Tammela is a district in
Tampere
Tampere ( , , ; sv, Tammerfors, ) is a city
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,
Finland
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, located east of the city centre. Tammela was born since the 1870s as a working-class neighbourhood, today it is especially popular among the students of the nearby
Tampere University. As of 2014, the population of Tammela was 5,646.
Tammela was almost completely destroyed in the 1918
Finnish Civil War
The Finnish Civil War; . Other designations: Brethren War, Citizen War, Class War, Freedom War, Red Rebellion and Revolution, . According to 1,005 interviews done by the newspaper '' Aamulehti'', the most popular names were as follows: Civil ...
Battle of Tampere and also severely damaged in the air raids of
World War II
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. Some wooden houses from the early 1900s have remained in the so-called Puu-Tammela area in the eastern side of the district. Today Tammela is known of the
Tammelantori Market Square and its ''
mustamakkara''
kiosk
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s,
and the
Tammela Football Stadium.
References
External links
Official Homepage of the Tammela residents' association
Keskusta (Tampere)
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