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Institut Français D'Estonie
The French Institute of Estonia (, , IFE) was founded in 1992 in Tallinn to promote cultural, scientific, academic, and language cooperation between France and Estonia. Overview IFE is part of the French cultural network. Since its creation, the Institute has been located at Kuninga, 4, in Tallinn Old Town, Tallinn. The Institute was inaugurated on 14 May 1992 by Roland Dumas, Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (France), French Minister of State and Foreign Affairs, in the presence of Jaan Manitski, Jaan Minitski, Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Märt Kubo, Ministry of Culture (Estonia), Minister of Culture, and Rein Loik, Minister of National Education of the Republic of Estonia. Activities Cultural cooperation IFE sets up cultural and artistic cooperations, particularly in the fields of contemporary music, theatre, cinema, design, architecture, and urban planning . IFE organizes the Night of Ideas annually (Nuit des idées in French) under the patronage of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tallinn
Tallinn is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Estonia, most populous city of Estonia. Situated on a Tallinn Bay, bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, it has a population of (as of 2025) and administratively lies in the Harju County, Harju ''Counties of Estonia, maakond'' (county). Tallinn is the main governmental, financial, industrial, and cultural centre of Estonia. It is located northwest of the country's second largest city, Tartu, however, only south of Helsinki, Finland; it is also west of Saint Petersburg, Russia, north of Riga, Latvia, and east of Stockholm, Sweden. From the 13th century until the first half of the 20th century, Tallinn was known in most of the world by variants of its other historical Names of Tallinn in different languages, name Reval. “Reval” received Lübeck law, Lübeck city rights in 1248; however, the earliest evidence of human settlement in the area dates back nearly 5,000 years. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
