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League Of Estonian Corporations
League of Estonian Corporations (Estonian: Eesti Korporatsioonide Liit, Estonian acronym: EKL) is an organisation that unites all-male academic corporations in Estonia. It was founded on March 28, 1915 by Vironia, Fraternitas Estica, Sakala, Ugala and Rotalia Corporation Ugala suspended its membership on May 10, 2008 but returned in 2012. Members *Vironia *Fraternitas Estica * Sakala *Ugala *Rotalia * Fraternitas Liviensis *Leola *Revelia Revala (also ''Rävälä'', la, Revalia, by Henry of Livonia ''Revele'', by Danish Census Book ''Revælæ'') was an Ancient Estonian county. It was located in northern Estonia, by the Gulf of Finland and corresponded roughly to the present terri ... *Tehnola *Fraternitas Tartuensis Wäinla and Fraternitas Ucuensis are both members, but they are not active in Estonia. References {{DEFAULTSORT:League Of Estonian Corporations Student organizations in Estonia 1915 establishments in Estonia ... [...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] |
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] |
Vironia (academic Corporation)
Korporatsioon Vironia (abbreviated korp! Vironia or C!V!) is an Estonian fraternal student society and the oldest student corps in Estonia. The organization is named after the Latin name for the ancient Estonian county of Virumaa. A full member of the organization is called a "''vironus''" (abbr. "vir!"), while every member can also be called a "Vironian" (''viroonlane''). History Vironia was officially founded at the Riga Polytechnical Institute on as the very first ethnic Estonian student corps. It remained the only Estonian student corps in Riga and became also the only Estonian member of the two Baltic German corps federations (''Chargierten-Convent'') in the Baltic governorates. Vironia was also the initiator and the co-founder of the League of Estonian Corporations in 1915. After a brief evacuation to Moscow during World War I in 1915 and short return to Riga in 1918, Vironia entered the Estonian War of Independence ''in corpore''. 6 of its members died in the wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fraternitas Estica
Fraternitas Estica is an all-male academic corporation at the University of Tartu, Estonia. It was founded in 1907. History 1900. In August vil! dr. Aleksander Paldrok makes a proposal at Estonian Students' Society's general assembly to propose the Estonian Students' Society for becoming a corporation. This idea did not get the necessary support 1904. Twelve members of the Estonian Students' Society request to establish a separate corporation 1906. A plea for creating a new corporation is presented to the rector of Tartu University 9 May 1907 (26 April according to Julian calendar). Fraternitas Estica appears first time in colours to the public. This is officially considered the establishing date. 1912. Eleven active members are expelled, who then established corporation Ugala. 1918. Fraternitas Estica members volunteer in corpore to fight in the Estonian War of Independence. 1932. A plot of land with a house is acquired at Aia street 54, in Tartu (nowadays Vanemuise 54 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sakala (academic Corporation)
Korporatsioon Sakala (abbreviated Korp! Sakala) is a fraternal organization of Estonian higher education students. It was established at the University of Tartu on November 14, 1909. The motto of korp! Sakala is ''One for all, and all for one!'' Its principles are ''natio'', ''democratia'' and ''fraternitas'', which are represented by the colors blue, violet and white as well the main principles of korp! Sakala are national loyalty, patriotism, promoting education, healthy living and physical recreation. The goal of korp! Sakala is to strengthen the academic bonds and support its members both morally and materially. With its activities Sakala intends to improve Estonia’s self-governance, preserve and advance its culture and to support realization of the ideas of democracy. Korp! Sakala's convent house is one of the architectural masterpieces in Tartu, planned by renowned Finnish national architect's Armas Lindgren and Wivi Lönn and completed in 1911. The high ceilings, p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fraternitas Liviensis
Fraternitas Liviensis (also Korp! Fraternitas Liviensis) is an all-male academic corporation in Estonia. It was established on 28 January 1918. See also * Characterization of German Student Corps *League of Estonian Corporations League of Estonian Corporations (Estonian: Eesti Korporatsioonide Liit, Estonian acronym: EKL) is an organisation that unites all-male academic corporations in Estonia. It was founded on March 28, 1915 by Vironia, Fraternitas Estica, Sakala, Ugal ... References External links * 1918 establishments in Estonia Organizations established in 1918 {{Edu-org-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korporatsioon Revelia
Korporatsioon Revelia (also Korp! Revelia) is an all-male fraternity in 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, a .... It was founded in 1920. References External links * 1920 establishments in Estonia Organizations established in 1920 {{Edu-org-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Student Organizations In Estonia
A student is a person enrolled in a school or other educational institution. In the United Kingdom and most commonwealth countries, a "student" attends a secondary school or higher (e.g., college or university); those in primary or elementary schools are "pupils". Africa Nigeria In Nigeria, education is classified into four system known as a 6-3-3-4 system of education. It implies six years in primary school, three years in junior secondary, three years in senior secondary and four years in the university. However, the number of years to be spent in university is mostly determined by the course of study. Some courses have longer study length than others. Those in primary school are often referred to as pupils. Those in university, as well as those in secondary school, are referred to as students. The Nigerian system of education also has other recognized categories like the polytechnics and colleges of education. The Polytechnic gives out National Diploma and Higher Nation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
