
Anjala was a town in
Southern Finland
Southern Finland ( fi, Etelä-Suomen lääni, sv, Södra Finlands län) was a province of Finland from 1997 to 2009. It bordered the provinces of Western Finland and Eastern Finland. It also bordered the Gulf of Finland and Russia.
History
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, which merged in 1975 with Sippola to form
Anjalankoski, later further merged into
Kouvola
Kouvola () is a city and municipality in southeastern Finland. It is located along the Kymijoki River in the region of Kymenlaakso, kilometers east of Lahti, west of Lappeenranta and northeast of the capital, Helsinki. With Kotka, Kouvola is ...
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Anjala is remembered historically in connection with the 18th-century event known as the
Anjala Conspiracy.
The Regina School, one of the country's first public schools, was located here, as was its library, which was the first in the country. They were founded by with the help of the Christian educational society
Pro Fide et Christianismo, of which he was a member.
People born in Anjala
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Gustaf Philip Creutz (1731–1785)
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Otto Wrede (1851–1936)
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Kari Rajamäki (b. 1948)
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Jouko Jääskeläinen (b. 1952)
References
Populated places disestablished in 1975
Former municipalities of Finland
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