Paju is a village in Valga Parish, Valga County in southern

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 6 km northeast of the town of Valga. Paju has a population of 80 (as of 2011) and an area of 9.341 km².

Paju Manor Paju () is a city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. Paju was made a city in 1997; it had previously been a county (''gun''). The city area of Paju is ,"Paju (Gyeonggi-do Province)." ''Naver Encyclopedia of Knowledge''. Naver, 2015. 4 Mar. 2016. ...

(german: Luhde-Großhof) was established in 1748 by detaching it from the

Lugaži Lugaži ( et, Luke, german: Luhde) is a village in the Valka Parish of Valka municipality in Latvia.Lugaži

Manor (''Luhde'', nowadays in Latvia). From the 1850s to the dispossession in 1919 it belonged to the Stryks. The late-classicist two-storey main building was competed around 1860. Since 1960, a nursing home is operating in the manor. Paju is best known for

Battle of Paju The Battle of Paju ( et, Paju lahing) was fought in Paju, near Valga, Estonia, on 31 January 1919 during the Estonian War of Independence. After heavy fighting, the Tartu-Valga group of the Estonian Army pushed the Red Latvian Riflemen out o ...

, one of the heaviest battles of the

Estonian War of Independence The Estonian War of Independence ( et, Vabadussõda, literally "Freedom War"), also known as the Estonian Liberation War, was a defensive campaign of the Estonian Army and its allies, most notably the United Kingdom, against the Bolshevik westwa ...

. It took place on 31 January 1919 around the manor. The result was Estonian victory over the Soviets. The

Tartu Tartu is the second largest city in Estonia after the Northern European country's political and financial capital, Tallinn. Tartu has a population of 91,407 (as of 2021). It is southeast of Tallinn and 245 kilometres (152 miles) northeast of ...

road (part of E264) passes through Paju. Also the Tartu–Valga railway is bordering Paju on its southeastern side.

Battle of Paju memorial

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Paju nursing home
Villages in Valga County Kreis Walk {{Valga-geo-stub