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Lohja (; ) is a town and municipality of Finland.
It is located in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the Uusimaa region. The town has a population of 47,518 and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . The municipality is bilingual, although it is not required by law, with the majority being Finnish and minority Swedish speakers.
Lohja has been a focal point for the population and economy of Western Uusimaa since the early 14th century. It was renowned as a trading centre in the Middle Ages. The local inhabitants were among the pioneers of the Finnish mining and construction material industries. By Finnish standards, Lohja has long-established traditions in horticulture and especially in market gardening. These traditions are represented by the symbols of present-day Lohja: limestone and an apple.
Lohja is advantageously located near the Helsinki Metropolitan Area, and it benefits from a good road network. It takes less than an hour to drive from Helsinki to Lohja.
The landscape of Lohja is characterized by manors and gardens. Its area is divided by the Lohja ridge, which forms a watershed for the largest lake system of Southern Finland, Lohjanjärvi. The medieval St. Lawrence church is the architectural highlight of the downtown area, which also includes a heterogeneous mix of buildings mostly dating from the 1960s onwards. The new Lohja Library, opened in 2005, is a distinctly modern building placed in the very centre of the town.
The municipality of Lohjan kunta was consolidated with Lohja in 1997, and the municipality of Sammatti was consolidated with Lohja in 2009. The municipalities of Karjalohja and Nummi-Pusula were consolidated with Lohja in 2013.
Lohja is a minor North Albanian Tribe and it refers also to the traditional region that the tribe covers. It is part of the Malësia region, also in wider term as Malësia of Shkodra. Lohja is also used as a surname, for people claiming ancestry from it.
The term Lohja occurs, according to Edith Durham, in a document in 1349 as Loho.
Geographically, Lohja is a small region situated in the Malësia e Madhe District, near Dedaj, north of Koplik. It borders on the traditional tribal regions of Kastrati to the west and north, and on Reç and Rjolli to the south. Many families from Lohja are located in the town of Koplik and they are referred as autochtones even though they have settled around 200 years later than the founders.
The Lohja tribe had a population of some 2,500 in the last years of the 19th century.