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14-454: Neighbouring municipalities are Kannonkoski , Karstula , Multia , Soini , Uurainen , Ähtäri and Äänekoski . The municipality is unilingually Finnish . The neighboring municipality of Pylkönmäki was merged with the Saarijärvi municipality on 1 January 2009. There are all together 241 lakes in Saarijärvi. The biggest lakes are Pyhäjärvi , Summanen and Lake Saarijärvi . Saarijärvi

28-419: A town in 1986. Pylkönmäki rejoined Saarijärvi in 2009. Saarijärvi is twinned with: Saarijärvi is served by OnniBus.com route Helsinki—Jyväskylä—Kokkola. [REDACTED] Media related to Saarijärvi at Wikimedia Commons This Western Finland location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Kannonkoski Kannonkoski is a Finnish municipality located in

42-451: A village in Pälkäne. By 1558 the area had got permanent Savonian settlers, who established the village of Kantojärvi (transcribed as Kandoijerffuij ). Rautalampi , including this area, became a separate parish in 1561. Viitasaari was separated from Rautalampi in 1635. At the time, it included all of the villages that would later become parts of the municipality of Kannonkoski. Kivijärvi

56-510: Is a town and a municipality of Finland . It is located in the province of Oulu and is part of the Northern Ostrobothnia region , 87 kilometres (54 mi) northeast of the city of Oulu and 130 kilometres (81 mi) southwest of the town of Kuusamo . The town has a population of 7,327 (31 October 2024) and covers an area of 5,867.23 square kilometres (2,265.35 sq mi) of which 228.67 km (88.29 sq mi)

70-588: Is the home of Bonden Paavo ( Finnish : Saarijärven Paavo ) in the poem by Johan Ludvig Runeberg . Juho Hyytiäinen, the great grandfather of Pamela Anderson , left the village in 1908 emigrating to the American continent. Saarijärvi has existed since the mid-16th century, when it was a part of the Rautalampi parish. Saarijärvi acquired its first church in 1628, which was also when the Laukaa parish, including Saarijärvi,

84-438: Is unilingually Finnish . Kannonkoski as a settlement name is very new, originally only referring to the rapids which connect the lake Kannonjärvi to the lake Kivijärvi. The toponym kannonn Maa [ sic ] was mentioned in 1552, referring to hunting grounds of the people of Sysmä in this area. The people of Pälkäne also had hunting grounds around the rapids and the name Kannonkoski may be derived from Kantokylä ,

98-510: Is water. The population density is 1.3 inhabitants per square kilometre (3.4/sq mi). In terms of area in square kilometres, Pudasjärvi is the second largest township in Finland (as of 2006, Rovaniemi is the largest) and one of the largest in the world. It's also one of the most sparsely inhabited. Pudasjärvi is famed for its nature, and is the home of the southernmost fell area in Finland, Syöte . The oldest dated rock formations within

112-495: The Central Finland region . The municipality has a population of 1,188 (31 October 2024) and covers an area of 549.88 square kilometres (212.31 sq mi) of which 104.87 km (40.49 sq mi), or 19%, is water. The population density is 2.67 inhabitants per square kilometre (6.9/sq mi). Neighbouring municipalities are Karstula , Kivijärvi , Saarijärvi , Viitasaari and Äänekoski . The municipality

126-649: The European Union can be found in Siuruankylä, Pudasjärvi. The trondhjemite gneiss is aged 3,500 million years. Two Finnish melodic death metal bands, Kalmah and Eternal Tears of Sorrow formed in Pudasjärvi. The Big Dipper and the bear of the Pudasjärvi's coat of arms are based on the old seal of the parish keeper. The coat of arms was designed by Gustaf von Numers , and the Pudasjärvi town council approved it at its meeting on August 2, 1950. The Ministry of

140-591: The New Valamo monastery was soon established. 27 monks died during the evacuation and were buried in the graveyard of the Lutheran Kannonkoski church . Kannonkoski, Karstula, Kivijärvi and Kyyjärvi planned to merge into the Suomenselkä municipality  [ fi ] from January 1, 2022. Karstula, Kivijärvi and Kyyjärvi accepted the merger proposal, but Kannonkoski did not. After Kannonkoski left out of

154-621: The planned merger, Kivijärvi also left out, and later the merger project of the remaining Karstula and Kyyjärvi failed at the Kyyjärvi municipal council meeting held on May 17, 2021, and the Ministry of Finance does not propose a forced merger either. There are all together 81 lakes in Kannonkoski. Biggest lakes are Kivijärvi , Vuosjärvi and Kannonselkä . Pudasj%C3%A4rvi Pudasjärvi ( Finnish pronunciation: [ˈpudɑsˌjærʋi] )

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168-639: Was named Kannonkoski after the nearby rapids. During the Winter War , 117 monks from the Valamo monastery in the lake Ladoga were evacuated. They arrived in Kannonkoski in 1939, bringing various icons and relics with them. The monks lived in the Piispala school, which at the time was closed due to the ongoing war. The monks left Kannonkoski in the autumn of 1940 after they had purchased an old manor in Heinävesi , where

182-404: Was separated from Rautalampi. Saarijärvi became a separate parish in 1639 as Palvasalmi . At the time, the parish also included Karstula , Kyyjärvi , Pylkönmäki and a part of Konginkangas . The parish was renamed to Saarijärvi sometime after 1690. Karstula, including Kyyjärvi, was separated in 1887, Konginkangas in 1895 (partially from Viitasaari ) and Pylkönmäki in 1914. Saarijärvi became

196-400: Was split off from Viitasaari in 1904. In 1919 it was decided that the area should get its own parish, which happened in 1931. The parish was formed from parts of Viitasaari and Kivijärvi. The area became a municipality in 1934. The church and administrative center were placed in the village of Pudasjärvi , however because a municipality called Pudasjärvi already existed, the new municipality

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