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Torupilli
Torupilli ( Estonian for ''" Pipe Instrument"'', after a type of bagpipe) is a subdistrict () in the district of Kesklinn (Midtown), Tallinn, the capital of 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 has a population of 3,729 (). File:Tartu maantee.jpg, Tartu road, Torupilli on the right side. File:TLN - 2010-03-06 - J. Kunderi.JPG, J. Kunderi street File:TLN - 2010-03-06 - K. A. Hermanni.JPG, K. A. Hermanni street References Subdistricts of Tallinn Kesklinn, Tallinn {{Tallinn-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kesklinn, Tallinn
Kesklinn (Estonian language, Estonian for ''"City centre"'') is one of the 8 administrative districts ( et, linnaosa) of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. It is situated on the Tallinn Bay and bordered to the northwest by the district of Põhja-Tallinn, to the west by Kristiine, to the southwest by Nõmme, to the east by Lasnamäe and Pirita, and to the south by Rae Parish, beyond Lake Ülemiste. The island of Aegna, located in the Tallinn Bay, also falls within this administrative district. Kesklinn has an area of and a population of 57,731 (); population density is . It is home to Tallinn's World Heritage Site, UNESCO-listed Old Town. Here sits the Tallinn Passenger Port and port-related business centres, including a new complex of high-rise buildings on Liivalaia Street, as well as Tartu Road and Maakri Street. Most of the city's public and cultural venues are located in Kesklinn. These include the Toompea Castle, parliament building (Toompea Castle), City Government, The Eston ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sikupilli
Sikupilli ( Estonian for ''" Billy Instrument"'', in reference to Torupilli) is a subdistrict () in the district of Lasnamäe, Tallinn, the capital of 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 has a population of 11,298 (). Gallery File:EE-TLN-LAS-Pae.JPG, Pae street File:EU-EE-Tallinn-LAS-Lasnamäe steet.JPG, Apartments in Sikupilli File:EU-EE-Tallinn-LAS-24VS.JPG, Chef's vocational school References Subdistricts of Tallinn {{Tallinn-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keldrimäe
Keldrimäe ( Estonian for ''"Cellar Hill"'') is a subdistrict () in the district of Kesklinn (Midtown), Tallinn, the capital of 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 has a population of 4,747 (). Gallery File:TLN - 2010-03-06 - Liivamäe 2.JPG, File:EU-EE-Tallinn-Kesklinn-Keldrimäe.JPG, File:Tartu maantee.jpg, File:Soviet Tartu mnt.JPG, Stalinist apartment building on the corner of Tartu maantee and Liivalaia File:TLN - 2010-03-06 - Kaasani kirik.JPG, Church of Our Lady of Kazan on Liivalaia street References External links Subdistricts of Tallinn Kesklinn, Tallinn {{Tallinn-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kadriorg
Kadriorg ( Estonian for ''" Catherine's Valley"'') is a subdistrict in the district of Kesklinn ("Midtown"), Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. It has a population of 4,561 (). The subdistrict name derives from the Catherinethal, a Baroque palace of Catherine I of Russia. It is one of the wealthiest neighbourhoods in Estonia. Kadriorg is known for the Kadriorg palace and the surrounding park, commissioned by the Russian Czar Peter the Great. Nowadays the park is a location of several museums including the Kadriorg Art Museum (a branch of the Art Museum of Estonia in Kadriorg palace), Kumu Art Museum, Mikkel, Peter the Great Museum and Eduard Vilde Museum. Nearby, close to the sea, is the Russalka Memorial which commemorates the loss of a Russian warship in 1893. The official residence of the President of Estonia is situated next to Kadriorg Palace in the park. Gallery File:Kadrioru loss 2005.jpg, Kadriorg Palace File:Presidential Palace in Tallinn, Estonia.jpg, Presiden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torupill
The torupill () is a traditional bagpipe from Estonia. Place in Estonian folk music It is not clear when the bagpipe became established in Estonia. The instrument was known throughout Estonia. The bagpipe tradition was longest preserved in West and North Estonia where folk music retained archaic characteristics for a longer time. Later when the fiddle was taking over folk music a lot of bagpipe tunes were transcribed for it. Very often the bagpipe was used for playing dance music; other instruments served this purpose only in the absence of the bagpipe. Some old ceremonial dances, such as the Round Dance (''Voortants'') and the Tail Dance (''Sabatants'') were performed together with a bagpiper who walked at the head of the column. Ceremonial music took an important place in the bagpipers' repertoires in the 17th century, as seen from the literary sources of that time. For instance, the presence of a bagpiper was considered essential during weddings, where he had to take part in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raua
Raua (Estonian for ''"Iron"'') is a subdistrict () in the district of Kesklinn (Midtown), Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. It has a population of 5,654 (). Gallery File:Kreutzwaldi 17.IMGP6202.JPG File:ETV hoone.JPG, Building of Estonian Television Eesti Televisioon (ETV) ( en, Estonian Television) is an Estonian free-to-air television channel owned and operated by Estonian Public Broadcasting. It made its first broadcast on 19 July 1955. History Eesti Televisioon (''Estonian Televis ... (ETV) File:Tallinna 21. Keskkool.jpg, Tallinn 21. School References Subdistricts of Tallinn Kesklinn, Tallinn {{Tallinn-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kompassi
Kompassi (Estonian for ''"Compass"'') is a subdistrict () in the district of Kesklinn (Midtown), Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. It has a population of 2,066 (). The Estonian Firefighting Museum Estonian Firefighting Museum (Estonian: ''Eesti Tuletõrjemuuseum'') is a museum in Tallinn devoted to introducing the historical heritage of firefighting in Estonia. The first volunteer fire department in Estonia was created in 1788, by the B ... is located in Kompassi inside a former fire department on Raua street. Gallery File:Tallinn Kompassi1.jpg, File:Gonsiori street in Tallinn.JPG, Gonsiori street References Subdistricts of Tallinn Kesklinn, Tallinn {{Tallinn-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maakri
Maakri is a subdistrict ( et, asum) in the district of Kesklinn (Midtown), Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. It has a population of 1,099 (). In the last decade Maakri has developed into the main business centre of Tallinn. Many high-rise buildings have been built into the area during this period. History Maakri subdistrict is named after the ''Macker'' family, who owned a painting workshop located at Maakri 23. The latter part of the 19th century saw Maakri become home to many shops and industrial factories, as well as to the first Great Synagogue of Tallinn, which was built in 1884 and destroyed in the 1944 March bombing. Maakri was also home to the Tallinn Paper Factory, which was located on the site of the current Stockmann department store, and to Theodor Grünwald's leather and footwear factory, which today has been redeveloped as Maakri Kvartal. After the Estonian Restoration of independence, many high-rise buildings have been built in the Maakri area. In 1999, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juhkentali
Juhkentali is a subdistrict ( et, asum) in the district of Kesklinn (Midtown), Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. It has a population of 1,221 (). History Pleekmäe, a suburb ('' vorstadt''), which located on the shore of the Härjapea, was first mentioned in 1536 as ''Bleke''. The subdistrict nowadays known as Juhkentali, was passed by the Härjapea. Gallery File:Tallinna bussijaam.jpg, Tallinn Bus Station File:KaleviKeskstaadion.jpg, Kalevi Keskstaadion File:Bronze Soldier of Tallinn, 2007.jpg, Bronze Soldier on the Tallinn Military Cemetery File:Juhkentali rimi.JPG, Rimi supermarket in Juhkentali street File:EU-EE-Tallinn-Kesklinn-Juhkentali-Juhkentali school.JPG, Juhkentali school File:Fahle.jpg, Fahle House / old celluloze factory reconstruction File:Fahle maja.jpg, File:EU-EE-TLN-Juhkentali street.JPG, Main street of quarter See also * Tallinn Bus Station *Kalevi Keskstaadion *Kalevi Spordihall * Tallinn Sports Hall * Siselinna Cemetery * Defence Forces Cemetery of ... [...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] |
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] |
List Of Cities And Towns In Estonia
The following is a list of the 47 cities and towns in Estonia. Before the Republic of Estonia became an in independent nation in 1918, many of these locations were known in the rest of the world by their German language names which were occasionally quite different from the ones used in the Estonian language. During the 1944–1991 Soviet occupation of Estonia, placenames were transliterated into Russian (Cyrillic alphabet) in the Soviet central government's documents, which in turn lead to the use of several incorrect back-transliterations from Russian (Cyrillic) alphabet into English (and other Latin alphabets) in some English-language maps and texts during the second half of the 20th century (for example, incorrect ''Pyarnu'', ''Vilyandi'', ''Pylva'', instead of the correct Pärnu, Viljandi, Põlva). Tallinn is the capital and the most populous city of Estonia. There are 46 other ''linn'', i.e. cities and towns in Estonia (as of 2022). The Estonian word ''linn'' means both "a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
