulation of 82,600 copies in 2003. The 2004 circulation of the paper was 82,566 copies and it was the fourth best-selling pape ...
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Kaleva Church
Kaleva Church (; ) is an Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland church building in the Liisankallio district of Tampere, Finland. It was designed by Reima and Raili Pietilä and built in 1964–66. The church accommodates approximately 1,120 people. It is considered an example of modern architectural style and is one of the main sights of Tampere. History Kaleva parish was established in 1953, but without its own church. In 1959, the board of the Evangelical Lutheran Churches in Tampere announced a competition to design a church building for the parish. The entry selected was by architect Reima Pietilä, whose architectural partner (and, from 1963, wife) Raili Paatelainen later became involved in the project. The site chosen for the church was a small hill at the head of the convergence of two of Tampere's major streets: Teiskontie and Sammonkatu. Architecture The building was constructed using slip forming. It is made from 17 narrow -high hollow concrete u-shapes, with ...
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Kaleva (airplane)
''Kaleva'' was a civilian Junkers Ju 52 passenger airplane belonging to the Finnish carrier Aero O/Y. On 14 June 1940, as Flight 1631 from Tallinn in Estonia to Helsinki in Finland, it was shot down over the Gulf of Finland by two combat aircraft of the Soviet military and downed near the Estonian island of Keri, killing all nine on board. The incident occurred during the Interim Peace between the Soviet Union and Finland, and at the outset of the Soviet occupation of Estonia. The airplane's wreck was found on 5 June 2024 by Estonian unmanned underwater vehicles near the Keri lighthouse in Estonian territorial waters. The wreck is located at a depth of 71 to 76 meters. Shootdown On 14 June 1940, ''Kaleva'' had already made the scheduled stops along the route Stockholm-Turku-Helsinki-Tallinn and, as Aero Flight 1631 on its first return leg, was due to fly from Tallinn (Ülemiste) to Helsinki (Malmi) airport. A few minutes after taking off from Tallinn, the airliner was jo ...
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Kaleva, Michigan
Kaleva ( ) is a village in Manistee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 507 at the 2020 census. History Kaleva was founded in 1900 and became a refuge for Finnish settlers. The name of the village comes from the ''Kalevala'', the national epic of Finland. There are two Michigan historical markers in the town. The historic John J. Makinen Bottle House is one, and Kaleva itself is the subject of the second. Geography Kaleva is in central Manistee County, within Maple Grove Township. It is part of the region of Northern Michigan. Manistee, the county seat, is to the southwest, while Cadillac is to the east-southeast. An abandoned C&O Railroad line from Manistee to Traverse City passes through the village. There are no railroad tracks remaining. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village of Kaleva has a total area of , all land. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 470 people, 206 households, and 125 families ...
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Kaleva (wasp)
Kaleva or Kalevi may refer to: * CWT Kaleva Travel, a travel management company based in Finland * Kalevi (mythology), a character in Finnish, Karelian and Estonian mythology * ''Kaleva'' (wasp), a wasp genus in the subfamily Pteromalinae * Kaleva (Tampere), a portion of the city of Tampere, Finland ** Kaleva Church * ''Kaleva'' (airplane), registered as OH-ALL, civilian airliner shot down by Soviet bombers in 1940 * ''Kaleva'' (newspaper), a newspaper founded in 1899 in Oulu in northern Finland * Kaleva, Michigan, a village in the United States, founded by Finnish settlers * Kaleva Mutual Insurance Company, Finnish insurance company. Part of Sampo Group Sampo is a northern European P&C insurance group with operations in the Nordics, Baltics, and the UK. Sampo is made up of the parent company Sampo plc, If P&C Insurance, Danish insurer Topdanmark and British P&C insurer Hastings Insurance. Th ...

Kaleva (Tampere)
Kaleva is an eastern part of the city of Tampere, Finland, located south of the Kauppi district. It is part of larger Sampo district. The population of Kaleva is approximately 10,000 (2005). The most notable landmark is the Kaleva Church built between 1959 and 1966, and located in the Liisankallio district. Kaleva has many educational institutions, the folk high school Sampola and vocational school of economics, two high schools (lukio); Kalevan lukio and Sammon keskuslukio, and two comprehensive schools. It's also the home of the biggest swimming hall in Tampere. Most locals are students from Tampere University or pensioners. In 2007 Kaleva topped being the most poor part of the tow One of the notable residents of Kaleva is Sanna Marin, the former Prime Minister of Finland The prime minister of Finland (; ) is the leader of the Finnish Government. The prime minister and his or her cabinet exercise executive authority in the state. The prime minister is formally ran ...
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CWT Kaleva Travel
CWT Kaleva Travel is the largest travel management company in Finland. It is a division of CWT (company), CWT, owned by Carlson (company), Carlson, which acquired the company in February 2011. The company also operates in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Romania. Client companies were offered the possibility of self-booking, and the first product was Amadeus Finland Oyn Aergo, with which the travel booker or passenger could book flight tickets himself. Travel service points or satellite office that were on the premises of customer companies began to be transferred to service centers that were quickly becoming common. The innovation of the leisure travel agency service was personal, home-visiting. The origins of the company date to 1935. References External links

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