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Tahmela is a 
Tahmela is named after a
Tahmela is a district
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in Tampere
Tampere ( , , ; sv, Tammerfors, ) is a city in the Pirkanmaa region, located in the western part of Finland. Tampere is the most populous inland city in the Nordic countries. It has a population of 244,029; the urban area has a population o ...
, Finland
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. It is located between Ylä-Pispala
Pispala is a city area 2.5 km from the centre of Tampere, Finland. It is located on the northern slope of Pispalanharju, the highest esker in Finland.
Together with Pyynikki, Pispala is widely considered the most beautiful area of Tampere ...
and Pyynikki
Pyynikki ( sv, Pynike) is a district and a nature reserve in Tampere, Finland. It is located in the Pyynikinharju ridge, between the city center and the western district of Pispala. Pyynikinharju is the highest esker in the world, rising 85 meter ...
on the shores of Lake Pyhäjärvi. There is a Varala Sports College in Tahmela. There are rental agricultural plots on the shore of Tahmela, and Kurpitsaliike ry ("the Pumpkin Movement") was founded in 1998 to defend the continuation of land cultivation in Tahmela.
Tahmela has a large spring
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with very clear water until the 1960s, from which more than 600 households in the Pispala and Tahmela areas obtained their drinking water
Drinking water is water that is used in drink or food preparation; potable water is water that is safe to be used as drinking water. The amount of drinking water required to maintain good health varies, and depends on physical activity level, a ...
. The water was distributed by a cooperative that operated until 1961. In addition to the spring, the cultural center Hirvitalo is located in Tahmela.
Tahmela is named after a croft
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* Croft (land), a small area of land, often with a crofter's dwelling
* Crofting, small-scale food production
* Bleachfield, an open space used for the bleaching of fabric, also called a croft
Locations In the Uni ...
of the same name located in the area, built around 1870. The croft was located along the current Selininkatu street. Tahmela was transferred from the municipality of Northern Pirkkala to the city of Tampere at the beginning of 1937. Until then, it had been part of the densely populated municipal community of Pispala. The town plan
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of Tahmela was confirmed in 1945 at the same time as the town plan of Pispala. The poet Yrjö Jylhä lived in Tahmela in his youth and according to him one of the streets of the district has been named. The former name of the Tahmela Bypass (''Tahmelan viertotie'') in 1945–1978 was Valtakunnantie and then until 1996 the Tahmela Highway (''Tahmelan valtatie''). The names refer, on the one hand, to a group of houses known as the "Kingdom of Vuorenmaa", and, on the other hand, that the street was to be built as a highway
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, like the Paasikiventie north of Pispala, under the Pyynikki Ridge's tunnel
A tunnel is an underground passageway, dug through surrounding soil, earth or rock, and enclosed except for the entrance and exit, commonly at each end. A pipeline is not a tunnel, though some recent tunnels have used immersed tube cons ...
. Near Vallikatu are the remains of fortresses built by the Russian army
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The primary responsibilities of the Russian Ground Force ...
during the First World War
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
, which stretched from Tahmela to the Pispala Ridge. The name Hopankatu derives from a nearby ski jumping
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hill, built in 1908 and demolished in the late 1980s.Louhivaara 1999, p. 221. (in Finnish)
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