European legal, administrative, and social systems replaced tribal governance.
Secured permanent Swedish political and military control over central Finland. The Third Swedish Crusade (1293) finnish crusades
Vyborg became the eastern sword-point of the Swedish kingdom. The campaign of 1293, explicitly called a crusade by papal bulls issued to justify it, was a brutal frontier war. The Swedish army fought Novgorodians and their Karelian allies, baptizing captured Karelians by force. The conflict was not resolved until the Treaty of Nöteborg (1323), which formally divided Finland and Karelia between the two powers. The border drawn then would separate Western and Eastern Christianity—and later, Sweden and Russia—for over six centuries. Sweden and Russia—for over six centuries.