Kisko

Kisko

Kisko

Former municipality in Western Finland, Finland

For other uses, see Kisko (disambiguation).

Kisko (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈkisko]) is a former municipality of Finland. It was consolidated with Salo on 1 January 2009.

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It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Southwest Finland region. The municipality had a population of 1,869 (2004-12-31) and covered an area of 284.13 km² of which 30.98 km² is water. The population density was 7.38 inhabitants per km².

The municipality was unilingually Finnish.

History

Kisko was first mentioned in 1347, when it was a part of the parish of Pohja. It became an independent parish somewhere between the 1400s and the 1500s. At that time, the parish of Kisko also included Suomusjärvi, which became a separate parish in 1898.

Kisko was consolidated with Salo in 2009.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    "SuomalainenPaikannimikirja_e-kirja_kuvallinen.pdf" (PDF). kaino.kotus.fi (in Finnish). p. 165+430. Retrieved August 18, 2022.

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