The <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_of_the_Grand_Duchy_of_Finland" id="mwiQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Senate of the Grand Duchy of Finland">Senate of the Grand Duchy of Finland</a> issues a declaration establishing a city of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotka" id="mwig" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Kotka">Kotka</a> on the southern part islands from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kymi,_Finland" id="mwiw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Kymi, Finland">old Kymi parish</a>.<sup about="#mwt50" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-9"}}' id="cite_ref-9" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./April_16#cite_note-9" id="mwjA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 9;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwjQ">[9]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-9"><a class="external text" href="http://www.kotka.fi/default.asp?link=110.5" id="mwB3M" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">Kotkan synty ja kasvu</a> <a about="#mwt49" class="external text" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"Webarchive","href":"./Template:Webarchive"},"params":{"url":{"wt":"https://web.archive.org/web/20150520225231/http://www.kotka.fi/default.asp?link=110.5"},"date":{"wt":"2015-05-20"}},"i":0}}]}' href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150520225231/http://www.kotka.fi/default.asp?link=110.5" id="mwB3Q" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow" typeof="mw:Transclusion">Archived</a><span about="#mwt49" id="mwB3U"> 2015-05-20 at the </span><a about="#mwt49" href="./Wayback_Machine" id="mwB3Y" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> (in Finnish)</span>