Uusimaa Province

The Province of Uusimaa (Finnish: Uudenmaan lääni, Swedish: Nylands län) was a province of Finland from 1831 to 1997.

It was established in 1831, when the County of Nyland and Tavastehus was divided into the Häme Province and Uusimaa Province.

In 1997 it was merged with the Kymi Province and the southern parts of the Häme Province into the new Southern Finland Province.

Municipalities in 1997 (cities in bold)

Former municipalities (disestablished before 1997)

Governors

Johan Ulrik Sebastian Gripenberg 1831

Gustaf Magnus Armfelt 1832–1847

Johan Mauritz Nordenstam 1847–1858

Samuel Henrik Antell 1858–1862

Vladimir Alfons Walleen 1862–1869

Theodor Thilén 1869–1873

Georg von Alfthan 1873–1888

Victor Napoleon Procopé 1888

Hjalmar Georg Palin 1888–1897

Kasten de Pont 1897–1900

Mikhail Nikiforovitsh Kaigorodoff 1901–1905

Anatol Anatolievitsch Rheinbott 1905

Alexander Lvovsky 1905–1906

Max Theodor Alfthan 1906–1910

Eugraf Nyman 1910–1917

Bernhard Otto Widnäs 1913–1917

Bruno Jalander 1917–1932

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Uusimaa

Uusimaa (Finnish) or Nyland (Swedish) (both names mean “new land”) is a region in Finland. It borders the regions Southwest Finland, Tavastia Proper, Päijänne Tavastia and Kymenlaakso. Finland’s capital Helsinki (its largest city) and its second largest city Espoo are both located centrally in Uusimaa, making it by far the most populous region.

History

Uusimaa/Nyland was, along with the rest of Southern and Western Finland, held by the Kingdom of Sweden from the 12th or 13th century.

The coastal Uusimaa had earlier been sparsely populated, mostly by Tavastians, but was from the 12th century populated by Swedish settlers, mostly from Hälsingland, and Swedish-speaking villages came up near the mouths of Vantaanjoki and Keravanjoki.

The names Uusimaa and Nyland mean “new land” in English. The Swedish-language name Nyland appears in the documents from the 14th century. The Finnish-language name Uusimaa appears for the first time in 1548 as Wsimaa in the first translation of the New Testament to Finnish by Mikael Agricola.