Posio

Posio lies among the lakes and forests of northern Finland, near the Kitka waters. This was Sámi country before Finnish settlement spread into the region; Sámi and Finnish inhabitants lived alongside one another from the late seventeenth century. The clergy of Pudasjärvi preached in the Posio area by 1688, while the Sámi of Kitka attended the church built at Tolpanniemi in Kuusamo in 1694.