Vastseliina ( vro, Vahtsõliina) 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
Võru Parish
Võru Parish ( et, Võru vald; vro, Võro vald) is a rural municipality of Estonia, in Võru County
Võru County ( et, Võru maakond or ''Võrumaa''; vro, Võro maakund) is a county in southern Estonia. It is bordered by Valga County and Pà ...
,
Võru County
Võru County ( et, Võru maakond or ''Võrumaa''; vro, Võro maakund) is a county in southern Estonia. It is bordered by Valga County and Põlva County and is the only Estonian county bordering two countries - Latvia ( Alūksne Municipality an ...
in southeastern
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 ...
.
Vastseliina is the birthplace of wrestler and 1924 Olympic Gold Medalist
Eduard Pütsep
Eduard Pütsep (21 October 1898 – 22 August 1960) was an Estonian wrestler. He competed in Greco-Roman wrestling in the 1920, 1924 and 1928 Olympics and won a gold medal in the bantamweight division in 1924, becoming the first Olympic champion ...
and writer and lawyer
Uido Truija
Uido Truija (born in 1944) is an Estonian lawyer and writer.
He was born in Vastseliina, Võrumaa, and graduated from Tallinn Maritime School as a shipmaster.
Uido Truija acquired his academic education in Moscow Juridical Distance Learning In ...
.
See also
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Vastseliina Castle
Vastseliina Castle ( et, Vastseliina piiskopilinnus, german: Neuhausen, Russian: ''Novgorodok'') was a castle of the Livonian Order, Bishopric of Dorpat. It was constructed by 1342 by the Landmeister Burkhard von Dreileben as part of the border ...
References
Boroughs and small boroughs in Estonia
Võru Parish
Kreis Werro
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