Häme Province
Former province of Finland
Province of Häme Hämeen lääni Tavastehus län | |||||||||||
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Province of Finland | |||||||||||
1831–1997 | |||||||||||
Coat of arms | |||||||||||
Capital | Hämeenlinna | ||||||||||
Area | |||||||||||
61°00′00″N 24°26′29″E / 61.0000°N 24.4414°E / 61.0000; 24.4414 | |||||||||||
• 1 January 1993 | 22,246 km2 (8,589 sq mi) | ||||||||||
Population | |||||||||||
• 1 January 1993 | 688,200 | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
• Established | 1831 | ||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1997 | ||||||||||
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The Province of Häme (Finnish: Hämeen lääni, Swedish: Tavastehus län) was a province of Finland from 1831 to 1997.
In 1997 the southern parts with Kanta-Häme, Päijät-Häme was merged with the province of Uusimaa and Kymi into the new province of Southern Finland. The northern part with Pirkanmaa was merged with the provinces of Vaasa, Central Finland, Turku and Pori into the new province of Western Finland.
The province corresponds roughly to the current regions of Kanta-Häme, Päijät-Häme and Pirkanmaa.
Maps
Municipalities in 1997 (cities in bold)
- Asikkala
- Forssa
- Hattula
- Hauho
- Hausjärvi
- Hollola
- Humppila
- Hämeenkoski
- Hämeenkyrö
- Hämeenlinna
- Ikaalinen
- Janakkala
- Jokioinen
- Juupajoki
- Kalvola
- Kangasala
- Kihniö
- Kuhmalahti
- Kuorevesi
- Kuru
- Kylmäkoski
- Kärkölä
- Lahti
- Lammi
- Lempäälä
- Loppi
- Luopioinen
- Längelmäki
- Mouhijärvi
- Mänttä
- Nastola
- Nokia
- Orivesi
- Padasjoki
- Parkano
- Pirkkala
- Pälkäne
- Renko
- Riihimäki
- Ruovesi
- Sahalahti
- Tammela
- Tampere
- Toijala
- Tuulos
- Urjala
- Valkeakoski
- Vesilahti
- Viiala
- Viljakkala
- Vilppula
- Virrat
- Ylöjärvi
- Ypäjä
Former municipalities (disestablished before 1997)
- Aitolahti
- Akaa [fi] (re-established 2007)
- Eräjärvi
- Hämeenlinnan mlk
- Koijärvi
- Messukylä
- Pohjaslahti
- Somerniemi
- Sääksmäki
- Teisko
- Tottijärvi
- Tyrväntö
- Vanaja
Governors
- Carl Klick [fi] 1831
- Johan Fredrik Stichaeus [fi] 1831–1841
- J. V. Snellman 1831 (acting)
- Carl Otto Rehbinder [fi] 1841–1863
- Samuel Werner von Troil [fi] 1863–1865
- Clas Herman Molander [fi] 1865–1869
- Hjalmar (Sebastian) Nordenstreng [fi] 1870–1875
- Edvard (Reinhold) von Ammondt [fi] 1875–1887
- Torsten Costiander [fi] 1887–1895
- Edvard Boehm [fi] 1895–1899
- Gustaf Axel von Kothen [fi] 1900–1901
- Isidor Svertschkoff [fi] 1901–1904
- Alexander Pappkoff [fi] 1904–1906
- Ivar (Sune) Gordie [fi] 1906–1910
- Arthur Brofeldt 1910–1911 (acting)
- Rafael Knut Harald Spåre [fi] 1911–1917
- Kustaa Adolf Saarinen [fi] 1917–1918 (acting)
- Antti Tulenheimo 1918–1919
- Albert von Hellens 1919–1930
- Sigurd Mattsson [fi] 1930–1959
- Jorma Tuominen [fi] 1959–1972
- Valdemar Sandelin 1973–1979
- Risto Tainio [fi] 1979–1994
- Kaarina Suonio 1994–1997
External links
- Media related to Tavastgus Governorate at Wikimedia Commons
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Former provinces of Finland
In parentheses are years when provinces were established and disestablished.
- 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)
- Turku and Pori (1634)
- Nyland and Tavastehus (1634–1831)
- Vaasa (1775)
- Oulu (1775)
- Kymmenegård (1775–1831)
- Savolax and Karelia (1775–1831)
- Viipuri (1812)
- 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)
- Oulu (1775–2009)
- Åland (1918–2009)
- Lapland (1938–2009)
- Southern Finland (1997–2009)
- Western Finland (1997–2009)
- Eastern Finland (1997–2009)