Puka (german: Bockenhof) is a
small borough ( et, alevik) in
Otepää Parish
Otepää Parish ( et, Otepää vald) is a rural municipality in Valga County, southern Estonia. It includes the town of Otepää.
Settlements
;Town
Otepää
;Small boroughs
Puka - Sangaste
;Villages
Ädu - Arula- Ilmjärve - Kääriku - ...
,
Valga County
Valga County ( et, Valga maakond or ''Valgamaa'') is a first-level administrative unit and one of 15 counties of Estonia. It comprises the former area of Valga District. The present-day county was created on 1 January 1990. The capital and lar ...
, 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 was the administrative centre of
Puka Parish
Puka Parish was a rural municipality of the Estonian county of Valga.
Settlements
;Small borough
Puka
;Villages
Aakre - Kähri - Kibena - Kolli - Komsi - Kuigatsi - Meegaste - Palamuste - Pedaste - Plika - Põru - Prange - Pühaste ...
until 2017. At the
2011 Census, the settlement's population was 580.
Architect
Georg Hellat
Georg Hellat (3 March 1870, Puka, Governorate of Livonia – 28 August 1943, Tallinn, Generalbezirk Estland) was an Estonian architect.
His most known masterpiece is the building of the Estonian Students' Society
The Estonian Students' So ...
(1870–1943) was born in Puka.
On 1 May 1897, a military train derailed 3 km north of Puka. 58 people were killed and 44 deeply wounded in the accident.
Gallery
File:Puka, Valga county.jpg, Puka, central part
File:Puka raudteejaama peahoone.jpg, Railway station
File:Elamu Pukas Kesk 6.jpg,
File:Apteek-elamu Pukas Kesk 8.jpg, Pharmacy-house in Puka
File:Puka keskuse veehoidla (Puka oja).jpg, Reservoir
References
External links
Puka Parish
Boroughs and small boroughs in Estonia
Kreis Dorpat
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