Tavastia
Sign in to saveHäme, also known as Tavastia, is a historical province in the south of Finland. It borders Finland Proper, Satakunta, Ostrobothnia, Savo and Uusimaa.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Häme
- Settlement.image_shield
- Häme.vaakuna.svg
- Settlement.shield_size
- 100px
- Settlement.image_map
- Historical province of Tavastia, Finland.svg
- Settlement.mapsize
- 250px
- Settlement.map_caption
- Historical province of Häme in blue (borders of the modern regions in yellow)
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- 290px
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.other_name
- Tavastia
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Historical province
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- Regions
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- Major parts of:Kanta-HämePäijät-HämeCentral FinlandMinor parts of:North SavoSouth SavoKymenlaaksoSouthwest FinlandPirkanmaa
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Häme, also known as Tavastia, is a historical province in the south of Finland. It borders Finland Proper, Satakunta, Ostrobothnia, Savo and Uusimaa.
== History == thumb|The coat of arms of "Tavastia" on the tomb of Gustav Vasa (1560) is the earliest surviving image of a coat of arms. The province has been inhabited since the Stone Age. Northern Häme was for a long time a wilderness inhabited by Sami hunter-gatherers and frequented also by Finnish hunters. Only during the late Middle Ages was agriculture slowly introduced to the northern parts of the province.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tavastia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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