Lavia (Finland)
Lavia [ ˈlɑʋiɑ ] is a place and a former municipality in western Finland . It was located around 50 kilometers southwest of the port city of Pori , to which it has belonged since January 1, 2015, in the Satakunta landscape . Only Finnish is spoken in Lavia. The community had 1906 inhabitants on September 30, 2014.
The place belonged to the parish of Sastamala (today a part of Vammala ) since the Middle Ages , from 1639 to Mouhijärvi . In 1823 Lavia became independent as a parish, the political municipality has existed since 1868 and when it was dissolved, it included the villages of Aluskylä, Haunia, Kalliala, Lavia, Mustajoki, Myöntäjä, Niemenkylä, Peräkylä, Riiho and Riuttala in addition to the parish of Lavia. The area of the municipality was 357.80 km². The community center is located on the east bank of the 34 square kilometer long lake Karhijärvi , which runs through the community area from east to west.
The historic center of the church village still has a few wooden houses from the 19th century. The parish church of the village was built in 1823 by Charles Bassi , the adjacent parish around 1870. The cultural monuments of the community still include some Bronze Age burial mounds on the banks of Karhijärvi and the old stone bridges of Susikoski and Sampakoski.
While Lavia still had 5,400 inhabitants in 1950, the population in the structurally weak municipality has more than halved since then. Around a third of the workforce is employed in agriculture and forestry, around half in the service sector.
coat of arms
Description of the coat of arms : The coat of arms is divided into blue and silver.
