Oripää

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox settlement Oripää (Template:IPA) is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the Southwest Finland region. 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 unilingually Finnish.

An agricultural show OKRA is held in Oripää every two years.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

History

Oripää is named after a nearby hill, Orivuori (literally the "stallion mountain"), which may also have been called Oripää ("stallion head") at some point. As a village, Oripää is first mentioned in 1421. It was a part of the Pöytyä parish, but administratively a part of the Kumogård castle fief (linnalääni/slottslän), i.e. Satakunta. In the 15th century, the bishop of Turku had five leasehold farms in the village.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Oripää gained chapel rights in 1778 and became an independent parish in 1901.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>