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Järve, Tallinn
Järve ( Estonian for ''"Lake"'') is a subdistrict ( et, asum) in the district of Kristiine, Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. It has a population of 2,969 (). Järve has a railway station on the Elron western route. Gallery File:Järve raudteepeatus.jpg, Järve train station File:Tondi sõjaväelinnaku staabihoone.jpg, Main building of G4S G4S is a British Multinational corporation, multinational private security company headquartered in London, England. The company was set up in 2004 when London-based Securicor amalgamated with Danish firm Group 4 Falck. The company offers a ran ... Estonia File:Järve raudteeülesõit.jpg, Railway overpass References Subdistricts of Tallinn {{Tallinn-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tallinn
Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ''maakond'' (county). Tallinn is the main financial, industrial, and cultural centre of Estonia. It is located northwest of the country's second largest city Tartu, however only south of Helsinki, Finland, also west of Saint Petersburg, Russia, north of Riga, Latvia, and east of Stockholm, Sweden. From the 13th century until the first half of the 20th century, Tallinn was known in most of the world by variants of its other historical name Reval. Tallinn received Lübeck city rights in 1248,, however the earliest evidence of human population in the area dates back nearly 5,000 years. The medieval indigenous population of what is now Tallinn and northern Estonia was one of the last " pagan" civilisations in Europe to adopt Christianit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Järve Railway Station
Järve railway station ( et, Järve raudteepeatus) is a railway station in the Kristiine, Kristiine district of Tallinn, Estonia. The station serves the Järve, Tallinn, Järve sub-district which has approximately 3000 residents. The station is located approximately south from the Tallinn Baltic Station, Baltic station ( et, Balti jaam) which is the main railway station of Tallinn, near the Baltic Sea. Järve station is located between the and railway stations of the Tallinn-Keila railway line. The station was opened in 1923, and the station building was completed in 1926. There are two platforms along the two-track railway, both 150 meters long. History Although the Tallinn-Paldiski railway opened already in 1870, a station on this site was not opened before 1923. The station building was completed in 1926. Ticket sale was terminated in the station building in 1998. Operations Elron (rail transit), Elron's electric trains from Tallinn to Keila, , Turba, Estonia, Turba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mustamäe (subdistrict)
Mustamäe (Estonian for ''"Black Hill"'') is a subdistrict ( et, asum) in the district of Mustamäe, Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. It has a population of 50,688 (). Gallery File:Männipargi kõlakoda.jpg, Männi park File:EE-TLN-Sõpruse.JPG, Sõpruse puiestee File:SolarisT18ACInTallinn.jpg, Akadeemia street File:Põhja Eesti Regionaalhaigla Tallinn.jpg, Mustamäe hospital File:TUT Main entrance.jpg, Main building of Tallinn University of Technology File:Sõpruse puiestee ja Ehitajate ning Akadeemia tee ringtee.jpg, Sõpruse, Ehitajate and Akadeemia roundabout See also *TTÜ Sports Hall The TalTech Sports Hall ( et, TalTech Spordihoone) is a multi-purpose list of indoor arenas, indoor arena complex in Mustamäe, Tallinn. It was opened in 1975 and renovated in 2001. It is the current home arena of the TalTech Basketball team. ... References Subdistricts of Tallinn {{Tallinn-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nõmme (subdistrict)
Nõmme ( Estonian for ''"Heath"'') is a subdistrict in the district of Nõmme, Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. It covers an area of and had a population on 1 January 2014 of 6,389, with a population density of . Nõmme has a station on the Elron western route. The first train station in Nõmme was opened in 1872. Gallery File:Nõmme jaamahoone.jpg, Nõmme train station File:Nõmme turuhoone 3.jpg, Nõmme market building, burned down and rebuilt in 2010 File:Los Angeles? No, Nõmme Center, Tallinn Estonia.jpg, File:Ehitajate tee algul koos Mustamäe suusasillaga.jpg, Ehitajate tee going up to Nõmme hill from Mustamäe Mustamäe (Estonian for ''Black Hill'') is one of the 8 administrative districts ( et, linnaosa) of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. The smallest by area (it covers only 8.1 km²), it is at the same time the second largest district by popula .... File:N6mme rahu kirik 2007 veebruar.jpg, Nõmme Rahu (''Peace'') Church References Subdistricts of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rahumäe
Rahumäe ( Estonian for ''"Peace Hill"'' or ''"Quiet Hill"'') is a subdistrict ( et, asum) in the district of Nõmme, Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. It covers an area of and has a population of 3,075 (), population density is . Rahumäe has a station on the Elron western route. Rahumäe and Jewish Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ... cemeteries are situated in Rahumäe. Gallery File:Rahumäe jaama hoone.jpg, Rahumäe train station File:Rahumäe raudteepeatus (tänapäev).jpg, File:Rahumäe sõjaväejaama hoone.jpg, Ruins of former narrow gauge railway station building. File:Rahumäe kalmistu.jpg, Entrance of Rahumäe cemetery. File:Juudi kalmistu kabel.jpg, Chapel on Jewish cemetery File:Järve Keskus 2557.JPG, Järve shopping centre References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liiva, Tallinn
Liiva ( Estonian for ''"Sand"'') is a subdistrict ( et, asum) in the district of Nõmme, Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. It covers an area of and has a population of 1,365 (), population density is . It has a railway station on the Tallinn - Viljandi railway line operated by Elron (rail transit) AS Eesti Liinirongid, operating as Elron, is a government-owned passenger train operator in Estonia. The company was founded as a subsidiary of Eesti Raudtee in 1998, and separated shortly thereafter. Prior to 2014, the company operated exclusi .... Liiva cemetery is situated in Liiva. Gallery File:Liiva railway station building 15May2009.jpg, Liiva railway station File:Liiva raudteejaama veetorn,1917.JPG, Water tower in railway station File:Train in Liiva railway station 15May2009.jpg, References Subdistricts of Tallinn {{Tallinn-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Ülemiste
Lake Ülemiste ( et, Ülemiste järv) is the largest of the lakes surrounding Tallinn, Estonia. Ülemiste is the main part of the Tallinn water supply system, which supplies the city with most of its drinking water. The lake is fed mostly by Kurna stream and the Pirita River, through the Vaskjala–Ülemiste canal. Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport is located on the eastern shore of the lake and aircraft regularly take off and land over the lake. The airport maintains the necessary equipment ready to salvage in a short time any aircraft that crashes into the lake, as required by International Civil Aviation Organization regulations. The Tallinn Water Company, AS Tallinna Vesi, has a treatment plant on the north shore of the lake which supplies 90% of the water to the city. The remaining 10% comes from ground water wells, which are maintained as a backup in case the lake becomes contaminated. On 18 March 2010, a DHL Antonov An-26 aircraft made an emergency landing on the ice of the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kitseküla
Kitseküla (Estonian language, Estonian for ''"Goat Village"'') is a subdistrict () of the district of Kesklinn, Tallinn, Kesklinn (Midtown) in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. It has a population of 4,053 (). Kitseküla is situated between two railway corridors so there are several stations surrounding it: "Tallinn-Väike" on the Tallinn–Pärnu/Viljandi line; "Lilleküla railway station, Lilleküla", "Tondi railway station, Tondi" and "Järve railway station, Järve" on Tallinn–Paldiski/Turba, Estonia, Turba line and "Kitseküla railway station, Kitseküla" on Tallinn–Aegviidu line. All these stations are served by Elron (rail transit), Elron trains. Lilleküla Stadium, the home ground of the Estonia national football team and FC Flora football club, is located in the northwestern corner of Kitseküla, between the diverging railway lines. Gallery File:Tallinn-Väike 11Mar2009 1.jpg, Tallinn-Väike train station File:Tondi trammi- ja elektrirongipeatus.jpg, Tondi railway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tondi, Tallinn
Tondi is a subdistrict ( et, asum) in the district of Kristiine, Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. It has a population of 3,862 (). The Tallinn–Paldiski railway passes Tondi on its eastern side. There's a station named "Tondi Tondi may refer to: * Tondi, Tallinn, district of Kristiine, Tallinn, Estonia * Ibrahim Tondi (born 1985), Nigerien hurdler * Tondi Elektroonika, factory for electrotechnical components located in Tallinn, Estonia See also * Tondo (disambigua ..." on the Elron western route. Audentes Sports Center is located in Tondi. Gallery File:Tondi raudteepeatus 2013.jpg, Tondi railway station File:Tondi kasarmud (Tallinn).jpg, Former Tondi barracks File:Tondi tänav (Tallinn).jpg, Tondi street File:Dunteni park 01.jpg, Dunten park File:Tondi trammi- ja elektrirongipeatus.jpg, Tram stop File:Nõmme tee Tallinn.jpg, Nõmme street References Subdistricts of Tallinn {{Tallinn-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elron (rail Transit)
AS Eesti Liinirongid, operating as Elron, is a government-owned passenger train operator in Estonia. The company was founded as a subsidiary of Eesti Raudtee in 1998, and separated shortly thereafter. Prior to 2014, the company operated exclusively the electrified commuter rail system in Harjumaa, and was known until October 2013 as ''Elektriraudtee'', i.e. "the Electrical Railway". On 1 January 2014 Elron took over all domestic passenger train services in Estonia from Edelaraudtee. Network Inter-city rail Elron operates inter-city trains from Tallinn's Balti jaam on several lines: Tallinn– Tartu– Valga (connecting to Pasažieru vilciens trains to Riga), Tallinn–Tartu– Koidula, Tallinn–Narva, and Tallinn–Viljandi. Services on the Tallinn–Pärnu route ended in December 2018. The line required substantial upgrading and it was not felt worthwhile spending the money required for this around 8 years before Rail Baltica is due to provide much faster service to Pärn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estonian Language
Estonian ( ) is a Finnic language, written in the Latin script. It is the official language of Estonia and one of the official languages of the European Union, spoken natively by about 1.1 million people; 922,000 people in Estonia and 160,000 outside Estonia. Classification Estonian belongs to the Finnic branch of the Uralic language family. The Finnic languages also include Finnish and a few minority languages spoken around the Baltic Sea and in northwestern Russia. Estonian is subclassified as a Southern Finnic language and it is the second-most-spoken language among all the Finnic languages. Alongside Finnish, Hungarian and Maltese, Estonian is one of the four official languages of the European Union that are not of an Indo-European origin. From the typological point of view, Estonian is a predominantly agglutinative language. The loss of word-final sounds is extensive, and this has made its inflectional morphology markedly more fusional, especially with respect to no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristiine
Kristiine ( Estonian for ''" Christina"'') is one of the 8 administrative districts ( et, linnaosa) of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. Kristiine is divided into 3 subdistricts ( et, asum): * Järve *Lilleküla *Tondi The name of Kristiine originates from the Swedish Queen Christina under whose rule in 1653 the area was divided into 46 pieces (each of them 9 ha) and sold to businessmen and city officials for 100 riksdaler The svenska riksdaler () was the name of a Swedish coin first minted in 1604. Between 1777 and 1873, it was the currency of Sweden. The daler, like the dollar,''National Geographic''. June 2002. p. 1. ''Ask Us''. was named after the German Thaler. .... The whole area was called (Valley of Christina) and later Kristiine hayfield. The elder of the district is Andrei Novikov (as of September 2013). Population Kristiine has a population of 31,739 (). References External links * Districts of Tallinn Christina, Queen of Sweden {{tallinn-geo-st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
