Karesuvanto
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Kaaresuvanto
Kaaresuvanto – Gárasavvon | |
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| Postal code | 99470 |
Karesuvanto or Kaaresuvanto (
Muonio River, which follows Finland's western border with Sweden
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The village of
Sami speaking. After the Finnish War
in 1809, the border was re-drawn for political reasons, not because of any cultural or linguistic reasons existing at that time. Later a cultural and language difference grew because of school and church influences.
The village got its first buildings in 1670, when
Sami Henrik Nilsson Nikkas. The vicar and botanist Lars Levi Laestadius worked in Kaaresuvanto where he founded the Laestadian revival movement named after him. In 1944 the area was burnt down by German troops during the Lapland War
and had to be rebuilt.
Kaaresuvanto is located on European route E8 from Tromsø to Turku and European route E45 which stretches from Alta in Norway to Gela in Italy.
External links
Karesuvanto travel guide from Wikivoyage
Media related to Kaaresuvanto at Wikimedia Commons- Information on matkailu.enontekio.fi
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