Vampula
former municipality of Finland, now part of Huittinen
Vampula is a former municipality of Finland. It was consolidated with Huittinen on 1 January 2009.
It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Satakunta region. The municipality had a population of 1,677 (31 December 2008) and covered a land area of 142.34 square kilometres (54.96 sq mi). The population density was 11.78 inhabitants per square kilometre (30.5/sq mi).
The municipality was unilingually Finnish.
History
A few discoveries of objects from the Stone Age have been made in the Vampula area. Farming started along Loimijoki already in the Iron Age, and by the 13th century at the latest, almost all of Vampula's major inhabited villages were recorded by the church authority. The first inhabitants arrived in the Vampula area probably from Huittinen, but the oldest church connections point to Säkylä.
In 1590, four householders built a small log church at their own expense.
“Vampula” enters the record as former municipality of Finland, now part of Huittinen. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Vampula, former and municipality can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1234987. VIAF identifies the subject as 146557497. The Library of Congress control number is n78004382. Authority coordinates are 61.026, 22.690. 2 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2009, 2008 and 1590.
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