Tarvasjoki

Former municipality in Southwest Finland, Finland

Coat of arms

Location of Tarvasjoki in Finland

Coordinates: 60°35′N 022°44′E / 60.583°N 22.733°E / 60.583; 22.733CountryFinlandRegionSouthwest FinlandSub-regionLoimaa sub-regionCharter1869Merged2015Government

• Municipal managerOili PaavolaArea

^[1]

• Total102.41 km² (39.54 sq mi) • Land101.96 km² (39.37 sq mi) • Water0.45 km² (0.17 sq mi)Population

(2014-11-30)^[2]

• Total1,959Time zoneUTC+2 (EET) • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)ClimateDfcWebsitewww.tarvasjoki.fi

Tarvasjoki (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈtɑrʋɑsˌjoki]) is a former municipality in the region of Southwest Finland, in Finland. It was merged with the municipality of Lieto on 1 January 2015.

The municipality had a population of 1,959 (30 November 2014)^[2] and it covered an area of 102.41 square kilometres (39.54 sq mi) of which 0.45 square kilometres (0.17 sq mi) was water.^[1] The population density was 19.21 inhabitants per square kilometre (49.8/sq mi).

The municipality was unilingually Finnish.

Name

The name part joki means "river". The Tarvas part of the name originally referred to wild animals that were hunted, for example aurochs (wild cattle) and roe deer.^[3]

Villages

Eura, Horrinen, Hungerla, Jauhola, Juva, Kallela, Karhula, Killala, Kirkonkylä, Kättylä, Liedonperä, Mäentaka, Satopää, Seppälä, Suitsula, Suurila, Takamaa, Tiensuu, Tuomarla, Tuorila, Tyllilä, Yrjönkylä.

Famous people from Tarvasjoki

Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt, (1757 in Juva, Tarvasjoki – 1814) a Finnish-Swedish-Russian courtier and diplomat.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b "Area by municipality as of 1 January 2011" (PDF) (in Finnish and Swedish). Land Survey of Finland. Retrieved 9 March 2011.
^ ^a ^b "VÄESTÖTIETOJÄRJESTELMÄ REKISTERITILANNE 30.11.2014" (in Finnish and Swedish). Population Register Center of Finland. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
^ "Tarvasjoki - Turvallinen kotikunta". Archived from the original on 2011-05-18. Retrieved 2010-06-27.
^ Bain, Robert Nisbet (1911). "Armfelt, Gustaf Mauritz" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 2 (11th ed.). p. 575.