Charter 1870 Time zone EET (UTC+2) Population 2,665 (30 Jun 2015) Local time Sunday 10:38 PM | Consolidated 2016 Website www.koylio.fi | |
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Köyliö (Swedish: Kjulo) is a former municipality of Finland. It was merged to the municipality of Säkylä on 1 January 2016.
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It was located in the province of Western Finland and was part of the Satakunta region. The population of Köyliö was 2,665 (30 June 2015) and covered a land area of 246.06 km2 (95.00 sq mi). The population density was 10.8307/km2 (28.051/sq mi).
The municipality was unilingually Finnish.
It is said that the peasant Lalli murdered the English bishop Henry on the ice of Lake Köyliö in 1155 AD, during the first Swedish Crusade into Finland. A statue to Lalli was erected at Köyliö in 1989.
Twinnings
Before the 2016 consolidation, Köyliö was twinned with;
References
Köyliö Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA