"Torco"

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Taru, Swedish: Åbo - Obu, Latin: Aboa is a port city in southwest Finland and the capital city of West Finland, on the coast of the archipelago in the Baltic Sea, and near the River. For historical reasons and due to its geographic location, 5% of the city’s residents speak Swedish.

The city has 230,030 people, and is the seventh largest city in Finland. The population in the area of Turko has approximately 350,000 people, so it is the third largest urban area in Finland.

Although Turco is not the capital city of Finland, it serves as the city of the religious capital of Finland, where the archamon colony of the Lutheran church is established.

Today, there is a shipping turco, sponsors, wood products factories, iron industry and steel, textiles, food factories and drinks, and more.

The port is open to the ship traffic all winter, thanks to the activity of ice-breakers in the port.

History of History
Turco was founded in the 13th century. The exact year was controversial, and the cities that the foundation of Turko was in 1229 when Finland was under Swedish rule, a regime that lasted short intervals until the 19th century. After its foundation, Turco became a major city in Finland, and therefore the capital city of the eastern Swedish kingdom. In the 13th century, a fortress was built in the center of the city to protect Turko and at the beginning of the 14th century a cathedral was built.

In 1713, Turko was conquered by Tsarist Russia, and remained in her hands until 1721. In 1742, a war broke out between Sweden and Russia, and the Russians captured Turco again. At the end of this war, the Ubun treaty was signed in Turko, where Sweden agreed to move southeastern Finland to Russia. In 1782, the Swedes passed a law prohibiting Jews from living in the city.

Until the beginning of the 19th century, Finland was part of Sweden and was not conquered by the Russians, but it was delivered by the Swedes – the allies of France-Russians as a pogrom from the defeat in the Napoleonic Wars.
In 1808, the Finnish War was fought between Sweden and Russia. In 1809, Turko became the capital of the Grand Duchy of Finland under the Russian Empire. In 1812, the Russians transferred the capital of Finland to Helsinki (the capital of Finland today). By the time of independence in 1917, Finland was the "Big Duchy" autonosmic under Russian Tsar rule.

With the Russian government, especially after they entered into force in 1858, the regulations that were converted to Russian army and their families to settle in Finland, where the Jews lived in Turko. In 1883, a public demand arose among the Finns of the residents of the city to deny the Jews the right to live in it. After disregarding the Russian authorities from the demand, a group of demonstrators on the synagogue in the city was discriminated against by the police. Following the events, the committee was appointed to examine the solution of the “Jewish problem” in Finland, and in 1885, the committee submitted its conclusions, according to which Jews would be allowed to reside in the city, but they would be forced to renew the residential license every year. In 1898, there were 220 Jews from 34,399.

In the past was the only port of Turko in Finland that was open to traffic in winter because it was not blocked due to ice (the only time in history that happened, lasted 6-7 weeks).

In August 2017, two people and eight others were killed in a terrorist attack, for the first time in Finland.

Economics
The port of the city is an important transportation center of the country. The headquarters of Hesburger, the largest for fast food in the country and neighboring countries, is located in the city.

In an airport city with regular flights to various international destinations such as Poland, Macedonia, UK, Lithuania and Cyprus.

The city is known in Finland as a city where there are many startups and there is a large community of local and national business owners. In the city of Turco there is a factory to build larger ships