Takahuhti is a

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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 ...

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. It is located in eastern part of the city, close to Atala, Linnainmaa, Kissanmaa and

Messukylä Messukylä ( sv, Messukylä, also ) is a former municipality of Finland which was annexed by the city of Tampere in 1947. The medieval stone church (built c. 1540) in Messukylä is the oldest building in Tampere. During the Civil War (1918), Mess ...

. There are many prehistoric residences and finds in the area. Takahuhti was the largest village in Messukylä from the

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to the 20th century. The

Battle of Tampere The Battle of Tampere was a 1918 Finnish Civil War battle, fought in Tampere, Finland from 15 March to 6 April between the Whites and the Reds. It is the most famous and the heaviest of all the Finnish Civil War battles. Today it is particular ...

was also fought in Takahuhti during the 1918 civil war. The area is dominated by

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s and there is a school built in 1939. Historian and professor Unto Salo, has concluded from the ancient discoveries that the village of Takahuhti has been inhabited since the

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and that there were four houses in the village at that time. Four Iron Age cemeteries are known from the village's area of influence, the Kartanonsaari, Kukkoinkivi, Veijanmäki and Pappula cemeteries. According to the 1540

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, Takahuhti was the largest village in with 28 houses. Documents show the area as early as 1390, when man named Laurens Takahwktis was the area's observer. The center of the old village of Takahuhti was at the present Ristinarkku district. Takahuhti was annexed to the city of Tampere in connection with the Messukylä municipal association in 1947 and the first town plan was approved in 1952. Takahuhti is mainly a detached house area, but there is also a large apartment building area in the middle of the district. Takahuhti is bordered on the south by the Sampo Highway (Sammon valtatie), on the east by Linnankatu and the eastern boundary of the field to the north and Kirjavaisenkatu and Kourutaltankatu. To the north, the area is bordered by Teiskontie. In the west, the border of Takahuhti runs along Kuusimäenkatu between Kalmonkatu to Kuusemäenrinne and from there along the creek to Huhmaninkatu. The center of the Takahuhti district is Irjalanaukio, named after Irjala House. The land register of 1540 mentions the farmer Juho Irjaínen. The surname Irjainen comes from the Finnish given name Yrjänä, which was often written in the form of ''Yrian'' in 16th century sources. The name goes back to

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, who was a popular saint in the late Middle Ages.Louhivaara 1999, s. 193. (in Finnish)

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