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Answer for the clue "Region of N Europe ", 7 letters:
lapland

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Province of Lapland was a province of Finland from 1938 to 2009. It was established in 1938, when it was separated from the Province of Oulu . After the Second World War, the Petsamo municipality (former province) and part of the Salla municipality ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, from Lapp , the Swedish name for this Finnic people (their name for themselves was Sabme ), which probably originally was an insulting coinage (compare Middle High German lappe "simpleton"). In English traditionally the home of witches and wizards ...

Usage examples of lapland.

He was the only other floatplane pilot working in Lapland that summer.

Amaroq watched a large cloud of Lapland longspurs wheel up into the sky, then alight in the grasses.

Her black eyes were alert as several Lapland longspurs darted overhead.

Find out if there's more than reindeer and a few Lapps infancy dress in Finnish Lapland these days I' As if he heard the voice now, insistent in his ear, he woke himself from the narcosis of his rest and the coffee.

The ski-ing of the previous night, after dropping from the helicopter which had come skimming in under the radar net into Finnish Lapland, had taken its toll -not of his strength, but of his youth, it seemed.