Ahtiala is the 13th district of the city of
Lahti
Lahti (; sv, Lahtis) is a city and municipality in Finland. It is the capital of the region of Päijänne Tavastia (Päijät-Häme) and its growing region is one of the main economic hubs of Finland. Lahti is situated on a bay at the southern e ...
, in the region of
Päijät-Häme,
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...
. It borders the districts of
Viuha and
Seesta in the north,
Kunnas in the east,
Koiskala in the southeast,
Myllypohja in the south and
Kytölä in the west.
The population of the statistical district of Ahtiala was 5,379 in 2019.
[ (under Tilastokanta → Lahti → Väestö → Väkiluku ja ikärakenne → Lahden väkiluku ja ikärakenne alueittain 1999-)]
History
The area now known as Ahtiala has been populated since the
Iron Age
The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age division of the prehistory and protohistory of humanity. It was preceded by the Stone Age (Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic) and the Bronze Age (Chalcolithic). The concept has been mostly appl ...
, as per
radiocarbon dating
Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon.
The method was dev ...
performed on the hill of Paakkolanmäki. Agriculture had been established by the 1400s, and midway through the 1500s, the village of Ahtiala consisted of 24 estates, being the largest in all of the parish of
Nastola. It was entirely destroyed in a fire in 1740, after which some of the newly rebuilt estates were moved away from the former centre of the village.
By a governmental decree made on 29 October 1954, Ahtiala was annexed to Lahti from Nastola on 1 January 1956.
References
Districts of Lahti
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