Anjala was a town in

Southern Finland Southern Finland ( fi, Etelä-Suomen lääni, sv, Södra Finlands län) was a province of Finland from 1997 to 2009. It bordered the provinces of Western Finland and Eastern Finland. It also bordered the Gulf of Finland and Russia. History O ...

, which merged in 1975 with Sippola to form

Anjalankoski Anjalankoski is a former town and municipality of Finland. It had 16 379 inhabitants in 2008. About 4/5 of the people live in the vicinity of the Kymi River. The most densely populated communities are Myllykoski and Inkeroinen. In addition, there ...

, later further merged into

Kouvola Kouvola () is a cities of Finland, city and Municipalities of Finland, municipality in southeastern Finland. It is located along the Kymijoki, Kymijoki River in the Regions of Finland, region of Kymenlaakso, kilometers east of Lahti, west of Lapp ...

. Anjala is remembered historically in connection with the 18th-century event known as the

Anjala Conspiracy The Anjala conspiracy ( sv, Anjalaförbundet, fi, Anjalan liitto) of 1788 was a scheme by disgruntled Swedish officers to end Gustav III's Russian War of 1788–1790. Declaring Finland an independent state was not a part of the original plot, b ...

. The Regina School, one of the country's first public schools, was located here, as was its library, which was the first in the country. They were founded by with the help of the Christian educational society

Pro Fide et Christianismo (full name , ) is a Christian association within the Church of Sweden. The organization was an "informal or semi-official national school board" prior to the founding of Sweden's public education system and made a significant impact on Sweden's ...

, of which he was a member.

People born in Anjala

Gustaf Philip Creutz Count Gustaf Philip Creutz (; 1 May 1731 in Anjala, Finland – 30 October 1785 in Stockholm), was a Swedish statesman, diplomat and poet. Biography Creutz was born in Finland and after concluding his studies at the Royal Academy of Turku he re ...

(1731–1785) *

Otto Wrede Otto Wrede (2 September 1851 in Anjala – 15 February 1936) was a Finnish politician. He was a member of the Senate of Finland The Senate of Finland ( fi, Suomen senaatti, sv, Senaten för Finland) combined the functions of cabinet and s ...

(1851–1936) *

Kari Rajamäki Kari Juhani Rajamäki (born 15 October 1948, in Anjala) is a Finnish politician from the Social Democratic Party and a former Minister of the Interior. Rajamäki has been MP since 1983 and represents Southern Savonia. Before he became a minister ...

(b. 1948) *

Jouko Jääskeläinen Jouko Jääskeläinen (born March 18, 1952) is a Finnish politician representing the Christian Democrats __NOTOC__ Christian democratic parties are political parties that seek to apply Christian principles to public policy. The underlying Chri ...

(b. 1952)

References

Populated places disestablished in 1975 Former municipalities of Finland {{SouthernFinland-geo-stub