Suomusjärvi () is a former municipality of

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. It was consolidated with

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on January 1, 2009. It is located in the

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and is part of the

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. The municipality had a population of 1,321 (December 31, 2004) and covered an area of 176.53 km² of which 16.38 km² is water. The

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was 8.25 inhabitants per km². Its administrative center is

Kitula Kitula (; literally translated the "place of linger") is a village in Suomusjärvi, Salo, Finland, Salo, in Southwest Finland, along Finnish regional road 110, regional road 110 (Old Turku Road). It is the administrative center of the former munic ...

. The municipality was unilingually Finnish.

History

Suomusjärvi was first mentioned in 1540, when it was a part of the parish of Kisko. It got its own chapel community in 1678. The chapel community was also known as ''Laidike'' as the church of the community was located in the village of Laidike. A new church was built in the village of Suomusjärvi in 1703, but the parish was still called Laidike in 1722. Suomusjärvi became an independent parish in 1898. Suomusjärvi was consolidated with Salo in 2009.

References

External links

*http://www.suomusjarvi.fi/ – Official website Former municipalities of Finland Salo, Finland Populated places disestablished in 2009 2009 disestablishments in Finland {{WesternFinland-geo-stub