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Pertunmaa
Pertunmaa () is a municipality of Finland located in the Southern Savonia region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . Neighbour municipalities are Hartola, Heinola, Hirvensalmi, Mäntyharju and Joutsa. Pertunmaa became an independent municipality in 1926 when it was separated from Mäntyharju. Hartola's old wooden church was moved to Pertunmaa and it was inaugurated in 1927. The language of the municipality is Finnish. Culture It's said that Pertunmaa's culture is mixed with two regions: Southern Savonia and Päijänne Tavastia. Also, ''Itä-Häme'' (literally " East Tavastia") newspaper is also distributed in Pertunmaa. According to a common legend in the locality, Pertunmaa is named after a man called Perttu, who once ruled the whole of Pertunmaa (literally the "land of Perttu") alone. The coat of arms of the municipality, the explanation of which is “a golden flame in a red field with a black ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pertunmaa (village)
The Pertunmaa church village (also known as Pertunmaa; fi, Pertunmaan kirkonkylä) is the largest village in the Pertunmaa, Pertunmaa municipality in Southern Savonia. Together with the southern Kuortti, Kuortti village, it is one of the main settlement centers of the municipality. It has a population of 439. It is located between two large lakes, Pienivesi and Peruvesi. The most significant buildings in the village include the Pertunmaa Church, the wooden cross church built in 1929. The village also has, among other things, a Municipal hall, municipal office, Osuuspankki bank, a fire department, a health center, a school (grades 0–9) and two grocery stores, K-Market and Sale (chain store), Sale. Traditional ''Pertun päivät'' ("Perttu Days") summer events are organized in the village every year. References External links Kirkonkylä - Official Site of the Pertunmaa Municipality (in Finnish) Pertunmaa Villages in Finland {{EasternFinland-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Savonia
South Savo (or Southern Savonia; fi, Etelä-Savo; sv, Södra Savolax) is a region in the south-east of Finland. It borders the regions of North Savo, North Karelia, South Karelia, Kymenlaakso, Päijät-Häme, and Central Finland. The total area of South Savo is 18,768.33 km2 (7,246.5 sq mi), with a population of 153,738 (2011). South Savo is located in the heart of the Finnish lake district, and contains Lake Saimaa, the largest lake in Finland. The three major towns in the region are Mikkeli, Savonlinna and Pieksämäki. Historical provinces ''For history, geography and culture see: Savonia'' Municipalities South Savo includes 12 municipalities listed below (towns marked in bold). * Enonkoski **Population: * Hirvensalmi **Population: * Juva **Population: * Kangasniemi **Population: * Mikkeli (''S:t Michel'') **Population: * Mäntyharju **Population: * Pertunmaa **Population: * Pieksämäki **Population: * Puumala **Population: * Rantasalmi **Population: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mäntyharju
Mäntyharju (, literally 'Pine Ridge') is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the Southern Savonia region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The coastline is almost . The population density is 6.2 inhabitants per km². Neighbouring municipalities: Heinola, Hirvensalmi, Kouvola, Mikkeli, Pertunmaa and Savitaipale. The summer houses or cottages located in the countryside are part of the culture of Finland where most Finnish families spend their summer holidays. Mäntyharju is the municipality which has the fifth most summer houses in Finland. Some of the reasons for Mäntyharju's popularity involve its many pure lakes and a relatively short distance to the Finnish capital Helsinki of approximately 200 kilometres by car. The municipality also has a direct, high-speed train connection to the capital area. Because of the many summer houses, the population of Mäntyharju more than triples during the most popular summer holiday t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hartola (Finland)
Hartola ( sv, Gustav Adolfs) is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the Itä-Häme, Päijänne Tavastia region. The municipality has a population of (), which make it the smallest municipality in Päijänne Tavastia in terms of population. It covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . Neighouring municipalities are Heinola, Joutsa, Luhanka, Pertunmaa and Sysmä. The municipality is unilingually Finnish. The municipality is also known as "Gustav Adolfs" in Swedish. Hartola is home to the Itä-Hämeen Museo, the regional museum for seven municipalities. Since 1987, the town has billed itself as a sovereign royal parish based upon a 1784 proclamation by King Gustav III of Sweden creating a new parish on the eastern border of his kingdom in honor of his son, Gustav Adolf. At every first Saturday in September, there is a fair at Hartola. The event is biggest in Finland at its genre. The municipality is also known as the writer Maila Talvio's place ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hirvensalmi
Hirvensalmi is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the Southern Savonia region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . Neighbour municipalities: Joutsa, Kangasniemi, Mikkeli, Mäntyharju and Pertunmaa. Hirvensalmi is often said to be an island municipality. Most people live on the mainland, but living on an island is not unheard of. Most islands, though, are only inhabited during the summer holidays, when holidaymakers come mainly from Southern Finland and double the population of Hirvensalmi. In the north lake Puula marks the border of Hirvensalmi and Kangasniemi, and in the west lake Suontee separates it from Joutsa. The municipality is unilingual Finnish Finnish may refer to: * Something or someone from, or related to Finland * Culture of Finland * Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland * Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people * Finnish cuisine See a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinola
Heinola () is a town and a municipality of inhabitants () located in the eastern part of the Päijänne Tavastia region, Finland, near the borders of the South Savonia region and the Kymenlaakso region. It is the third largest municipality in the region in terms of population after Lahti and Hollola. The neighbour municipalities of Heinola are Asikkala, Hartola, Iitti, Kouvola, Mäntyharju, Nastola, Pertunmaa and Sysmä. In the coat of arms of Heinola, the Tavastia's provincial animal, the Eurasian lynx, crosses a fess resembling an arch bridge; it refers to the Jyränkö Bridge (''Jyrängönsilta'') from 1932, which crosses ''Jyrängönvirta'', the smaller part of the Kymi River. The coat of arms was designed by Gustaf von Numers and approved by the Heinola Town Council at its meeting on 23 September 1958. The coat of arms was approved for use by the Ministry of the Interior on 11 November of the same year. History Heinola used to be a remote village of then larger Hollola ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joutsa
Joutsa is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Central Finland region. Jyväskylä is located about north of the Joutsa municipality. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . The municipality is unilingually Finnish. The municipality of Leivonmäki was consolidated with Joutsa on January 1, 2008. Sahti culture in Joutsa is known by ''Joutsan sahti''. Geography Neighbouring municipalities: Hartola, Hirvensalmi, Jyväskylä, Kangasniemi, Luhanka, Pertunmaa and Toivakka. There are all together 192 lakes in Joutsa. The biggest lakes are Puula, Suontee and Jääsjärvi. Leivonmäki National Park is located in Joutsa. At area is swamps, beaches and forest in esker. Villages * Havumäki * Kivisuo * Kälä * Laitjärvi * Lapinkylä * Leivonmäki * Marjotaipale * Pärnämäki * Ruokoranta * Ruorasmäki * Rutalahti * Savenaho * Selänpohja * Taka-Ikola * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Itä-Häme
Itä-Häme () is the eastern part of the historical province Tavastia in Finland. It is in Päijänne Tavastia, Southern Savonia and Central Finland. Leivonmäki National Park is in Itä-Häme. Itä-Häme is also known by manufacturing of sahti. Municipalities * Hartola * Heinola (town) * Joutsa * Luhanka * Pertunmaa * Sysmä Disestablished * Heinolan maalaiskunta (merged into Heinola in 1997) * Leivonmäki (merged into Joutsa in 2008) Dialects Despite being a part of Tavastia, only the dialect of Heinola is a Tavastian dialect. The dialects of the other municipalities are Savonian dialects of the Päijänne subgroup, a group of Savonian dialects with Tavastian influence; for example, they lack the type of consonant gemination found in most other Savonian dialects (e.g. the partitive form of ''kala'' "fish" is ''kalaa/kaloa'', not ''kallaa/kalloa/kalloo''). Most of the area adopted a Savonian dialect due to the Cudgel War The Cudgel War (also Club War, fi, Nuij ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Itä-Häme (newspaper)
''Itä-Häme'' is a morning tabloid newspaper published in Heinola in the Itä-Häme, Finland. History and profile ''Itä-Häme'' was established 1927 in Sysmä. The newspaper is headquartered in Lahti. It is part of the ESS company. Its chief editor is Jari Niemi. The paper is published six times per week. Its format was broadsheet until 2005 when the paper began to be published in tabloid format A tabloid is a newspaper with a compact page size smaller than broadsheet. There is no standard size for this newspaper format. Etymology The word ''tabloid'' comes from the name given by the London-based pharmaceutical company Burroughs We .... It is the first Finnish newspaper which institutionalized the post of civic reporter in 2004. The circulation of ''Itä-Häme'' was 13,900 copies. Facta 2001 part 7, page 1, ''finnish'' It was 12,000 copies in 2006. The paper had a circulation of 10,719 copies in 2010 and 10,427 copies in 2011. References External linksOfficial site ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Language
Language is a structured system of communication. The structure of a language is its grammar and the free components are its vocabulary. Languages are the primary means by which humans communicate, and may be conveyed through a variety of methods, including spoken, sign, and written language. Many languages, including the most widely-spoken ones, have writing systems that enable sounds or signs to be recorded for later reactivation. Human language is highly variable between cultures and across time. Human languages have the properties of productivity and displacement, and rely on social convention and learning. Estimates of the number of human languages in the world vary between and . Precise estimates depend on an arbitrary distinction (dichotomy) established between languages and dialects. Natural languages are spoken, signed, or both; however, any language can be encoded into secondary media using auditory, visual, or tactile stimuli – for example, writing, whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finnish Language
Finnish ( endonym: or ) is a Uralic language of the Finnic branch, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland. Finnish is one of the two official languages of Finland (the other being Swedish). In Sweden, both Finnish and Meänkieli (which has significant mutual intelligibility with Finnish) are official minority languages. The Kven language, which like Meänkieli is mutually intelligible with Finnish, is spoken in the Norwegian county Troms og Finnmark by a minority group of Finnish descent. Finnish is typologically agglutinative and uses almost exclusively suffixal affixation. Nouns, adjectives, pronouns, numerals and verbs are inflected depending on their role in the sentence. Sentences are normally formed with subject–verb–object word order, although the extensive use of inflection allows them to be ordered differently. Word order variations are often reserved for differences in information structure. Finnish orth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
