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169: 65: 24: 410:, and since that time its value has been fixed in Sweden and Finland. Of course, when a farm was divided, its mantal value was also divided, so the sum of the mantal values of the new farms was equal to the mantal value of the original farm. In the 1600s, most farms already had mantal values which were less than one. Divisions in the 1800s and 1900s led to even smaller values. 377:. According to Sjöström, the government in those days viewed the country and its revenues as a means of providing armed troops, rather than in terms of a population to be fed. Kiesi states that a mantal was a unit which described how many men were in a household. For example, if a family cultivating a farm had two adult brothers, then the farm was valued at 2 mantals. 428:
In the 1900s, mantal values were no longer relevant as crown land taxes ceased to exist and the government started drawing revenue from income taxes. Today, mantal values are only used in connection with some rural obligations and rights, while the size of farms in Finland is reported in hectares. In
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to measure the size and productivity of a piece of land. In the 1900s, the mantal lost its relevance because crown land taxes ceased to exist and the government started drawing revenue from income taxes. Today, mantal values are only used in connection with some rural obligations and rights, while
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in Finland and Sweden in the early 1500s. In the late 1600s, the unit's value was drastically adjusted throughout Finland, resulting in the so-called new mantals based on
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A mantal measures both physical area and monetary worth as it takes into account the productivity of the land. It is a
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who served a group of farmers. The term evolved to represent a group of farms that supported a mounted warrior, his
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Since about 1720, Finnish land records of independent farms have generally contained the following information:
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of estates of one mantal were around 500-1000 hectares. In some regions of Finland this was considered a
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Medieval landed inheritances of the Junkar and Vilken lineages of Vehkalahti, Finland
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Another explanation of the mantal is that of one man cultivating a plot to feed his
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operations no longer calculate mantal values for new divisions of estates.
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In late medieval and early modern government, a "mantal" referred to a
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According to Kiesi, a farm of one mantal was considered large.
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instrument used to gauge the wealth of a farm to determine its
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the size of farms in Finland is reported in hectares.
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