Aakkula is a smaller

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, located about four kilometers from its city center. Aakkula is bordered on the west by Vuohenoja, on the east by

Viiala Viiala is a former municipality of Finland. On 1 January 2007, it was consolidated with Toijala to form the town of Akaa. Viiala is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Pirkanmaa region. The municipality had a populatio ...

, on the south by

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and on the north by

Messukylä Messukylä (, also ) is a former municipality of Finland which was annexed by the city of Tampere in 1947. The medieval stone church (built c. 1540) in Messukylä is the oldest building in Tampere. During the Civil War (1918), Messukylä was the ...

. In 2012, Aakkula had 465 inhabitants. The Aakkula house, which belonged to the village of Messukylä, was already mentioned in the 1540

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. The house is located along the current Aakkulankatu street and may have been named after its owner in 1566–1618 by Aukusti Erkinpoja. The Aakkula house became the

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of the Messukylä chaplain in 1678. In 1928, the

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of the Messukylä parish decided to sell the lands of Aakkula as

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s and

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estates. The first estates were sold from the area in 1931 and the last in 1939. At the beginning of the Messukylä municipal association at the beginning of 1947, the area moved to the city of Tampere and its

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was approved in the same year.Maija Louhivaara: ''Tampereen kadunnimet'', p. 150. Tampereen museoiden julkaisuja 51, 1999. Tampere. ISBN 951-609-105-9. (in Finnish)

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External links

Aakkula, Tampere
at Fonecta.fi (in Finnish) Districts of Tampere {{WesternFinland-geo-stub