Tammerfors, the chief manufacturing city of Finland, 50 miles NW. of Tavastehuus by rail. It is situated on a rapid which connects two lakes, and affords motive-power to cotton, linen, paper, and woollen mills. Pop. (1890) 20,483.
Tammerfors
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 58
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