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Isokyrö
Isokyrö (; sv, Storkyro) is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the South Ostrobothnia region, from Vaasa. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . In the name of the municipality, "''iso''" means big; "''kyrö''", on the other hand, is a Tavastian dialect and means a quarry, rocky or rugged terrain for hiding. The municipality is unilingually Finnish. According to Traficom, Isokyrö is the most motorized municipality in Finland with 718 cars per thousand inhabitants. Geography There are of cultivated fields. Isonkyrö's neighboring municipalities are Ilmajoki, Kauhava, Laihia, Seinäjoki, Vaasa and Vörå. Localities: * Tuurala Notable people * Matti Haapoja (1845–1895), serial killer * Kustaa Killinen (1849–1922), schoolteacher, writer and politician * Matti Pohto (1817–1857), bookbinder and book collector * Eino S. Repo (1919–2002), journalist and politician * Ilmari Turja ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isokyrö Railway Station
The Isokyrö railway station ( fi, Isonkyrön rautatieasema, sv, Storkyro järnvägsstation) is a closed station located in the municipality of Isokyrö, Finland, in the village of Orismala. It was located along the Seinäjoki–Vaasa railway, and its neighboring stations at the time of closing were Ylistaro in the east and Tervajoki in the west. History Isokyrö was opened under the name of Orismala at the same time as the rest of the Seinäjoki–Vaasa line, on 29 September 1883. It was established in the crossing between the railway and the road from the Isokyrö Church to the Orisberg Manor, being named after the latter. Being founded as a ''pysäkki'', it was promoted to a class V station in 1888. A small village formed around the station, and as the former Isokyrö railway station became an unmanned halt under the name of Ventälä, Orismala was granted the name of the municipality instead. The new Isokyrö in turn became unmanned in 1989. Isokyrö remained as a pass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Napue
The Battle of Napue (, , ) was fought on 19 February 1714 ( O.S.) / 2 March 1714 ( N.S.) at the villages of Napue and Laurola in the Isokyrö parish of the Swedish Empire (modern Finland) between the Swedish Empire and the Tsardom of Russia. It was the final land battle of the Finnish campaign in the Great Northern War. The Swedish detachment, consisting almost entirely of Finnish troops, were defeated by the numerically superior Russian force. As a result, all of Finland fell under Russian military occupation for the rest of the War; a seven-year period of hardship known in Finland as the Great Wrath. The Kyrö Distillery Company named its Napue rye gin after the battle in 2014. Prelude By 1703 Russian forces had reached the inner parts of the Gulf of Finland, and founded the city of Saint Petersburg. Since the Swedish main army was engaged in Poland and later in Russia, Sweden was hard pressed to defend its Baltic territories. After the battle of Poltava, Russia took all of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tervajoki Railway Station
The Tervajoki railway station ( fi, Tervajoen rautatieasema, sv, Tervajoki järnvägsstation) is located in the municipality of Isokyrö, Finland, in the urban area of Tervajoki (specifically, the village of Kylkkälä). It is located along the Seinäjoki–Vaasa railway, and its neighboring stations are Seinäjoki in the east and Vaasa in the west. Services Tervajoki is served by all long-distance trains (InterCity and Pendolino) that use the Seinäjoki–Vaasa line; the routes include Helsinki–Vaasa and Seinäjoki–Vaasa. It is the only intermediate station on the line, after the closings of Laihia, Ylistaro and Isokyrö Isokyrö (; sv, Storkyro) is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the South Ostrobothnia region, from Vaasa. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . In the name of th ... on 20 June 2016. All trains arriving to and departing from the station use track 1. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilmajoki
Ilmajoki (; sv, Ilmola) is a municipality of Finland. Ilmajoki is a town and municipality situated in Finland's South Ostrobothnia region, founded in 1865. Ilmajoki has a population of 12,165 (28. February 2017)and covers an area of 579.79 km2 (223.86 sq mi), of which 2.89 km2 (1.12 sq mi) is water. The population density is 20.2 inhabitants per square kilometre (52.3 per sq mi). Ilmajoki borders the municipalities of Isokyrö, Kurikka, Laihia and Seinäjoki. The municipality is unilingually Finnish. The population of Ilmajoki has increased by 700 over the past year (vuosi), with one in five inhabitants being under 14 years of age. Ilmajoki's tax rate is the lowest in all of South Ostrobothnia at 20.24% (average in South Ostrobothnia is 21.23%). Ilmajoki's production of renewable electricity exceeds it consumption of electricity. Each June, thousands of people gather for opera, organized annually by Ilmajoki Music Festival. Plenty of sightseeing opportunities exist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matti Haapoja
Matti Haapoja (September 16, 1845 in Isokyrö – January 8, 1895 in Turku) was a Finnish serial killer who was covered extensively by the press at the time of the murders. The exact number of his victims is unknown. He was convicted of two murders and was scheduled for a trial for his third murder when he committed suicide in his cell. He can be linked to seven other identified murder cases, but most of those happened during his exile in Siberia and are poorly documented, so his involvement is not certain. It is claimed that he confessed to 18 murders, but there are no details about this supposed confession, and the figure should be regarded as unreliable. Some sources estimate his total number of murders as 22–25. He also non-fatally wounded at least six men in knife fights. Early life Matti Haapoja was born in 1845, in Isokyrö, Grand duchy of Finland. Haapoja started his criminal career as a brawler, graduating quickly to stealing horses. His first known murder happened on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilmari Turja
Ilmari Turja (28 October 1901 – 6 January 1998) was a Finnish writer, best known as a journalist and playwright, with a career spanning nearly eight decades from the 1920s to the 1990s. Early life and education Kaarlo Ilmari Turja was born to a farming family in Isokyrö in western central Finland, to Jaakko and Evelina Turja. However, when he was four, the Turja family moved to the nearby city of Vaasa, where his father set up in timber trade. After graduating from secondary school in 1922 and completing his military service, Turja went on to study law at the University of Helsinki, obtaining his law degree in 1929 and qualifying as ''Varatuomari'' (Master of Laws with court training, cf. barrister) in 1932. Journalistic career Turja is perhaps best known as the Editor-in-Chief of the weekly news and political commentary magazine ''Suomen Kuvalehti'', which he led from 1936 to 1951. In addition to that, he also held the same post at two other weekly magazines, ''Kansan Kuva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seinäjoki
Seinäjoki (; "Wall River"; la, Wegelia, formerly sv, Östermyra) is a city located in South Ostrobothnia, Finland; east of Vaasa, north of Tampere, west of Jyväskylä and southwest of Oulu. Seinäjoki originated around the Östermyra bruk iron and gunpowder factories founded in 1798. Seinäjoki became a municipality in 1868, market town in 1931 and town in 1960. In 2005, the municipality of Peräseinäjoki was merged into Seinäjoki, and in the beginning of 2009, the neighbouring municipalities of Nurmo and Ylistaro were consolidated with Seinäjoki. Seinäjoki is one of the fastest growing regional centers in Finland. The city hall, city library, Lakeuden Risti Church and other public buildings were designed by Alvar Aalto. Seinäjoki was historically called ' in Swedish. Today this name, which never was official, is very seldom used even among the Swedish speakers. Seinäjoki Airport is located in the neighbouring municipality of Ilmajoki, south of the Seinäjoki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ostrobothnia (region)
Ostrobothnia ( sv, Österbotten; fi, Pohjanmaa) is a region in western Finland. It borders the regions of Central Ostrobothnia, South Ostrobothnia, and Satakunta. It is one of four regions considered modern-day Ostrobothnia, hence also referred to as Coastal Ostrobothnia to avoid confusion. Ostrobothnia is one of two Finnish regions with a Swedish-speaking majority (the other being the constitutionally monolingual province of Åland); Swedish-speakers make up 51.2% of the total population. The region contains thirteen bilingual municipalities and one that is exclusively Finnish-speaking. The capital of Vaasa is predominantly inhabited by Finnish speakers, whereas smaller towns and rural areas are generally dominated by the Swedish language. The three municipalities with the largest number of Swedish speakers are Korsholm, Jakobstad and Pedersöre. Geographically, Ostrobothnia has little topographical relief, because it is mostly former seafloor brought to surface by pos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marjo Yli-Kiikka
Marjo Yli-Kiikka (born 16 June 1978) is a Finnish sports shooter. She competed at the 2004, 2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing ... and 2012 Summer Olympics. References External links * 1978 births Living people People from Isokyrö Finnish female sport shooters Olympic shooters of Finland Shooters at the 2004 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2008 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2012 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Ostrobothnia (region) {{Finland-sportshooting-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matti Pohto
Matti Pohto, born 7 March 1817 in Isokyrö, in Finland, died 30 July 1857 in Vyborg, Vyborg, formerly part of Finland, was a Finland, Finnish bookbinder and book collector. Pohto was an uneducated man of peasant stock who is known for his collection that saved a significantly large number of pre-19th century Finnish literature. Life Pohto was born into a poor peasants' family in the Western Finnish Ostrobothnia (region), Ostrobothnia region. At the age of eight, Pohto worked as a herder, and also earned his living by begging. Later he worked as a bookbinder, and started collecting books in 1838 at the age of 21. Pohto acquired most of his books from manor houses and vicarages throughout Finland. In 1847 he got to know Fredrik Wilhelm Pipping, the librarian of the Royal Academy of Turku. The library had been destroyed in the 1827 Great Fire of Turku. With Pohto's assistance, Pipping succeeded in collecting almost all Finnish literature printed thus far and re-established the libra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kustaa Killinen
Kustaa Killinen (7 September 1849, Isokyrö – 5 January 1922) was a Finnish schoolteacher, writer and politician. He belonged to the Young Finnish Party. Killinen served as a Member of the Diet of Finland from 1897 to 1906 and as a Member of the Parliament of Finland The Parliament of Finland ( ; ) is the unicameral and supreme legislature of Finland, founded on 9 May 1906. In accordance with the Constitution of Finland, sovereignty belongs to the people, and that power is vested in the Parliament. Th ... from 1913 to 1916. References 1849 births 1922 deaths People from Isokyrö People from Vaasa Province (Grand Duchy of Finland) Young Finnish Party politicians Members of the Diet of Finland Members of the Parliament of Finland (1913–16) {{Finland-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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