Turenki
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thumb|The Turenki railway station is the oldest of its kind in all of Finland Turenki () is a population center in the municipality of Janakkala, Finland, with a population of some 7,500 people. It has been said that Turenki is translated from Turinge, Thuring or Turängi. It is among the largest population centers of Janakkala, along with Tervakoski. Turenki is located about southeast of the city of Hämeenlinna.
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thumb|The Turenki railway station is the oldest of its kind in all of Finland Turenki () is a population center in the municipality of Janakkala, Finland, with a population of some 7,500 people. It has been said that Turenki is translated from Turinge, Thuring or Turängi. It is among the largest population centers of Janakkala, along with Tervakoski. Turenki is located about southeast of the city of Hämeenlinna.
== History == On 12 March 1940, the most destructive train accident in Finnish history happened in Turenki, where 39 people died and 69 got injured.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Turenki” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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