Jamsa

Jamsa is a town within the province of Central Finland. The municipality borders on the municipalities of Orivesi, Juupajoki and Mantta Filpula within the west, Keuru within the northwest, Petajavesi within the north, Jyvaskyla inside the northeast, Luhango within the east and Kuhmois inside the south. Jamsa has about 20, 877 population and is monolingual Finnish. The municipality has a place of 1 823.77 km², of which the land vicinity is 1 571.23 km². In the center Ages, Jamsa became the northernmost parish in Tavastland.

The sock turned into formed in 1442 with the aid of a cut up of Hollola parish. The then Stor Jamsa comprised the present day municipality of Jamsa, almost all of Korpilax and Muurame, as well as components of Petajavesi and Saynatsalo. The common factor inside the massive parish turned into around Jamsa church. In the 1860s, Stor Jamsa cut up into new municipalities; Korpilax parish 1861 resp. Petajavesi municipality in 1867. The closing part of Stor Jamsa turned into then referred to as for Old Jamsa. Old Jamsa was divided in 1926 in the municipalities of Jamsa, Jamsankoski and Koskenpaa.