Tarvastu is a village in
Viljandi Parish
Viljandi Parish ( et, Viljandi vald) is a rural municipality of Viljandi County, Estonia. It is located around the town of Viljandi, but does not include it.
Viljandi Parish was established by merging four municipalities: Paistu, Pärsti, Saa ...
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Viljandi County
Viljandi County ( et, Viljandi maakond or ''Viljandimaa''; german: Kreis Fellin) is one of 15 counties of Estonia. It is located in southern Estonia bordering Pärnu, Järva, Jõgeva, Tartu and Valga counties.
History
Viljandimaa, under the ...
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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 a kilometer east of
Mustla. Tarvastu has a population of 99 (as of 2006).
The village is passed by the
Tarvastu River and the
Viljandi
Viljandi (, german: Fellin, sv, Fellin) is a town and municipality in southern Estonia with a population of 17,407 in 2019. It is the capital of Viljandi County and is geographically located between two major Estonian cities, Pärnu and Tartu. ...
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Rõngu road (nr 52). Estonian second largest lake
Võrtsjärv also shares a small border with the village's territory.
Tarvastu is the birthplace of Estonian wrestler
Martin Klein (1884-1947) who won a silver medal at the
1912 Summer Olympics.
Gallery
File:Tarvastu kirik 14661-1.jpg, Tarvastu church in a nearby Porsa village
File:Tarwast Ordensburg Mauern 02.JPG, Ruins of Tarvastu Castle in nearby Sooviku
File:Tarvastu ordulinnus 2010.JPG,
File:Tarvastu kabel.JPG, Chapel near the ruins
References
Villages in Viljandi County
Kreis Fellin
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