Turku and Pori Province (, , ) was a
province
A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions out ...
of independent
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 Bot ...
from 1917 to 1997. The province was however founded as a county in 1634 when today's Finland was an integrated part of
Sweden
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. It is named after the cities of
Turku
Turku ( ; ; sv, Åbo, ) is a city and former capital on the southwest coast of Finland at the mouth of the Aura River, in the region of Finland Proper (''Varsinais-Suomi'') and the former Turku and Pori Province (''Turun ja Porin lääni''; ...
() and
Pori
)
, website www.pori.fi
Pori (; sv, Björneborg ) is a city and municipality on the west coast of Finland. The city is located some from the Gulf of Bothnia, on the estuary of the Kokemäki River, west of Tampere, north of Turku and north- ...
().
Ã…land
Ã…land ( fi, Ahvenanmaa: ; ; ) is an autonomous and demilitarised region of Finland since 1920 by a decision of the League of Nations. It is the smallest region of Finland by area and population, with a size of 1,580 km2, and a populat ...
was split into a separate province in 1918. In 1997 Turku and Pori Province was merged with the
northern part of the
Häme Province, the provinces of
Vaasa
Vaasa (; sv, Vasa, , Sweden ), in the years 1855–1917 as Nikolainkaupunki ( sv, Nikolajstad; literally meaning "city of Nicholas), and
Central Finland into the new
Western Finland Province.
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Municipalities in 1997 (cities in bold)
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Alastaro
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Askainen
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Aura
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* Aura (paranormal), a field of luminous multicolored radiation around a person or object
* Aura (symptom), a symptom experienced before a migraine or seizure
Aura may also refer to:
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Dragsfjärd
Dragsfjärd is a former municipality of Finland. On 1 January 2009 it was consolidated with Kimito and Västanfjärd to form the new municipality of Kimitoön.
It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Southwest Finla ...
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Eura
Eura is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Satakunta region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is .
The mun ...
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Eurajoki
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Halikko
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Harjavalta
Harjavalta () is a town and municipality in Finland. It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Satakunta region, southeast of Pori. The town has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The p ...
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Honkajoki
Honkajoki (''Hongonjoki'' until 1952) is a former municipality of Finland. It was merged with the town of Kankaanpää on 1 January 2021.
It was located in the province of Western Finland and was part of the Satakunta region
In geography, regio ...
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Houtskär
Houtskär (; fi, Houtskari ) is an island group and former municipality of Finland. On 1 January 2009, it was consolidated with Iniö, Korpo, Nagu and Pargas to form the municipality of Pargas (briefly named Väståboland).
It is located in ...
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Huittinen
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Iniö
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Jämijärvi
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Kaarina
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Kankaanpää
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Karinainen
Karinainen is a former municipality of Finland. It was merged to Pöytyä in the beginning of 2005.
It was located in the province of Western Finland and was part of the Southwest Finland region. The municipality had a population of 2,457 (2004 ...
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Karvia
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Kimito
Kimito (; fi, Kemiö ) is a former municipality of Finland. On January 1, 2009, it was consolidated with Dragsfjärd and Västanfjärd to form the new municipality of Kimitoön. Prior to the consolidation, it was one of the four municipalities ...
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Kiikala
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Kiikoinen
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Kisko
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Kiukainen
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Kodisjoki
Kodisjoki is a village and a former municipality of Finland. At the time of the municipality's disestablishment, Kodisjoki was located in the province of Western Finland, now it is in the Satakunta region. Kodisjoki became part of the city of ...
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Kokemäki
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Korpo
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Koski Tl
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Kullaa
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Kustavi
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Kuusjoki
Kuusjoki () is a former municipality of Finland. It was consolidated with Salo Salo or Salò may refer to:
Places Finland
*Salo, Finland, a town in Western Finland
** Salo sub-region, a subdivision of Finland Proper and one of the Sub-regio ...
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Köyliö
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Laitila
Laitila (; sv, Letala) is a town and a municipality of Finland. It is located in the Southwest Finland region, and it is from Laitila to Turku. The municipality has a population of
() and covers an area of of
which
is water. The populat ...
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Lappi
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Lavia
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Lemu
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Lieto
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Loimaa
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Loimaan kunta
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Luvia
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Marttila
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Masku
Masku () is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Southwest Finland region. The municipality, which is located about just north of Turku, has a population of
() and covers an area of ...
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Mellilä
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Merikarvia
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Merimasku
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Mietoinen
Mietoinen (; sv, Mietois) is a former
A former is an object, such as a template, gauge or cutting die, which is used to form something such as a boat's hull. Typically, a former gives shape to a structure that may have complex curvature.
A f ...
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Muurla
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Mynämäki
Mynämäki (; sv, Virmo) is a municipality of Finland located in the Southwest Finland region. Neighbouring municipalities are Aura, Eura, Laitila, Masku, Nousiainen, Pöytyä, Rusko, Taivassalo, Turku and Vehmaa.
The municipality ha ...
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Naantali
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Nakkila
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Nagu
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Noormarkku
Noormarkku ( sv, Norrmark) is a former municipality of Finland.
It is located in the province of Western Finland and was part of the Satakunta region. The municipality had a population of 6,158 (31 December 2009) and covered an area of of which ...
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Nousiainen
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Oripää
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Pargas
Pargas ( fi, Parainen) is a town and municipality of Finland, in the Archipelago Sea, the biggest archipelago in the world by the number of islands, 50,000. The big limestone mine in Pargas is the base of the main industry and except for the cent ...
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Paimio
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Perniö
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Pertteli
Pertteli (); sv, S:t Bertils) is a former municipality of Finland. It was consolidated with Salo on January 1, 2009.
It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Southwest Finland region. The municipality had a population ...
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Piikkiö
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Pomarkku
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Pori
)
, website www.pori.fi
Pori (; sv, Björneborg ) is a city and municipality on the west coast of Finland. The city is located some from the Gulf of Bothnia, on the estuary of the Kokemäki River, west of Tampere, north of Turku and north- ...
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Punkalaidun
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Pyhäranta
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Pöytyä
Pöytyä (; sv, Pöytyä, also ) is a municipality of Finland located in the Southwest Finland region.
The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . The municipality is unil ...
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Raisio
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Rauma
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Rusko
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Rymättylä
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Salo
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Sauvo
Sauvo (; sv, Sagu) is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the Southwest Finland region. The municipality had a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is .
Like many waterside areas near major p ...
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Siikainen
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Somero
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Suodenniemi
Suodenniemi is a List of former municipalities of Finland, former municipality of southwestern Finland.
Suodenniemi was first consolidated into Vammala in 2007. On 1 January 2009, Vammala itself was consolidated with Äetsä and Mouhijärvi to f ...
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Suomusjärvi
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Säkylä
Säkylä is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the Satakunta region, southeast of the city of Pori. The municipality has a population of () and the municipality covers an area of of which is inland water (). The population density is ...
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Särkisalo
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Taivassalo
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Tarvasjoki
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Turku
Turku ( ; ; sv, Åbo, ) is a city and former capital on the southwest coast of Finland at the mouth of the Aura River, in the region of Finland Proper (''Varsinais-Suomi'') and the former Turku and Pori Province (''Turun ja Porin lääni''; ...
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Ulvila
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Uusikaupunki
Uusikaupunki (; sv, Nystad, ) is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the Southwest Finland region, northwest of Turku and south of Pori. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is inland wate ...
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Vahto
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Vammala
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Vampula
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Vehmaa
Vehmaa (; sv, Vemo) is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Southwest Finland region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The populati ...
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Velkua
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Västanfjärd
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Yläne
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Äetsä
Äetsä is a former municipality of southwestern Finland. The municipality was founded on 1981 when municipalities of Keikyä and Kiikka were consolidated to a single municipality.
On 1 January 2009, it was consolidated with the municipaliti ...
Former municipalities (disestablished before 1997)
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Ahlainen
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Angelniemi
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Hinnerjoki
Hinnerjoki is a village and a former municipality in the Satakunta province, Finland. It was consolidated with Eura in 1970. The village of Hinnerjoki is listed as a Cultural environment of national significance by the Finnish National Board of An ...
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Hitis
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Honkilahti
Honkilahti ( sv, Honkilahti, also ) is a village and a former municipality in Finland, part of Eura since 1970.
History
The commune of Honkilahti was founded in 1904 when it was separated from Eura. Honkilaht was merged back with Eura in 1970. ...
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Kakskerta
Kakskerta is an island in the Archipelago Sea, south of the city of Turku, Finland. It is a former municipality and a current district of Turku. Like other islands in the Archipelago Sea, it has many summer residences. ''Lake Kakskerta'' is locat ...
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Kalanti
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Karjala
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Karkku
Karkku is a locality and former municipality in Pirkanmaa region, Finland. It was consolidated in 1973 with Vammala, which in turn, was consolidated with Äetsä and Mouhijärvi into a town of Sastamala in 2009. Karkku is located by the lake Rau ...
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Karuna
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Kauvatsa
Kauvatsa is a former municipality in the Satakunta province, Finland. It was annexed with the municipality of Kokemäki
Kokemäki (; sv, Kumo) is a town and municipality in the Satakunta Region of Finland. The town has a population of () a ...
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Keikyä
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Kiikka
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Kuusisto
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Lokalahti
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Maaria
Maaria (''S:t Marie'' in Swedish) is a former municipality of Finland in what is now the northern part of the city of Turku. The area has been inhabited since the Iron Age, and it became an important village in the 15th century with the construc ...
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Metsämaa
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Naantalin mlk
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Paattinen
Paattinen () is a village in south-west Finland and a district of the city of Turku. It is located to the north of the city, and is the largest of the city's districts by area. It borders the neighbouring municipalities of Vahto, Nousiainen, Mynà ...
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Paraisten mlk
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Porin mlk
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Pyhämaa
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Rauman mlk
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Suoniemi Suoniemi may refer to:
* Suoniemi, Finland, village and former municipality
* Kalevi Suoniemi
Kalevi Ensio Suoniemi (14 July 1931 – 17 June 2010) was a Finnish gymnast. He competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in all artistic gymnastics event ...
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Tyrvää
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Uskela
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Uudenkaupungin mlk
Governors
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Bror Rålamb 1634–1637
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Melkior von Falkenberg 1637–1641
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Melkior von Falkenberg 1641–1642 (County of Åbo)
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Knut Lillienhöök 1642–1646 (County of Åbo)
*No governor 1641–1646 (County of Björneborg)
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Knut Lillienhöök 1647–1648
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Lorentz Creutz (elder) 1649–1655
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Erik von der Linde 1655–1666
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Ernst Johan Creutz (elder) 1666
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Harald Oxe 1666–1682
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Lorenz Creutz (younger) 1682–1698
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Jakob Bure 1698–1706
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Justus von Palmberg 1706–1714
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Johan Stiernstedt 1711–1713 (acting) and 1714–1722
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Otto Reinhold Yxkull 1722–1746
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Lars Johan Ehrenmalm 1744–1747 (acting) and 1747–1749
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Johan Georg Lillienberg 1749–1757
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Jeremias Wallén 1757–1768
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Kristoffer Johan Rappe 1769–1776
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Fredrik Ulrik von Rosen 1776–1781
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Nils Fredenskiöld 1780 (acting)
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Magnus Wilhelm Armfelt 1782–1790
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Joakim von Glan 1790–1791 (acting)
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Ernst Gustaf von Willebrand 1790–1806
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Olof Wibelius
Olov (or Olof) is a Swedish form of Olav/ Olaf, meaning "ancestor's descendant". A common short form of the name is ''Olle''. The name may refer to:
* Per-Olov Ahrén (1926–2004), Swedish clergyman, bishop of Lund from 1980 to 1992
*Per-Olov B ...
1801–1802 (acting)
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Knut von Troil 1806–1816
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Otto Herman Lode
Otto is a masculine German given name and a surname. It originates as an Old High German short form (variants ''Audo'', ''Odo'', ''Udo'') of Germanic names beginning in ''aud-'', an element meaning "wealth, prosperity".
The name is recorded fro ...
1811–1813 (acting)
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Carl Erik Mannerheim 1816–1826
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Lars Gabriel von Haartman 1820–1822 (acting)
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Eric Wallenius 1822–1826 (acting) and 1826–1828
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Adolf Broberg 1828–1831
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Lars Gabriel von Haartman 1831–1842
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Gabriel Anton Cronstedt 1840–1842 (acting) and 1842–1856
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Samuel Werner von Troil 1856 (acting)
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Carl Fabian Langenskiöld
Carl Fabian Langenskiöld, also known as Carl Fabian Theodor Langenskiöld (17 November 1810 – 29 June 1863) was a Finnish politician and a member of the Senate of Finland from 1857 to 1863.
Langenskiöld is called the father of the finnish ...
1856–1858
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Selim Mohamed Ekbom 1857–1858 (acting)
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Johan Axel Cedercreutz 1858–1863 (acting) and 1863
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Carl Magnus Creutz 1864–1866 (acting) and 1866–1889
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Axel Gustaf Samuel von Troil 1889–1891
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Wilhelm Theodor von Kraemer 1891–1903
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Theodor Hjalmar Lang 1903–1905
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Knut Gustaf Nikolai Borgenström 1905–1911
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Eliel Ilmari Wuorinen 1911–1917
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Albert Alexander von Hellens 1917 (acting)
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Kaarlo Collan 1917–1922
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Ilmari Helenius
Ilmari is a Finnish male given name. It is a short form of Ilmarinen, a mythological smith in the Kalevala. Notable people with the name include:
* Ilmari Aalto (1891–1934), Finnish painter
* Ilmari Auer (1879–1965), Finnish politician
*Ilmar ...
1922–1932
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Wilho Kyttä 1932–1949
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Erkki Härmä 1949–1957
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Esko Kulovaara 1957–1971
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Sylvi Siltanen 1972–1977
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Paavo Aitio 1977–1985
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Pirkko Työläjärvi
Pirkko Työläjärvi (born 8 September 1938, Jämsä) is a Finnish politician from the Social Democratic Party.
She was member of the parliament from 1972 to 1985, and minister in several cabinets from 1975 to 1982.
After the 1979 Finnish parli ...
1985–1997
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