Turku and Pori Province Turun ja Porin lääni Åbo och Björneborgs län Або-Бьёрнеборгская губерния
County of Sweden 1634–1809 Province of Grand Duchy of Finland 1809–1917 Province of independent Finland 1917–1997
1634–1997
Coat of arms
Capital	Turku
Area
• 1 January 1993	20,721 km2 (8,000 sq mi)
Population
• 1 January 1993	731,786
History
• Established	1634
• Disestablished	1997
Succeeded by Province of Åland Western Finland

Turku and Pori Province (Finnish: Turun ja Porin lääni, Swedish: Åbo och Björneborgs län, Russian: Або-Бьёрнеборгская губерния) was a province of independent Finland from 1917 to 1997. The province was however founded as a county in 1634 when today's Finland was an integrated part of Sweden. It is named after the cities of Turku (Swedish: Åbo) and Pori (Swedish: Björneborg).

Åland was split into a separate province in 1918. In 1997 Turku and Pori Province was merged with the northern part of the Häme Province, the provinces of Vaasa and Central Finland into the new Western Finland Province.

Maps[edit]

Municipalities in 1997 (cities in bold)[edit]

Former municipalities (disestablished before 1997)[edit]

Governors[edit]

• Broder Rålamb 1634–1637^[1]
• Melkior von Falkenberg 1637–1641^[2]
• Melkior von Falkenberg 1641–1642 (County of Turku/Åbo)^[2]
• Knut Lilliehöök 1642–1646 (County of Turku/Åbo)^[3]
• No governor 1641–1646 (County of Pori/Björneborg)
• Knut Lillienhöök 1647–1648
• Lorentz Creutz the Elder 1649–1655^[4]
• Erik von der Linde 1655–1666
• Ernst Johan Creutz the Elder 1666^[5]
• Harald Oxe 1666–1682
• Lorenz Creutz (younger) 1682–1698
• Jakob Bure 1698–1706
• Justus von Palmberg 1706–1714
• Johan Stiernstedt 1711–1713 (acting) and 1714–1722
• Otto Reinhold Yxkull 1722–1746
• Lars Johan Ehrenmalm 1744–1747 (acting) and 1747–1749
• Johan Georg Lillienberg 1749–1757
• Jeremias Wallén 1757–1768
• Kristoffer Johan Rappe 1769–1776
• Fredrik Ulrik von Rosen 1776–1781
• Nils Fredenskiöld 1780 (acting)
• Magnus Wilhelm Armfelt 1782–1790
• Joakim von Glan 1790–1791 (acting)
• Ernst Gustaf von Willebrand 1790–1806
• Olof Wibelius 1801–1802 (acting)
• Knut von Troil 1806–1816
• Otto Herman Lode 1811–1813 (acting)
• Carl Erik Mannerheim 1816–1826
• Lars Gabriel von Haartman 1820–1822 (acting)
• Eric Wallenius 1822–1826 (acting) and 1826–1828
• Adolf Broberg 1828–1831
• Lars Gabriel von Haartman 1831–1842
• Gabriel Anton Cronstedt 1840–1842 (acting) and 1842–1856
• Samuel Werner von Troil 1856 (acting)
• Carl Fabian Langenskiöld 1856–1858
• Selim Mohamed Ekbom 1857–1858 (acting)
• Johan Axel Cedercreutz 1858–1863 (acting) and 1863
• Carl Magnus Creutz 1864–1866 (acting) and 1866–1889
• Axel Gustaf Samuel von Troil 1889–1891
• Wilhelm Theodor von Kraemer 1891–1903
• Theodor Hjalmar Lang 1903–1905
• Knut Gustaf Nikolai Borgenström 1905–1911
• Eliel Ilmari Wuorinen 1911–1917
• Albert Alexander von Hellens 1917 (acting)
• Kaarlo Collan 1917–1922
• Ilmari Helenius 1922–1932
• Wilho Kyttä 1932–1949
• Erkki Härmä 1949–1957^[6]
• Esko Kulovaara 1957–1971
• Sylvi Siltanen 1972–1977^[7]
• Paavo Aitio 1977–1985^[8]
• Pirkko Työläjärvi 1985–1997^[9]

References[edit]

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