Sammatti
Sammatti [ ˈsɑmːɑtːi ] is a former municipality in southern Finland . At the beginning of 2009 it was incorporated into the city of Lohja .
Sammatti is located in the west of the Uusimaa landscape around 65 kilometers northwest of the capital Helsinki . The former municipality of Sammatti is rural and has an area of 85.06 km² (13.05 km² of which is inland water). The only settlement center ( taajama ) of Sammatti is the eponymous church village , in which 872 people live (as of December 31, 2011). In addition to the church village, the parish also included the villages of Haarijärvi, Karstu, Kaukola, Kiikala, Leikkilä, Lohilampi, Luskala, Myllykylä and Niemenkylä. The last population of the municipality of Sammatti was 1,365.
The first written mention of Sammatti comes from the year 1406. In 1591 Sammatti became a separate parish. Sammatti is known as the birthplace of Elias Lönnrot , the author of the Finnish national epic Kalevala . Lönnrot was born in Sammatti in 1802. After his retirement he returned to Sammatti in 1862 and spent his old days there. Elias Lönnrot was very attached to his place of birth and donated a library and an elementary school to Sammatti. The house where he was born is today the most important attraction in Sammatti, along with the wooden church from 1755.
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- ↑ As of 2008, source: Maanmittauslaitos (Finnish land surveying office) (PDF; 247 kB)
- ↑ Tilastokeskus (Finnish Statistics Office): Taajamat väkiluvun ja väestöntiheyden mukaan December 31, 2011. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ As of December 31, 2008. Source: Väestörekisterikeskus (Finnish population register). ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 60 ° 19 ′ N , 23 ° 49 ′ E