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Savonlinna (Nyslott in Swedish, literally Newcastle) is a municipality of about 28,000 inhabitants in the southeast of Finland, in the heart of the Saimaa lake region.
The city was founded in the 17th century based around St.
The castle was founded by Erik Axelsson Tott in 1475 in an effort to protect Savonia and to control the unstable border between the Kingdom of Sweden and its Russian adversary.
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The municipalities (kunta in Finnish, kommun in Swedish) represent the local level of administration in Finland and act as the fundamental administrative units of the country.
Municipalities have the right to levy a flat percentual tax, which is between 16 and 20 percent, and compromises two thirds of the total tax burden.
The size of the council is proportional to the population, the extremes being 9 in Sottunga and 85 in Helsinki.
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Among Finland's 432 municipalities, Helsinki's cost efficiency rating is 317th, meaning the capital is in the same league with the big, remote and troubled...
Until 1977 municipalities were divided into towns (kaupunki/stad), market towns (kauppala/köping) and country municipalities (maalaiskunta/landskommun).
From 1995 onwards only "municipality" is recogniced by law and any municipality that wishes so can call itself a town.
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The Municipalities (Kunta in Finnish, Kommun in Swedish) represent the local level of self government in Finland and also act as the basic regional administrative units of the country.
Municipalities control many community services, such as schools and health care, but they do not maintain roads, set laws or keep police forces.
The old word for a municipality is pitäjä, "keeper", because when the system was instituted, one municipality kept one minister.
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A municipality is governed by an elected council (valtuusto), which is legally autonomous and answers only to the voters.
Municipal managers (kunnanjohtaja or kaupunginjohtaja) are (A public official who is a member of the civil service) civil servants named by the council.
Municipalities were originally (A local church community) parishes.
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SouthernSavonia is located in the heart the Finnish lake district and is perhaps known for Lake Saimaa.
SouthernSavonia includes 20 municipalitieslisted below marked in bold).
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