20km/12.5mi south of Jakobstad lies the town of Nykarleby (Finnish name Uusikaarlepyy), founded in 1620, where Per Brahe established the first secondary school in Österbotten (1640). The little town is still mainly Swedish-speaking and is located at the mouth of the Lapua River. Nykarleby was the birthplace in 1818 of Zachris Topelius, the most
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