Kallavere is a village in

Jõelähtme Parish Jõelähtme Parish ( et, Jõelähtme vald) is a rural municipality in Harju County, north-western Estonia. It had a population of 5,351 (as of 1 January 2012) and an area of , the population density is The administrative centre of Jõelähtme P ...

Harju County Harju County ( et, Harju maakond or ''Harjumaa''), is one of the fifteen counties of Estonia. It is situated in Northern Estonia, on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland, and borders Lääne-Viru County to the east, Järva County to the sou ...

in northern

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's located about northeast of

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 ' ...

, just east of Kallavere, the main part the town of

Maardu Maardu (german: Maart) is a town and a municipality in Harju County, Estonia. It is part of Tallinn metropolitan area. The town covers an area of 22.76 km² and has a population of 16,170 (as of 1 January 2021). The Port of Muuga, the l ...

. Kallavere village has a population of 142 (as of 1 January 2010). The village is entirely located on the

Rebala Heritage Reserve Rebala Heritage Reserve is a heritage conservation area in Jõelähtme Parish, east of Estonia's capital, Tallinn. It covers around 70 square kilometres and contains more than 300 archaeological remains, most of which are prehistoric stone-cist ...

. Kallavere was first mentioned in the

Danish Census Book The Danish Census Book or the Danish book of land taxation ( la, Liber Census Daniæ), ( da, Kong Valdemars Jordebog) dates from the 13th century and consists of a number of separate manuscripts. The original manuscripts are now housed in the Da ...

in 1241. But it's also possible that Kallavere was already mentioned in 1154 by al-Idrisi as ''Qlwry''. In the 1950s a new housing estate was built on the former lands of Kallavere village on the western part which administratively went under the rule of the town

but also bears the name of Kallavere. On 19 April 2010 part of the northern part of the village was detached to establish a new official village

Saviranna Saviranna ( Estonian for ''"Clay Beach"'') is a village in Jõelähtme Parish, Harju County, in northern Estonia. It's located about northeast of the town of Maardu, on the coast of the Gulf of Finland. Saviranna has a population of 53 (as of 1 ...

Notable people

Margus Metstak Margus Metstak (born June 16, 1961) is a retired Estonian professional basketball player who played mostly at the center position. Club career Early career Margus Metstak started his career at the age of 18 with Tallinn Pedagogical Institute fo ...

(born 1961), basketball player Kallavereylemine2006

References

Villages in Harju County {{Harju-geo-stub