Nokia

Nokia is a city and a municipality at the banks of the Nokianvirta River inside the location of Pirkanmaa, some 15 kilometers west of Tampere. As of 31 January 2019 it has a population of 33,539. The starting place of the call Nokia is difficult to understand. In current Finnish, noki approach soot and nokia is its inflected plural, despite the fact that this shape of the word is rarely if ever used. The maximum common theory claims the call certainly originates from the archaic Finnish word nois or nokinaata which means sable.

After sable turned into hunted to extinction in Finland, the word was applied to any dark coated fur animal, which includes the marten, which might be found in the area to this present day. The sable is enshrined on the Nokia coat of arms. However, later studies has seemed to indicate that sables by no means inhabited Finland within the first place, and the call nois may additionally simply discuss with the beaver. The first literary connection with Nokia is in a 1505 report in connection with the Nokia Manor. Nokia turned into the putting off considered one of the biggest battles in the Club War, a 1596 peasant rebellion against feudal lords.