Björköby is a village and a former municipality now part of

Korsholm Korsholm (; fi, Mustasaari) is a municipality of Finland. The town of Vaasa was founded in Korsholm parish in 1606 and today the municipality completely surrounds the city. It is a coastal, mostly rural municipality, consisting of a rural landscap ...

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 is the chief settlement on the island of Björkö. The harbour of the village is called Svedjehamn. Björköby was an independent

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

until 1973.

History

Björköby was first mentioned in 1543 as ''Börckön''. It was a part of the Mussar (later

) parish until 1872, when

Replot Replot ( fi, Raippaluoto) is an island in the Kvarken ("The Throat"), the narrowest part of the Gulf of Bothnia in the northern part of the Baltic sea. It has about 2,100 inhabitants, almost only Swedish-speaking. The size is about , one of the lar ...

was separated from it, though Replot had already become a municipality in 1868. The local name for the settlement is simply ''Björkö'', "birch island", but it was changed to ''Björköby'' (''by'' meaning "village") in 1932, when it became its own municipality. This was done to distinguish it from other Björkös, since ''Björkö'' is a fairly common place name. Björköby never formed a separate parish. Together with Replot,

Kvevlax Kvevlax ( fi, Koivulahti) is a church village in the municipality of Korsholm, Finland. It is located approximately north of the city of Vaasa. Kvevlax became an independent parish in 1857. Until 1 January 1973 it was an independent municipalit ...

and Solf, Björköby was consolidated with Korsholm in 1973. Svedjehamn panorama sett från utsiktstornet Saltkaret

References

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