Kuopio Province

Kuopio Province
Kuopion lääni
Kuopio län

Province of Finland

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1831–1997

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Coat of arms

Capital

Kuopio

History

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Established

1831

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Disestablished

1997

Area

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1.1.1993

19,954 km² (7,704 sq mi)

Population

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1.1.1993

258,662

Density

13 /km² (33.6 /sq mi)

The Kuopio Province (Finnish: Kuopion lääni, Swedish: Kuopio län) was a province of Finland from 1831 to 1997. The province was named after the city of Kuopio.

History

The predecessor of province was the County of Savolax and Karelia, which was established in 1775 when Finland was integrated part of Sweden.

As a consequence of the tumultuous conflicts of the Napoleonic Wars, Sweden had allied itself with the Russian Empire, United Kingdom and the other parties of the Fourth Coalition against Napoleonic France. However, following the treaty of Treaty of Tilsit in 1807, Russia made peace with France and left the coalition. This enabled Russia in 1808 to challenge Sweden in the Finnish War, over the control of Finland. In the Treaty of Fredrikshamn on September 17, 1809 Sweden was obliged to cede all its territory in Finland, east of the Torne River, to Russia.

The ceded territories became a part of the Russian Empire and were reconstituted into the Grand Duchy of Finland, with the Russian Tsar as the Grand Duke. At first there wasn't any changes in the County of Savolax and Karelia, which was now a province in the autonomic Grand Duchy. Kuopio Province was established in 1831 from this province, while its southern parts were transferred to the new Mikkeli Province.

In 1960 the eastern part of the Kuopio province was separated as the Northern Karelia Province. In 1997 the province was reunited with Northern Karelia and together they merged with the Mikkeli Province, to establish the new Eastern Finland Province.

Provinces of Finland 1776: 1: Turku and Pori, 4: Vaasa, 10: Oulu, 14: Nyland and Tavastehus, 15: Kymmenegård, 16: Savolax and Karelia

Provinces of Finland 1831: 1: Turku and Pori, 2: Uusimaa, 3: Häme, 4: Vaasa, 6: Mikkeli, 8: Kuopio, 10: Oulu, 13: Viipuri

Provinces of Finland 1945: 1: Turku and Pori, 2: Uusimaa, 3: Häme, 4: Vaasa, 5: Kymi, 6: Mikkeli, 8: Kuopio, 10: Oulu, 11: Lapland, 12: Åland

Provinces of Finland 1996: 1: Turku and Pori, 2: Uusimaa, 3: Häme, 4: Vaasa, 5: Kymi, 6: Mikkeli, 7: Central Finland, 8: Kuopio, 9: Northern Karelia, 10: Oulu, 11: Lapland, 12: Åland

Provinces of Finland 1997: 10: Oulu, 11: Lapland, 12: Åland, 22: Southern Finland, 23: Western Finland, 24: Eastern Finland

Municipalities in 1997 (cities in bold)

Former municipalities (disestablished before 1997)

Kuopion mlk
Muuruvesi
Pielisensuu
Pälkjärvi
Riistavesi
Säyneinen

Governors

Lars Sackleen 1831–1833
Gustaf Adolf Ramsay 1833–1854
Berndt Federley 1854–1855
Sten Knut Johan Furuhjelm 1855–1862
Samuel Henrik Antell 1862–1866
Johan August von Essen 1866–1873
Carl Gustaf Mortimer von Kraemer 1873–1884
August Alexander Järnefelt 1884–1888
Johan Fredrik Gustaf Aminoff 1888–1899
Henrik Åkerman 1899–1900
Edvard Gabriel Krogius 1900–1903
Martin Alexius Bergh (Martti Vuori) 1903–1905
Emil Wilhelm Stenius 1905–1911
Werner Nikolaus Tavaststjerna 1911–1913
Arthur Spåre 1913–1917
Albert von Hellens 1917–1918
Gustaf Ignatius 1918–1940
Pekka Heikkinen 1940–1950
Lauri Riikonen 1950–1960
Erkki O. Mantere 1960–1966
Risto Hölttä 1966–1978
Kauko Hjerppe 1978–1993
Olavi Martikainen 1993–1997

Former provinces of Finland

In parentheses are years when provinces were established and disestablished.

1634–1775	Turku and Pori (1634) Nyland and Tavastehus (1634) Ostrobothnia (1634–1775) Viborg and Nyslott (1634–1721) Kexholm (1634–1721) Kymmenegård and Nyslott (1721–1747) Savolax and Kymmenegård (1747–1775)

1775–1831	Turku and Pori (1634) Nyland and Tavastehus (1634–1831) Vaasa (1775) Oulu (1775) Kymmenegård (1775–1831) Savolax and Karelia (1775–1831) Viipuri (1812)

1831–1918	Turku and Pori (1634) Vaasa (1775) Oulu (1775) Viipuri (1812) Häme (1831) Uusimaa (1831) Mikkeli (1831) Kuopio (1831)

1918–1997	Turku and Pori (1634–1997) Vaasa (1775–1997) Oulu (1775) Viipuri (1812–1945) Häme (1831–1997) Uusimaa (1831–1997) Mikkeli (1831–1997) Kuopio (1831–1997) Åland (1918) Petsamo (1921–1921) Lapland (1938) Kymi (1945–1997) Central Finland (1960–1997) Northern Karelia (1960–1997)

1997–2009	Oulu (1775–2009) Åland (1918–2009) Lapland (1938–2009) Southern Finland (1997–2009) Western Finland (1997–2009) Eastern Finland (1997–2009)

Coordinates: 62°53′33″N 27°40′42″E / 62.8925°N 27.6783°E / 62.8925; 27.6783

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