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Kuusamo’s Kirkkoketo in the 1930s

There has been a settlement here since the Stone Age. Plenty of signs have been found of it from 2000-3000 years before Christ.

In the 16th century, there was a Sámi settlement here, which was concentrated in the winter villages of Maanselkä and Kitka. The first settlers came from the direction of Kainuu at the end of the 17th century. The settlement progressed so strongly that the Sámi had to give way or merged into the settlement almost completely by the middle of the 1700s.