Editing Reboly (section)

== History ==
[[File:Repola-Porajarvi.png|thumb|right|300px|Reboly and Porosozero in 1920. The border between Finland and Soviet Union after 1940 is also shown.]]

Reboly was first mentioned in 1555; by 1679 it was the center of a district with 23 villages and 220 households. Its location on the Russo-Swedish border led to several cases in which the village was destroyed by Swedish detachments.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.muezersky.ru/area/istoriya_poselenii/reboli.html |website=www.muezersky.ru |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101106202406/http://www.muezersky.ru/area/istoriya_poselenii/reboli.html |archive-date=2010-11-06|title=Район - История населенных пунктов - Реболы - Администрация Муезерского муниципального района РК }} </ref> In the nineteenth century it became an often-visited site by Finnish nationalist scholars, such as [[Elias Lönnrot]], [[Matthias Castrén]] and [[D. E. D. Europaeus]].

After the [[Finland's declaration of independence]] the settlement and its district became an issue in Finnish-Russian relations when its predominantly Karelian population held a vote in August 1918 to join Finland.<ref>{{cite book| title = Karelija: entsiklopedija, tom 3 | location = [[Petrozavodsk]] | publisher = Petropress | year = 2011 | isbn = 978-5-8430-0127-8}}</ref> The Finnish Army moved to occupy Reboly in October. In the [[Treaty of Tartu (Russian–Finnish)|Treaty of Tartu]], 1920, Finland gave up its claims on Reboly and the neighbouring [[Porosozero]], and instead received [[Pechengsky District|Petsamo]] in the far north, which had  been annexed  by  Finnish  trooрs in 1918.

The anti-Soviet sentiment in Reboly was still strong, and in 1921, after the Red Army re-took Reboly and Porosozero, local pro-Finnish activists formed a short-lived resistance movement known as the [[Metsäsissit]] (literally ''Forest Guerillas'').<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://militera.lib.ru/h/hesin_ss/02.html|title = ВОЕННАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА --&#91; Военная история &#93;-- Хесин С. С. Разгром белофинской авантюры в Карелии в 1921–1922 гг}}</ref> Together with Finnish volunteers, they were instrumental in the [[East Karelian uprising|East Karelian uprising of 1921–1922]].

During the negotiations prior to the [[Winter War]], the Soviet government offered Reboly and Porosozero in exchange for a smaller area on the [[Karelian Isthmus]]. The offer was rejected.

Reboly was [[Finnish invasion of East Karelia (1941)|occupied from 1941 to 1944]] by the [[Finnish 14th Division (Continuation War)|Finnish 14th Division]] during the [[Continuation War]], until it was recaptured by Soviet forces.