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During the month of August the Swedes indulge in Kraftskivor. What is Kraftskivor?
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The Estonian Swedes, Estonia-Swedes, or Coastal Swedes (, "Estonia Swedes", colloquially "aibofolke", "Island People", , i.e. "Coastal Swedes" or "eestirootslased") are a Swedish-speaking linguistic minority traditionally residing in the coastal areas and islands of what is now western and northern Estonia. The beginning of the continuous settlement of Estonian Swedes in these areas (known as "Aiboland") dates back to the 13th and 14th centuries, when their Swedish-speaking ancestors arrived in Estonia from what is now Sweden and Finland. Almost all of Estonia's Swedish-speaking minority fled to Sweden during World War II, and only the descendants of a few individuals who opted to stay are permanently resident in Estonia today. 
The Battle of Poznań was a battle that took place on August 9, 1704 in Poznań, Poland during the Great Northern War. The Swedes won the battle. 
The presence of Swedish speaking permanent residents in what is now Estonia (Estonian Swedes) was first documented in the 14th century, and possibly dates back to the Viking Age. There were an estimated 12,000 Swedes resident in Estonia in 1563, mainly distributed along the coastal regions and islands. Estonia was under Swedish rule 1558–1710, after which the territory was ceded to Russia in the 1721 Treaty of Nystad. In 1781, 1,300 Estonian Swedes of the island of Hiiumaa ("Dagö") were forced to move to New Russia (today Ukraine) by Catherine II of Russia, where they formed "Gammalsvenskby" (Old Swedish Village). According to the 1934 census there were 7,641 Estonian Swedes (Swedish speaking, 0.7% of the population in Estonia), making Swedes the third largest national minority in Estonia, after Russians and Germans. During World War II almost the entire community of Estonian Swedes fled to Sweden. Today there are, at most, a few hundred Estonian Swedes living in Estonia and a few hundred in Ukraine, with the estimates varying widely depending on who identifies, or can be identified, as a Swede. Many of them are living in northwestern mainland Estonia and on adjacent islands and on the island of Ruhnu ("Runö") in the Gulf of Riga. In a nationalist context, the ethnic Swedes living outside Sweden are sometimes called 'East-Swedes' (in Swedish: "östsvenskar"), to distinguish them from the ethnic Swedes living in Sweden proper, called "rikssvenskar" or "västsvenskar" ('Western-Swedes'), reflecting irredentist sentiments.  
Prostitution in Yemen is illegal, but many sex tourists from other gulf states indulge in what are known as "tourist marriages". The punishment for prostitution is 3 years of imprisonment.  
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