Tsirguliina is a
small borough
The following is a list of boroughs ( et, alevid) and small boroughs ( et, alevikud) in Estonia.
Boroughs
*Aegviidu
* Järva-Jaani
* Järvakandi
* Kiili
*Kohila
*Kohtla-Nõmme
* Lavassaare
*Märjamaa
*Paikuse
* Pärnu-Jaagupi
* Tootsi
* Vändra ...
(') in
Valga Parish
Valga Parish ( et, Valga vald) is a rural municipality in Valga County. It includes the town of Valga.https://www.valga.ee/ (accessed 4 March 2020)
Settlements Town
* Valga
Boroughs
* Tsirguliina
* Õru
* Laatre
Villages
* Hargla
* ...
,
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 ...
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, an ...
, located about 13 km northeast of the town of
Valga.
With the most important institutions and facilities like high school, kindergarten, civic centre, library, post office and medical office, it is the one of the more populous boroughs in the parish. The local government is located 3 km east in
Laatre
Laatre is a small borough (') in Valga County in southern Estonia, located about 16 km northeast of the town of Estonia. Between 1992 and 2017, until the 2017 administrative reform of Estonian local governments, Laatre was the administrativ ...
.
Tsirguliina was established around the
Sangaste
Sangaste ( vro, Sangastõ) is a small borough ( et, alevik) in Otepää Parish, Valga County, southern Estonia. Sangaste has a population of 228 (as of 1 January 2010).
Sangaste castle
Sangaste castle or manor (german: Schloss Sagnitz) traces i ...
station on
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 ...
–
Valga railway shortly after its opening in 1887. Nowadays the train station is still used by passenger traffic.
Tsirguliina borders the
Väike Emajõgi
The Väike Emajõgi is a river in southern Estonia that drains into Lake Võrtsjärv
A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, surrounded by land, and distinct from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drai ...
River on its southern side. The name means "bird's town" in
South Estonian
South Estonian, spoken in south-eastern Estonia, encompasses the Tartu, Mulgi, Võro and Seto varieties. There is no academic consensus on its status, as some linguists consider South Estonian a dialect group of Estonian whereas other linguist ...
.
Historian
Tiit Rosenberg
Tiit Rosenberg (born 26 December 1946, in Tsirguliina) is an Estonian historian and professor of Estonian History in University of Tartu. In 1996–2008 was he also chairman of Õpetatud Eesti Selts (The Learned Estonian Society).
Rosenberg st ...
(born 1946) was born in Tsirguliina.
References
External links
Unofficial website
Boroughs and small boroughs in Estonia
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