Juva
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Juva (, also ) is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the South Savo region some North-East of Helsinki. It was founded on 19 January 1442, and is the oldest parish/municipality in Finland whose exact date of birth is known. At the time, it was only the second parish in Eastern Finland, and later, several other parishes were separated from it, such as Sääminki, (present-day Savonlinna), Kuopio, Iisalmi, Pieksämäki, Joroinen, Leppävirta, Siilinjärvi, Lapinlahti and Maaninka. Secular municipal administration was established in 1868.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Juva
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Church of Juva 1 AB.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Juva Church
- Settlement.image_shield
- Juva.vaakuna.svg
- Settlement.shield_size
- 120x80px
- Settlement.image_map
- Juva sijainti Suomi.svg
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- Location of Juva in Finland
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- South Savo
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Sub-region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Pieksämäki
- Settlement.leader_title
- Municipal manager
- Settlement.leader_name
- Mervi Simoska
- Settlement.established_title
- Parish
- Settlement.established_date
- 1442-01-19
- Settlement.established_title2
- Municipality
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Finland
- Official name
- Jockas kommun
- Country
- Finland
- Located in
- Mikkeli Province
- Official language
- Finnish
- Population
- 5569
- Area
- 182.32
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Shares border with
- Sulkava
- Official website
- www.juva.fi
- Image
- Church of Juva-IMG 6860 62.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Juva
- Commons category
- Juva
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Juva
- twinned administrative body
- Åtvidaberg Municipality
- associated electoral district
- Southeast Finland
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- Pieksämäki sub-region
- citizens' initiative URL
- www.kuntalaisaloite.fi/sv/sok?municipalities=178
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
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Juva (, also ) is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the South Savo region some North-East of Helsinki. It was founded on 19 January 1442, and is the oldest parish/municipality in Finland whose exact date of birth is known. At the time, it was only the second parish in Eastern Finland, and later, several other parishes were separated from it, such as Sääminki, (present-day Savonlinna), Kuopio, Iisalmi, Pieksämäki, Joroinen, Leppävirta, Siilinjärvi, Lapinlahti and Maaninka. Secular municipal administration was established in 1868.
Neighbouring municipalities are Joroinen, Mikkeli, Pieksämäki, Puumala, Rantasalmi and Sulkava.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Juva” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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