Ahtiala is the 13th district of the city of

Lahti Lahti (; ) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Päijät-Häme. It is located in the Finnish Lakeland. The population of Lahti is approximately , while the Lahti sub-region, sub-region has a population of approximately . It is the mo ...

, in the region of

Päijät-Häme Päijät-Häme (; ) is a Regions of Finland, region in Southern Finland south of the lake Päijänne. It borders the regions of Uusimaa, Kanta-Häme, Pirkanmaa, Central Finland, Southern Savonia, South Savo and Kymenlaakso. The biggest city in t ...

Finland Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, ...

. It borders the districts of Viuha and Seesta in the north, Kunnas in the east, Koiskala in the southeast, Myllypohja in the south and

Kytölä Kytölä is the 10th district of the city of Lahti, in the region of Päijät-Häme, Finland. It borders the districts of Pesäkallio in the north, Viuha in the northeast, Ahtiala in the east, Myllypohja in the southeast, Kiveriö and Kivimaa i ...

in the west. The population of the statistical district of Ahtiala was 5,379 in 2019. (under Tilastokanta → Lahti → Väestö → Väkiluku ja ikärakenne → Lahden väkiluku ja ikärakenne alueittain 1999-)

History

The area now known as Ahtiala has been populated since the

Iron Age The Iron Age () is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age. It has also been considered as the final age of the three-age division starting with prehistory (before recorded history) and progre ...

, as per

radiocarbon dating Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a method for Chronological dating, determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of carbon-14, radiocarbon, a radioactive Isotop ...

performed on the hill of Paakkolanmäki. Agriculture had been established by the 1400s, and midway through the 1500s, the village of Ahtiala consisted of 24 estates, being the largest in all of the parish of

Nastola Nastola is a former municipality of Finland. It was merged with the city of Lahti on 1 January 2016. In the province of Southern Finland, Nastola is part of the Päijät-Häme region. The municipality had a population of (30 June 2015) and cover ...

. It was entirely destroyed in a fire in 1740, after which some of the newly rebuilt estates were moved away from the former centre of the village. By a governmental decree made on 29 October 1954, Ahtiala was annexed to Lahti from Nastola on 1 January 1956.

References

Districts of Lahti {{SouthernFinland-geo-stub