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Pajala is a town (pop. 2,000) in Norrbotten
Norrbotten

Norrbotten is a Provinces of Sweden in northernmost Sweden. It borders south to V?sterbotten, west to Swedish Lappland, and east to Finland....
, Sweden
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
 and the seat of Pajala Municipality
Pajala Municipality

Pajala Municipality is a municipalities of Sweden in Norrbotten County in northern Sweden, bordering Finland. Its seat is located in Pajala.In 1884 T?rend? was detached from Pajala Municipality, forming a municipality of its own....
, Norrbotten County
Norrbotten County

Norrbotten County is a Counties of Sweden or l?n in the extreme north of Sweden. It borders to V?sterbotten County and the Gulf of Bothnia....
.

History
Lars Levi Læstadius
Lars Levi Læstadius

Lars Levi L?stadius was a Sweden Lutheran pastor of partly Sami people ancestry. From the mid 1840's and onward he became the leader of the Laestadian movement....
 lived and worked in Pajala Municipality in the middle of the 19th century. More precisely his place of residence was Kengis
Kengis

Kengis is a small rural community in northernmost Sweden and located very near to the Finland border.In 1644, two Swedish noblemen, later called Renstierna , set up a forge in the Swedish village Pajala north of the Polar circle....
, but during 1869 Læstadii house, grave and the whole church of Kengis was moved to Pajala.

The town was bombed by soviet
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
 airplanes during the Finnish
Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
 Winter War
Winter War

The Winter War or the Soviet-Finnish War began when the Soviet Union attacked Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the invasion of Poland by Germany that started World War II....
, in the spring 1940, but there were no human casualties.






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Pajala is a town (pop. 2,000) in Norrbotten
Norrbotten

Norrbotten is a Provinces of Sweden in northernmost Sweden. It borders south to V?sterbotten, west to Swedish Lappland, and east to Finland....
, Sweden
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
 and the seat of Pajala Municipality
Pajala Municipality

Pajala Municipality is a municipalities of Sweden in Norrbotten County in northern Sweden, bordering Finland. Its seat is located in Pajala.In 1884 T?rend? was detached from Pajala Municipality, forming a municipality of its own....
, Norrbotten County
Norrbotten County

Norrbotten County is a Counties of Sweden or l?n in the extreme north of Sweden. It borders to V?sterbotten County and the Gulf of Bothnia....
.

History


Lars Levi Læstadius
Lars Levi Læstadius

Lars Levi L?stadius was a Sweden Lutheran pastor of partly Sami people ancestry. From the mid 1840's and onward he became the leader of the Laestadian movement....
 lived and worked in Pajala Municipality in the middle of the 19th century. More precisely his place of residence was Kengis
Kengis

Kengis is a small rural community in northernmost Sweden and located very near to the Finland border.In 1644, two Swedish noblemen, later called Renstierna , set up a forge in the Swedish village Pajala north of the Polar circle....
, but during 1869 Læstadii house, grave and the whole church of Kengis was moved to Pajala.

The town was bombed by soviet
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
 airplanes during the Finnish
Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
 Winter War
Winter War

The Winter War or the Soviet-Finnish War began when the Soviet Union attacked Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the invasion of Poland by Germany that started World War II....
, in the spring 1940, but there were no human casualties. 134 bombs were dropped, six buildings burned down to the ground, and the town received various damages. Only two persons were slightly injured. Soviet officers later inspected the destruction and the Soviet Union paid damage adjustments during 1940.

Litterature about Pajala


The events in Mikael Niemi
Mikael Niemi

Mikael Niemi is a Sweden author. He wrote the novel Popul?rmusik fr?n Vittula . It is the story of a young boy, Matti, growing up in Pajala in the 1960s and is recounted in a humorous, way....
's book "Populärmusik från Vittula" (Popular Musik from Vittula) occur mainly in Pajala. Vittula, or more properly Vittulajänkkä, is a colloquial denotion for a certain garden suburb in Pajala.

In another portrait over Pajala by this author the book "Mannen som dog som en lax" (The Man that Died like a Salmon). In this criminal novel the author relates to the state of the minority language Meänkieli
Meänkieli

Me?nkieli is a Finno-Ugric language spoken in the most northern parts of Sweden, around the valley of the Torne River. From a linguistic point of view Me?nkieli is a mutually intelligible dialect of Finnish language, but for political and historical reasons it has the status of a minority language in Sweden....
's situation in Pajala of today.