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Cajanaburg
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English
Etymology
From en sv Kajaneborg, from sv Kajana Kainuu + sv borg -burg: town, probably from en ru каяний and ru каянский and cognate with Finnish fi Kainuu and Old Norse non kvenir. Equivalent to en Cajania burg.
Proper noun
en historical en Kajaani a town in Finland.
1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 7:
CAJANABURG, the capital of the province of Cajania, or eaſt Bothnia in Sweden, ſituated on the north-eaſt part of the lake Cajania, about three hundred miles north-eaſt of Abo...
Related terms
en Cajania