Aitolahti (; now forms the Tampere subdivision under the name Aito) is a former municipality in

Pirkanmaa Pirkanmaa (; ; ), also known as ''Tampere Region'' in government documents, is a region of Finland. It borders the regions of Satakunta, South Ostrobothnia, Central Finland, Päijät-Häme, Kanta-Häme and Southwest Finland. Most of the wate ...

region,

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. It was consolidated in 1966 with

Tampere Tampere is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Pirkanmaa. It is located in the Finnish Lakeland. The population of Tampere is approximately , while the metropolitan area has a population of approximately . It is the most populous mu ...

, and at the same time Tampere got new districts: Sorila, Nurmi and Aitoniemi. Until 1947, the neighboring municipalities of Aitolahti included

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 ...

, which was consolidated with the city of Tampere. Highway 9 ( E63) between Tampere and

Jyväskylä Jyväskylä () is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Central Finland. It is located in the Finnish Lakeland. The population of Jyväskylä is approximately , while the Jyväskylä sub-region, sub-region has a population of approximately ...

and the regional road 338 between Tampere and Ruovesi pass through Aitolahti. The old Aitolahti municipal center was Sorila. The densest population is in the southern parts of the region, in the districts of Olkahinen and Nurmi. The highest terrain in Aitolahti is Aitovuori, located near the border of Kangasala, extending 179 meters above sea level and more than 80 meters above Lake Näsijärvi.Hannu Tarmio, Pentti Papunen & Kalevi Korpela: ''Suomenmaa 1: maantieteellis-yhteiskunnallinen tieto- ja hakuteos''. Porvoo-Helsinki: WSOY, 1967. (in Finnish) When the Aitolahti became independent parish after leaving Messukylä, there were only about 600 inhabitants, and the population grew very slowly for a long time, until growth accelerated in the 1950s. At the end of the 19th century, the Finnish geologist J. J. Sederholm discovered oval-shaped depressions in the shore cliffs and rocks of Lake Näsijärvi, which he called ''Corycium enigmaticum'', "enigmatic

carbon Carbon () is a chemical element; it has chemical symbol, symbol C and atomic number 6. It is nonmetallic and tetravalence, tetravalent—meaning that its atoms are able to form up to four covalent bonds due to its valence shell exhibiting 4 ...

bags". These are remnants of rudimentary microbial activity about two billion years ago and have been found in the rest of the world only in

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and

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. The site was designated a

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in 1962. These 2 to 30-centimeter-long "carbon bags" are also found on the opposite shore of Lake Näsijärvi on the

Ylöjärvi Ylöjärvi () is a town in Finland, located in the Pirkanmaa region. It lies to the west of the regional capital, Tampere. The population of Ylöjärvi is approximately , while the metropolitan area has a population of approximately . It is the m ...

side. These carbon bags also gave their subject in 1965, in the last year of the municipality's independence, the

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of the municipality of Aitolahti, drawn by Gustaf von Numers. In the 1980s, pork soup and barley groat

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with

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were named traditional dishes of Aitolahti parish.Jaakko Kolmonen: ''Kotomaamme ruoka-aitta: Suomen, Karjalan ja Petsamon pitäjäruoat'', p. 77. Helsinki: Patakolmonen Ky, 1988. (in Finnish)

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