Anjala

This article is about the town in Finland. For other uses, see Anjala (disambiguation).

Anjala was a town in Southern Finland, which merged in 1975 with Sippola to form Anjalankoski, later further merged into Kouvola.^[1]

Coat of arms of Anjala

Illustration of Anjala manor [sv] in Finland framstäldt i teckningar edited by Zacharias Topelius and published 1845-1852.

Anjala is remembered historically in connection with the 18th-century event known as the Anjala Conspiracy.^{[citation needed]}

The Regina School, one of the country's first public schools, was located here, as was its library, which was the first in the country. They were founded by Rabbe Gottlieb Wrede [sv] with the help of the Christian educational society Pro Fide et Christianismo, of which he was a member.^[2][3]

People born in Anjala

• Gustaf Philip Creutz (1731–1785)
• Otto Wrede (1851–1936)
• Kari Rajamäki (b. 1948)
• Jouko Jääskeläinen (b. 1952)

References

1. Lindberg, Johan (2011-10-28). "Anjalankoski". Uppslagsverket Finland (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 2021-11-09. Retrieved 2022-06-15.
2. Wiklund, Henry (2015). Uppdraget som växte : historien om Svenska litteratursällskapet som förvaltare av allmännyttigt kapital (in Swedish). Helsingfors: Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland. p. 424. ISBN 978-951-583-275-7. OCLC 909277940.
3. Ahokas, Minna (2013-03-01). "Pro Fide et Christianismo -seuran papisto ja 1700-luvun ruotsalainen koulu-uudistuskeskustelu". Kasvatus & Aika (in Finnish). 7 (1). ISSN 1797-2299. Archived from the original on 2018-04-15.

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