Turku

A more exclusive definition for the urban area is the city region of Turku with a population around 235,000 consisting of four major municipalities Kaarina, Raisio, Naantali, and Turku.

Geography Aura River seen further away from central Turku Located at the mouth of the Aura river in the southwestern corner of Finland, Turku covers an area of convert of land, spread over both banks of the river.

Like all other Finnish cities, Turku does not collect information about the ethnic and religious makeup of its population. see Turun kaupungin tilastollinen vuosikirja, 2005/2006 There are Christian, Muslim and Jewish communities in Turku.

Rector and ordinarius In 1539 Agricola returned to Turku and ended up as the rector of Turku (Cathedral) School.

Royal Caribbean wants Caribbean artists to adorn large spaces on its new ship under construction at Meyer Turku in Finland.

The group operates from its bases in Tallinn, Vilnius, Stockholm, Aarhus, Copenhagen, Turku, Lisbon, Sofia and, starting from spring also in Munich and Hamburg.

Turku is Finland’s No. 1 summer destination, but registers barely a blip as an international cruise port.

Finland's Turku site, where Pernod Ricard produces a range of herbal and berry liqueurs such as Minttu, Lapponia, Suomi and Valkia, is entirely carbon neutral.

All Finnish national TV channels are viewable and national radio channels audible in the Turku area.

As of 2010, Turku and Tampere have preliminary plans for new tram systems, but no decision to build them has been made.

Aurakatu area in the 1910s In 1918, a new university, the Åbo Akademi – the only Swedish language university in Finland – was founded in Turku.

A year later, on 8 December 1915, Sibelius presented the revised version of his Fifth Symphony in Turku, combining the first two movements and simplifying the finale.

Even if Turku had no official capital status, both the short-lived institutions of Dukes and Governors-General of Finland usually had their Finnish residences there.

H. Ahlberg & Co workshop in Turku, where he worked until he started his military service at a machine gun company in the Pori Brigade in April 1919.

His first trip was made in 1828 after his graduation from Turku University, but it was not until 1831 and his second field trip that the real work began.

However, there are plans for a light rail system in the Turku region in the near future.

In 1536 the bishop of Turku sent Agricola to study in Wittenberg in Germany.

In 1546 Agricola lost his home and school in the Fire of Turku.

In 1820, the first school in Finland conforming to the Bell-Lancaster method was founded in Turku with the aim of making primary education more inclusive to the lower classes.

Nurmi's success brought electric lighting and running water for his family in Turku.