Paltamo

Paltamo is a municipality of Finland. Image File history File links The previous owner in the Finnish version of Wikipedia has given all of the copyright rights up. ... The municipalities (kunta in Finnish, kommun in Swedish) represent the local level of self government in Finland and also act as the basic regional administrative units of the country. ...

It is located in the province of Oulu and is part of the Kainuu region. The municipality has a population of 4,220 (2003) and covers an area of 1,134.14 km² of which 215.57 km² is water. The population density is 4.6 inhabitants per km². There are two built-up areas in the municipality: Kontiomäki and Paltamo. Kontiomäki has 600 inhabitants. Finland consists of 6 provinces (Finnish: läänit, Swedish: län), following a 1997 redesign that reduced their number from 12. ... Kainuu is a region (maakunta / landskap) of Finland. ... Finland is divided into 20 regions (maakunta/landskap in Finnish/Swedish). ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ...

The municipality is unilingually Finnish.

History

Paltamo was first inhabited 8,500 years ago. The most sophisticated finding yet has been a weapon shaped like a bear's head. In 1552 king Gustav Vasa gave an order in which the areas of the Lake Oulu were to be inhabited. 140 families left there. In 1555 it was counted that there were 133 families living in Paltamo. The picture church of Paltamo was built in 1726 by Johan Simonpoika Knubb. It was the fourth church on the site. One of the most important persons in the Finnish history of literature —Eino Leino— was born in Hövelö in 1878. Today Paltamo is one of the slowly declining municipalities of Finland. Events April - War between Henry II of France and Emperor Charles V. Henry invades Lorraine and captures Toul, Metz, and Verdun. ... Gustav Vasa, originally Gustav Eriksson Vasa (May 12, 1496–September 29, 1560) was King of Sweden from 1523 until his death. ... Events Russia breaks 60 year old truce with Sweden by attacking Finland May 23 - Paul IV becomes Pope. ... Events George Friderich Handel becomes a British subject. ... Eino Leino (July 6, 1878 - January 10, 1926) was a Finnish poet and journalist, considered one of the important developers of Finnish poetry. ... 1878 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...

Heraldry

As a word in the Finnish language, the word paltamo means a tar boat, which is the reason the coat of arms of Paltamo has three black tar boats on a golden background. Finnish (suomi in Finnish; the same word often erroneously presented in the partitive suomea or genitive suomen) is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland (92%) and by ethnic Finns outside Finland. ... A modern coat of arms is derived from the medi val practice of painting designs onto the shield and outer clothing of knights to enable them to be identified in battle, and later in tournaments. ...

External links

The official web site of Paltamo