Revala (also ''Rävälä'', la, Revalia,
by
Henry of Livonia ''Revele'', by
Danish Census Book ''Revælæ'') was an
Ancient Estonia
Ancient Estonia refers to a period covering History of Estonia from the middle of the 8th millennium BC until the conquest and subjugation of the local Finnic tribes in the first quarter of the 13th century during the Teutonic and Danish North ...
n county. It was located in northern Estonia, by the
Gulf of Finland
The Gulf of Finland ( fi, Suomenlahti; et, Soome laht; rus, Фи́нский зали́в, r=Finskiy zaliv, p=ˈfʲinskʲɪj zɐˈlʲif; sv, Finska viken) is the easternmost arm of the Baltic Sea. It extends between Finland to the north and E ...
and corresponded roughly to the present territory of
Harju County. It was conquered by the
Danish in 1219 during the
Estonian Crusade.
It also contained the town of Lindanise, nowadays known as
Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.
The Icelandic ''
Njal's saga''—composed after 1270, but describing events between the years 960 and 1020—mentions an event that occurred somewhere in the area of what is now Tallinn and calls the place ''Rafala''. The
toponym, ''Rafala'', was probably a derivation of ''Rävala'', or ''Revala'', or some other variant of the locally used Estonian-language name for the adjacent
medieval Estonian county.
Parishes
* Rebala
* Ocrielæ
* Vomentakæ (Võhmataga)
See also
*
Battle of Lyndanisse
*
Danish Estonia
*
History of Estonia
*
Harria
*
List of Estonian rulers
*
Livonian Crusade
*
St. George's Night Uprising
Saint George's Night Uprising in 1343–1345 ( et, Jüriöö ülestõus, ) was an unsuccessful attempt by the indigenous Estonian population in the Duchy of Estonia, the Bishopric of Ösel-Wiek, and the insular territories of the State of the T ...
References
Ancient counties of Estonia
Harju County
States and territories established in the 9th century
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