Köyliö is a municipality of Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

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It is located in the province

Provinces of Finland

The state of Finland consisted of six provinces between the years 1997 and 2009. The provincial authority was part of the central government's executive branch, not directly elected. The system was created in 1634, and its makeup was changed drastically in 1997, when the number of the provinces...

 of Western Finland

Western Finland

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 and is part of the Satakunta

Satakunta (region)

Satakunta is a region of Finland, part of the former Western Finland Province. It borders the regions of Finland Proper, Pirkanmaa, Southern Ostrobothnia and Ostrobothnia. The main city of the region is Pori. The name of the region literally means Hundred...

 region

Regions of Finland

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. The municipality has a population of and covers an area of km2 of which km2 is water. The population density

Population density

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 is PD/km2.

The municipality is unilingually Finnish

Finnish language

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It is said that the peasant Lalli

Lalli

Lalli is an apocryphal character from Finnish history. According to legend, he killed Bishop Henry on the ice of lake Köyliönjärvi in Finland on January 20, 1156.- Legend :...

 murdered the English bishop Henry

Bishop Henry

Saint Henry was a medieval English clergyman...

 on the ice of Lake Köyliö

Köyliönjärvi

Köyliönjärvi is a lake in Köyliö, Finland. Saint Henry was allegedly murdered on the ice of the lake in the mid-12th century. The lake and its surroundings are classified as a nationally valuable landscape by the government. The area has been inhabited continuously since the Iron Age....

 in 1155 AD, during the first Swedish Crusade into Finland

First Swedish Crusade

First Swedish Crusade is a legendary military expedition presumably in the 1150s that has traditionally been seen as the conquest of Finland by Sweden, with pagan Finns converting to Christianity. According to the legend, the crusade was conducted by King Eric IX of Sweden...

. A statue to Lalli was erected at Köyliö in 1989.

Twinnings

Nora

Nora Municipality

Nora Municipality is a municipality in Örebro County in central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Nora.The amalgamation leading to the present municipality took place already in 1967 and in 1971 the City of Nora became a unitary municipality.- Localities :* Dalkarlsberg* Gyttorp*...

, Sweden (1944) Kõo

Kõo Parish

Kõo Parish is a rural municipality of Estonia, in Viljandi County. It has a population of 1,194 and an area of 149.46 km².-Settlements:Villages...

, Estonia (1991) Fladungen

Fladungen

Fladungen is a town in the district Rhön-Grabfeld, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated in the Rhön Mountains, 20 km west of Meiningen, and 33 km east of Fulda.-Twinnings: Kõo, Estonia Köyliö, Finland Nora, Sweden...

, Germany (1996)

External links

• Municipality of Köyliö – Official website