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About Uusimaa

Uusimaa is a region of Finland. Finland’s capital and biggest town, Helsinki, along with the surrounding Greater Helsinki vicinity, are both contained in the place, which makes Uusimaa Finland's maximum populous place. The population of Uusimaa is 1,638,469. In historical instances, coastal Uusimaa changed into populated with the aid of Sami humans. The location name of Nuuksio derives from Sami word njukca which means Swan. Later Finns proper and Tavastians inhabited the area. Some area names have lines of Tavastian village names, like Konala which likely derives from older Tavastian village call Konhola.

Estonians inhabited the vicinity to a smaller volume, specifically for seasonal fishing. Swedish colonisation of coastal Uusimaa commenced after the second campaign to Finland inside the 13th century. The colonisation was part of changing pagan areas to Catholicism. Eastern Uusimaa had its first Christian Swedish colonialists in advance than the western part, which were given its colonialists in one mass switch of humans to Porvoo in the 14th century. The colonization becomes supported by way of the Swedish kingdom and the immigrants have been furnished with grain seeds and farm animals.

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