Mahtra is a village in
Rapla Parish
Rapla Parish ( et, Rapla vald) is an Estonian municipality located in Rapla County. It has a population of 13,193 (as of 1 January 2019) and an area of 859 km2.
Settlements
;Town:
Rapla
;Small boroughs:
Alu - Hagudi - Kaiu - Kuusiku
;Vill ...
,
Rapla County
Rapla County ( et, Rapla maakond or ''Raplamaa'') is one of the fifteen counties of Estonia. It is situated in the western part of the country and borders Järva County to the east, Pärnu County to the south, Lääne County to the west, and Har ...
,
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 92 (as of 1 January 2010).
Between 1991 and 2017 (until the administrative reform of Estonian municipalities) the village was located in
Juuru Parish
Juuru Parish ( et, Juuru vald) is a former Estonian municipality located in Rapla County. It had a population of 1,627 (as of 31 March 2006) and an area of 152.4 km².
In 2017, Juuru Parish was merged into Rapla Parish.
Settlements
Juuru P ...
.
In 1858 a peasant insurgency called the
Mahtra War
Mahtra War ( et, Mahtra sõda) was a peasant insurgency at the Mahtra estate (now in Rapla County, 60 km from Tallinn) in Estonia, in the then Russian Empire in May–July 1858.
The revolt was suppressed using the regular army, 14 peasants w ...
took place at the Mahtra Manor.
References
Villages in Rapla County
Kreis Harrien
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