Anjala was a town in

Southern Finland Southern Finland (, ) 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 On September 1, 1997 the Uusimaa Province, the Ky ...

, which merged in 1975 with Sippola to form

Anjalankoski Anjalankoski is a former town and List of former municipalities of Finland, municipality of Finland. It had 16 379 inhabitants in 2008. About 4/5 of the people live in the vicinity of the Kymi River. The most densely populated communities are My ...

, later further merged into

Kouvola Kouvola () is a city in Finland and the administrative capital of Kymenlaakso. It is located in the southeastern interior of the country. The population of Kouvola is approximately . It is the most populous municipality in Finland, and the 17th m ...

. Anjala is remembered historically in connection with the 18th-century event known as the

Anjala Conspiracy The Anjala conspiracy (, ) of 1788 was a scheme by disgruntled Swedish officers to end Gustav III's Russian War of 1788–1790. Declaring Finland an independent state was not a part of the original plot, but one of the conspirators Johan Ande ...

. 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 Pro is an abbreviation meaning "professional". Pro, PRO or variants thereof might also refer to: People * Miguel Pro (1891–1927), Mexican priest * Pro Hart (1928–2006), Australian painter * Mlungisi Mdluli (born 1980), South African reti ...

, of which he was a member.

People born in Anjala

Gustaf Philip Creutz Count Gustaf Philip Creutz (; 1 May 1731 in Anjala, Finland – 30 October 1785 in Stockholm), was a Swedish statesman, diplomat and poet. Biography Creutz was born in Finland and after concluding his studies at the Royal Academy of Turku he ...

(1731–1785) *

Otto Wrede Otto Wrede (2 September 1851 in Anjala – 15 February 1936) was a Finnish politician. He was a member of the Senate of Finland The Senate of Finland (; ) combined the functions of Cabinet (government), cabinet and supreme court in the G ...

(1851–1936) *

Kari Rajamäki Kari Juhani Rajamäki (born 15 October 1948, in Anjala) is a Finnish politician from the Social Democratic Party and a former Minister of the Interior. Rajamäki has been MP since 1983 and represents Southern Savonia. Before he became a ministe ...

(b. 1948) *

Jouko Jääskeläinen Jouko Jääskeläinen (born March 18, 1952) is a Finnish politician representing the Christian Democrats. Career Jääskeläinen was a Member of Parliament from 1991 to 2003 and from 2011 to 2015. During that time, he was Chairman of the Christi ...

(b. 1952)

References

Populated places disestablished in 1975 Former municipalities of Finland {{SouthernFinland-geo-stub