Laitila
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Laitila (Template:IPA; Template:Langx<ref>Namn på kommuner från finska till svenska; Kotimaisten kielten keskus (in Swedish)</ref>) is a town and a municipality of Finland. It is located in the Southwest Finland region, and it is Template:Convert from Laitila to Turku. The municipality has a population of Template:Data Finland municipality/population count ({{#time: j F Y|Template:Data Finland municipality/population count }})<ref name="population_count" /> and covers an area of Template:Convert of which Template:Convert is water.<ref name="total_area" /> The population density is Template:Convert. The municipality is monolingually Finnish.
Laitila is renowned for its poultry farms and "egg festival" (Laitilan Munamarkkinat),<ref>Laitilan Munamarkkinat (in Finnish)</ref> which is why the subject of the municipal coat of arms of Laitila also refers to the parish's fame for chicken care.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> There is much demand for Laitila-based chicken eggs, as the local egg producer company Munax, among other things, has even planned to export eggs to South Korea.<ref>YLE: Laitilalainen munatuottaja Munax tähyää jo Etelä-Koreaan – vientiä suunniteltu jo vuosia (in Finnish)</ref> Laitila has also been called the "egg capital of Finland".<ref name="egg">TS: Laitila on Suomen munapääkaupunki (in Finnish)</ref>
Culture
Laitila has many Iron Age antiquities, the most famous of which are the so-called the warrior's grave of Kodjala.<ref>Paula Purhonen, Paula: Vainionmäki - A Merovingian Period Cemetery in Laitila, Finland. Finnish Heritage Agency; Helsinki, 1996. (in Finnish)</ref> Finland's oldest glass object, the Roman-era drinking horn, has been found in Laitila's Soukainen village.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The nationally significant built cultural environments defined by the Finnish Heritage Agency in 2009 in Laitila include the Untamala<ref>Untamalan raittikylä – Finnish Heritage Agency (in Finnish)</ref> and Suontaka villages<ref>Suontaan ryhmäkylä – Finnish Heritage Agency (in Finnish)</ref> and the Koukkela's the peasant house of Kauppila.<ref>Koukkelan Kauppilan umpipihainen talonpoikaistalo – Finnish Heritage Agency (in Finnish)</ref>
People
- Kaarlo Heininen (1853–1926)
- Pasi Saarela (born 1973)
- Mika Kares (born 1978)
- Valle Mäkelä (born 1986)
- Markus Seikola (born 1992)
- Susanna Tapani (born 1993)
See also
References
External links
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- Town of Laitila – Official site Template:In lang