(ESO) is one of the 15 student nations at the

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, Finnish-speaking, established in 1905 and it has

Uusimaa Uusimaa (; , ; both lit. 'new land') is a region of Finland. It borders the regions of Southwest Finland, Tavastia Proper (Kanta-Häme), Päijänne Tavastia (Päijät-Häme), and Kymenlaakso. Finland's capital and largest city, Helsinki, alo ...

and Eastern Uusimaa as recruitment regions. Before 1905, Nylands Nation (NN) gathered both Finnish- and Swedish-speaking university students from

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, but seceded from NN in 1905 to form a similar, but Finnish-speaking nation.

Premises

ESO has its premises in downtown Helsinki, at Uusi Ylioppilastalo, at

Mannerheimintie Mannerheimintie () (previously known as ''Henrikinkatu'', ''Läntinen ja Itäinen Henrikinkatu'', ''Läntinen ja Itäinen Heikinkatu'', ''Turuntie'', ''Läntinen viertotie'', ''Heikinkatu''), colloquially known as Mansku, named after the Finni ...

5, alongside four other Nations, Savolainen osakunta, Varsinaissuomalainen osakunta, Åbo Nation and Östra Finlands Nation.

Friendship nations

The Nation has friendship contracts with several student nations, student associations and student societies at universities in

Finland Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, ...

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and

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Finland

* Nylands Nation (University of Helsinki) * Sähköinsinöörikilta (Aalto University)

Estonia

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Sweden

* Malmö nation (University of Lund) * Stockholms nation (University of Uppsala) * Värmlands nation (University of Uppsala)

Denmark

* Studenterforeningen (University of Copenhagen)

Norway

* Det Norske Studentersamfund (University of Oslo)

Germany

* Der Allgemeine Studierenden Ausschuss der Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz (University of Mainz)

References

External links

* 1905 establishments in Finland Student nations in Greater Helsinki {{Finland-university-stub