Purtse is a village in

Lüganuse Parish Lüganuse Parish () is a municipality of Ida-Viru County in northern Estonia. As of 1 January 2015, it had a population of 2,941. In October 2013, the neighbouring Maidla Parish and the town of Püssi were merged into Lüganuse Parish. Settleme ...

Ida-Viru County Ida-Viru County ( et, Ida-Viru maakond or ''Ida-Virumaa'') is one of 15 counties of Estonia. It is the most north-eastern part of the country. The county contains large deposits of oil shale - the main mineral mined in Estonia. Oil shale is used ...

in northeastern

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 ...

. Purtse is best known as the location of 16th century Purtse Castle.

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File:Purtse jõgi.jpg,

Purtse River The Purtse River is a river in Estonia in Ida-Viru and Lääne-Viru counties. The river is 51.2 km long, and its basin size is 811 km2. It discharges into the Gulf of Finland. See also *List of rivers of Estonia Rivers of Estonia ar ...

seen from the

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 ' ...

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Narva Narva, russian: Нарва is a municipality and city in Estonia. It is located in Ida-Viru County, Ida-Viru county, at the Extreme points of Estonia, eastern extreme point of Estonia, on the west bank of the Narva (river), Narva river which ...

highway ( E20) bridge in Purtse. File:Purtse rand.jpg, Purtse in the 1920s.

References

Villages in Ida-Viru County Lüganuse Parish Kreis Wierland {{IdaViru-geo-stub