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Tammela, Finland
Tammela is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the Tavastia Proper region. The municipality has a population of () and it covers an area of of which is inland water (). The population density is (). The first mention of a village named Tammela was in documents from 1423. Neighbouring municipalities are Forssa, Hämeenlinna, Jokioinen, Karkkila, Lohja, Loppi, Somero and Urjala. The municipality is unilingually Finnish. Two national parks, Torronsuo National Park and Liesjärvi National Park, are located in Tammela municipality. Tammela is also the name of a district in the city of Tampere. Villages Hevoniemi, Hykkilä, Häiviä, Kallio, Kankainen, Kaukjärvi, Kaukola, Kuuslammi, Kytö, Letku, Liesjärvi, Lunkaa, Mustiala, Myllykylä, Ojainen, Pappila, Patamo, Pikonkorpi, Porras, Riihivalkama, Saari, Sukula, Susikas, Taljala, Talpia, Tammela, Teuro, Torajärvi, Torro. People born in Tammela *Robert Wilhelm Lagerborg (1796 –1849) *Toivo Alavirta (1890 – 1940) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regions Of Finland
Finland is divided into 19 regions ( fi, maakunta; sv, landskap)., smn, eennâmkodde, and sms, mäddkåʹdd. The regions are governed by regional councils that serve as forums of cooperation for the Municipalities of Finland, municipalities of each region. The councils are composed of delegates from the municipal councils. The main tasks of regional councils are regional planning, development of enterprises, and education. Between 2004 and 2012 the regional council of Kainuu was elected via popular elections as part of an experimental regional administration. In 2022 new Wellbeing services counties of Finland, wellbeing services counties were established as part of a health care and social services reform. The wellbeing services counties follow the regional borders, and are governed by directly elected county councils. Åland One region, Åland, has a special status and has a much higher degree of autonomy than the others, with its own Parliament of Åland, Parliament and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tammela, Tampere
Tammela is a district in Tampere, Finland, located east of the city centre. Tammela was born since the 1870s as a working-class neighbourhood, today it is especially popular among the students of the nearby Tampere University. As of 2014, the population of Tammela was 5,646. Tammela was almost completely destroyed in the 1918 Finnish Civil War Battle of Tampere and also severely damaged in the air raids of World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing .... Some wooden houses from the early 1900s have remained in the so-called Puu-Tammela area in the eastern side of the district. Today Tammela is known of the Tammelantori Market Square and its '' mustamakkara'' kiosks, and the Tammela Football Stadium. References External links Official Homepage of the Tammela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elias Seppänen
Elias Seppänen (born 31 October 2003) is a Finnish racing driver currently competing in the ADAC GT Masters with MANN-FILTER Team Landgraf. He previously competed in the Formula Regional European Championship. Career Karting Born in Tammela, Seppänen started his karting career in 2014. His best result was winning the Finnish Junior Championship in the Raket class in 2016. Lower formulae In 2019 Seppänen made his single-seater racing debut in the F4 South East Asia Championship. The Finnish driver won eleven races and with 617 points he finished second in the standings to Irish driver Lucca Allen. He also made two guest appearances in the SMP F4 Championship and competed in the Formula Academy Finland, where he finished third in the championship. The next year the Finn moved over to race in the ADAC F4 Championship with US Racing. He achieved a race victory at the Lausitzring, and with nine further podiums Seppänen finished third in the standings, only behind Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santeri Laine
Shantadurga (Devanagari:शांतादुर्गा, ) is the most popular form of the Hindu goddess Durga revered in Goa, India, as well some parts of Karnataka. She is a form of the ancient Mother goddess known as Santeri. She is worshipped in almost all villages of Goa as an ant hill. This is seen in some temples dedicated to Shantadurga. Origins The second chapter of the Sanskrit ', ', is a part of Sahyādrikhaṇḍa which is the chapter of ''Skanda Purana'' gives detail about this.Shastri, P. (1995) ''Introduction to the Puranas'', New Delhi: Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, pp.118-20 Only the title of the chapter mentions the goddess Shantadurga and no where else is this epithet of the goddess mentioned. This section refers to a certain sage , a resident of Nagavya (modern Nagoa). The goddess appeared before Shantamuni and hence she's known as Shantadurga. Durga is portrayed in her ferocious nature in many of the places,yet the adjective ''Shanta'' (peaceful) is fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antti Laaksonen
Antti Akseli Laaksonen (born October 3, 1973) is a Finnish former professional ice hockey left winger who last played for the Lukko of the SM-Liiga. Antti had a seven-year NHL career, mostly as a third line wing and penalty killer for the Boston Bruins, Minnesota Wild and Colorado Avalanche. Playing career Laaksonen left Finland for North America in 1993 as a junior pro from the SM-Liiga. He enrolled at the University of Denver where he played four seasons for the Pioneers. Laaksonen was selected 191st overall by the Boston Bruins in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft. In 1997–98, Laaksonen made his professional debut in North America, playing with both the Charlotte Checkers of the ECHL and the Bruins affiliate, the Providence Bruins. Laaksonen made his NHL debut with the Bruins at the start of the 1998–99 season, playing in 11 games before he was sent down to Providence where he helped the Bruins capture the Calder Cup. Unable to become a regular with the Bruins by the end of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eino Kujanpää
Eino Nikolai Kujanpää (16 January 1904 - 11 June 1980; original surname ''Syrjänen'') was a Finnish construction worker and politician. He was born in Tammela. He became a communist as a young man and in the late 1920s he went to the Soviet Union, where he studied at the International Lenin School and at the Communist University of the National Minorities of the West. He returned to Finland in 1936, was soon arrested and spent the years 1937 to 1940 and 1941 to 1944 in prison for political reasons. He was freed in 1944, when the Communist Party of Finland (SKP) was legalised as a result of the Moscow Armistice of 19 September 1944. He was then elected to the Parliament of Finland, where he represented the Finnish People's Democratic League Finnish People's Democratic League ( fi, Suomen Kansan Demokraattinen Liitto, SKDL; sv, Demokratiska Förbundet för Finlands Folk, DFFF) was a Finnish political organisation with the aim of uniting those left of the Finnish Social Democrat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rabbe Enckell
Rabbe Arnfinn Enckell (3 March 1903 – 17 June 1974) was a Finnish writer and poet. Enckell is regarded as one of the stalwarts of the Swedo-Finnish poetic revival that began in the 1920s. Enckell was born in Tammela, Tavastia Proper. He studied art in France and Italy. In 1923 he brought out his first poetry collection, entitled ''Dikter''. It was a collection of impressionistic nature poems. The collection and its sequel, Flöjtblåsarlycka (''The Flutist’s Happiness''), which was published in 1925, were contained Enckell's vivid description of the changes in nature. Enckell was a modernist. For a year in 1928-29 he worked for the avant-garde journal ''Quosego''. He then wrote a couple of semi-autobiographical novels, which included ''Ljusdunkel'' (1930). He returned to poetry with the publication of ''The Cistern of Spring'' (1931). He followed it with ''The Sounding Board'' (1935). The modernist streak in his poetry prompted comparisons with T.S. Eliot. Enckell bro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toivo Alavirta
Toivo Villiam Alavirta (27 June 1890 - 23 June 1940; original surname ''Ahlström''; name as Soviet citizen ''Тойво Казимирович Алавирта'') was a Finland, Finnish journalist and politician. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1916 to 1918. He died in prison in 1937 after being convicted of political crimes during the Great Purge. Early years Alavirta was born in Tammela, Finland, Tammela. Alavirta's parents were factory worker Kasimir Ahlström and Henriika Flink. He went to public and business school, then worked from 1906 to 1912 as an accountant at the Forssa factories of Oy Finlayson Ab and until 1918 as a regional editor for Hämeen Voima in Forssa. Alavirta joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1906 and was elected to parliament in 1917 from the southern constituency of Häme county. In the Soviet Union In 1918, during the Finnish Civil War, he worked in the administration of the Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic. Whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Wilhelm Lagerborg
Robert Wilhelm Lagerborg (1796 – 1849) was Governor of Oulu Province, Finland, from 1833 to his death in 1849. Lagerborg was born in Tammela. The Lagerborg family name (registered at Suomen Ritarihuone as #105) originates in Värmland, Sweden, and has been known since the 16th century. Lagerborg died in Oulu, and has a monument in the Oulu Cemetery, with inscriptions in Finnish and Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by .... Sources * Suomen Ritarihuone 1796 births 1849 deaths People from Tammela, Finland Swedish-speaking Finns Finnish people of Swedish descent 19th-century Finnish politicians 19th-century Finnish nobility {{finland-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porras, Tammela
Porras is a village in the municipality of Tammela, Finland. It lies on the Häme Ox Road and has a population of almost 400 inhabitants. An active village, it has about 30 active enterprises and nine unions, a school, cafeteria, and post office services. ''Porras'' is an old Finnish word for "bridge" or " duckboards"; the name comes from a bridge on the Häme Ox Road by the village. Albert Edelfelt made paintwork ''Veräjällä'' in Tammela in 1889. History The village was first mentioned around 1470. Porras was the main village of an administrative division (''hallintopitäjä'') from the early 1500s to the 1700s, when the division was split into Tammela and Somero. The division was further subdivided into the fourths (''neljänneskunnat'') of Pitkäjärvi, Hirsjärvi, Tammela and Jokioinen Jokioinen ( sv, Jockis) is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the Tavastia Proper region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
