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Õhne
The Õhne (also known as ''Suislepa'' and ''Hoomuli'' River; lv, Omuļupe) is a long river in southern Estonia. Its source is Veisjärv Lake and mouth Võrtsjärv, Võrtsjärv Lake, it also flows some kilometres in Latvia. The basin area of Õhne is 573 km2. The towns of Tõrva, Vooru and Suislepa are situated on the Õhne River. Gallery File:Ohne-jogi1.JPG, File:Ohne jogi.jpg, File:Õhne jõgi 2010.jpg, File:Õhne jõgi Suislepa külas.jpg, References Rivers of Estonia Rivers of Latvia Landforms of Viljandi County International rivers of Europe {{Latvia-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suislepa
Suislepa is a village in Viljandi Parish, Viljandi County, Estonia. Until the 2017 administrative reform of Estonian municipalities the village was located in Tarvastu Parish.The population as of 2014 was 305 people. It is 42 km (26 miles) southeast of the town of Viljandi, near the southern coast of Võrtsjärv lake. History The village of Suislepa is located near the Õhne river (also called the Suislepa, Omuli, and Omeli river), first mentioned in 1478 in the German chronicles ''Omelsche Hecke'' by Baltic German settlers. In the 17th century, German nobles Jürgen Schütte Bultler and Franz Scutten began implementing the construction of a large manor in Suislepa. The estate went through a succession of owners until it fell into ruin in the early 19th century. In 1805, Major Karl Gustav von Krüdener Moritz, the son of German Baron von Mengden, began construction on the new Suislepa manor house and outbuildings. The new mansion was located high on the left bank of the Õhne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tõrva
Tõrva () is a town ( et, linn) in Tõrva Parish, Valga County, southern Estonia. It is situated on the banks of Õhne River. Tõrva has an area of and a population of 2800 (as of 1 January 2009), making it the second largest of the three towns in Valga County. Tõrva borough () gained its town rights on 2 July 1926. The last mayor Maido Ruusmann was elected on 5 November 2013. International relations Twin towns — Sister cities The former municipality of Tõrva was twinned with: Gallery File:Keskväljak.jpg, Town square File:Kauplus-Elamu Tõrvas Valga t. 4.jpg, Businesses in Tõrva File:Statue of Estonian War of Independence in Tõrva.jpg, Estonian War of Independence monument File:Torva gymnasium.jpg, Tõrva Gymnasium File:Õhnejõe hoiuala Tõrvalinnavalitsuse juures mai 2014 255.jpg, Õhne The Õhne (also known as ''Suislepa'' and ''Hoomuli'' River; lv, Omuļupe) is a long river in southern Estonia. Its source is Veisjärv Lake and mouth Võrtsjärv, Võrtsjä ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vooru
Vooru (locally, Vuuru) is a village in Viljandi Parish, Viljandi County, Estonia. It is 34 km (21 miles) southeast of the town of Viljandi, 2 km (1 mile) south of the village of Suislepa, near the southern border of Valga County and the Õhne river. As of 2011, the population of Vooru was 65, a decrease from 101 in the 2000 census. The ruins of the pre-Christian Vooru Castle hill fort are located in Vooru. The castle was built in the middle 6th-7th centuries AD and was in use until the 11th century. It was the largest stronghold of the native Livonian population in Viljandi County from that era. Archaeological excavations of the ruins in 1969-1970 reveal the stronghold was burned on at least three occasions before being abandoned. The site is now on the National Register of Cultural Monuments. The first recorded mention of Vooru (German: ''Worroküll'') as a settlement was in 1583, where a manor house built by Baltic German nobility stood. A later manor house and out ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veisjärv Lake
Veisjärv is a lake of Estonia located on the borders of Mulgi Parish and Viljandi Parish in Viljandi County next to the village of Veisjärve. The Õhne river flows into Veisjärv. See also *List of lakes of Estonia ''This is a list of lakes (including reservoirs) in Estonia.'' Largest lakes All lakes ''List is incomplete'' See also * External links {{Europe topic, List of lakes of * Estonia Lakes A lake is an area filled with water, locali ... Lakes of Estonia Viljandi Parish Mulgi Parish Lakes of Viljandi County {{viljandi-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Võrtsjärv
Lake Võrtsjärv (; german: Wirzsee) is a lake in southern Estonia with an area of 270 km² (104 mi²). It is the second largest lake in Estonia (behind Lake Peipus), and the largest lake situated entirely within Estonia. The shallow lake is 33.7 m (111 ft) above sea level. The river Emajõgi flows from Lake Võrtsjärv to Lake Peipus. History The lake basin existed before the Last Ice Age, but was then transformed by moving ice sheets which partly eroded the lake wall and partly filled the depression with deposits. In its present form the lake has existed since the Middle Holocene. It was first mentioned in the Livonian Chronicle of Henry, where it is called ''Worcegerwe''. Geography The relatively low shores of the lake are swampy in the south and sandy in the north. On the eastern shore, there is a coastal abrasion near the village of Tamme; these cliffs have yielded a number of fossils of Devonian fish, which have been compared to similar fossils fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rivers Of Estonia ...
Rivers of Estonia are short and mostly have small discharge. Only 10 rivers are longer than 100 km. The largest river is Narva (length 77 km) on the Estonian–Russian border, whose average discharge is larger than that of all other rivers combined. Longest rivers List of rivers ''List is incomplete.'' ReferencesEstonica: The hydrographic network* {{List of rivers of Europe Estonia Rivers A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rivers Of Latvia
Rivers of Latvia include: Longest rivers Rivers over 100 km: List of rivers A Abava - - Aiviekste - Amata - B Bārta - Bērze - C Cena - Ceraukste D - Daugava - Dienvidsusēja - - Dubna - Dvina E Engure - F Feimanka G Gauja H I Iecava - J * * ( et, Ümera), length of about 15 km K - Kūkova - L Langa - Lielā Jugla - Lielupe - Liepupe - - - Ludza M Malta - - - Mazā Jugla - Mēmele - - - Misa - Mūsa N Neretiņa O - Ogre - Omuļupe P Pededze - Pedele - - - - - - R - Reiu - Rēzekne - - Rītupe - - - Rūja S - Salaca - Slocene - Stende - - Suda - Sventāja - Svēte T Tartaks - Tebra - V - Venta - Z Zilupe References {{List of rivers of Europe * Latvia Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Balti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Lake Peipus and Russia. The territory of Estonia consists of the mainland, the larger islands of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa, and over 2,200 other islands and islets on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, covering a total area of . The capital city Tallinn and Tartu are the two largest urban areas of the country. The Estonian language is the autochthonous and the official language of Estonia; it is the first language of the majority of its population, as well as the world's second most spoken Finnic language. The land of what is now modern Estonia has been inhabited by '' Homo sapiens'' since at least 9,000 BC. The medieval indigenous population of Estonia was one of the last " pagan" civilisations in Europe to adopt Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latvia
Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is one of the Baltic states; and is bordered by Estonia to the north, Lithuania to the south, Russia to the east, Belarus to the southeast, and shares a maritime border with Sweden to the west. Latvia covers an area of , with a population of 1.9 million. The country has a temperate seasonal climate. Its capital and largest city is Riga. Latvians belong to the ethno-linguistic group of the Balts; and speak Latvian, one of the only two surviving Baltic languages. Russians are the most prominent minority in the country, at almost a quarter of the population. After centuries of Teutonic, Swedish, Polish-Lithuanian and Russian rule, which was mainly executed by the local Baltic German aristocracy, the independent R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landforms Of Viljandi County
A landform is a natural or anthropogenic land feature on the solid surface of the Earth or other planetary body. Landforms together make up a given terrain, and their arrangement in the landscape is known as topography. Landforms include hills, mountains, canyons, and valleys, as well as shoreline features such as bays, peninsulas, and seas, including submerged features such as mid-ocean ridges, volcanoes, and the great ocean basins. Physical characteristics Landforms are categorized by characteristic physical attributes such as elevation, slope, orientation, stratification, rock exposure and soil type. Gross physical features or landforms include intuitive elements such as berms, mounds, hills, ridges, cliffs, valleys, rivers, peninsulas, volcanoes, and numerous other structural and size-scaled (e.g. ponds vs. lakes, hills vs. mountains) elements including various kinds of inland and oceanic waterbodies and sub-surface features. Mountains, hills, plateaux, and plains are t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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