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Lindamägi is a park in Tallinn, Estonia. The park is located on the Swedish Bastion. Swedish Bastion was built in 1690s. In 1850s, the Swedish Bastion was changed to the park. In 1920, the bronze sculpture ''Linda Linda is an English feminine given name, derived from the Spanish word , meaning "pretty." Linda may also refer to: Names * Linda (given name), a female given name (including a list of people and fictional characters so named) * Linda (singer) ...'' was erected in the park. The sculpture was made by August Weizenberg. The park is named after this sculpture. References Parks in Tallinn {{Tallinn-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Linda is an English feminine given name, derived from the Spanish word , meaning "pretty." Linda may also refer to: Names * Linda (given name), a female given name (including a list of people and fictional characters so named) * Linda (singer) (born 1977), stage name of Svetlana Geiman, a Russian singer * Miss Linda, long-time manager and wife of Welsh wrestler Adrian Street Surname * Anita Linda (born Alice Lake, 1924–2020), Filipino film actress * Bogusław Linda (born 1952), Polish actor * La Prieta Linda (1933–2021), Mexican singer and actress * Sarah Linda (born 1987), British actress and model * Solomon Linda (1909–1962), South African Zulu musician, singer and composer who wrote the song "Mbube" which later became "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" Places * Linda, Tasmania, Australia, a ghost town * Linda Valley, Tasmania * Linda, Georgia, a village in Abkhazia * Linda, Bashkortostan, Russia, a village * Linda, California, United States, a census-designated place * Lin ... [...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] |
Estonia
Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Russia. The territory of Estonia consists of the mainland, the larger islands of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa, and over 2,300 other islands and islets on the east coast of the Baltic Sea. Its capital Tallinn and Tartu are the two largest List of cities and towns in Estonia, urban areas. The Estonian language is the official language and the first language of the Estonians, majority of its population of nearly 1.4 million. Estonia is one of the least populous members of the European Union and NATO. Present-day Estonia has been inhabited since at least 9,000 BC. The Ancient Estonia#Early Middle Ages, medieval indigenous population of Estonia was one of the last pagan civilisations in Europe to adopt Christianity following the Northern Crusades in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastuse AS
Estonian Encyclopaedia Publishers () was an Estonian publisher which published reference literature (like encyclopedias, atlases) and popular science literature. As of 2009, publisher's main shareholders were Hardo Aasmäe (owned 25.6%), Jüri Ott (owned 20.4%), and Ülo Kaevats (owned 12.0%). In 2011, the publisher went bankrupt. However, the bankruptcy proceedings got stuck because the owner of the publishing house's last office, Ülemiste City, confiscated the property in the company's office and sold it to cover the 9,000-euro rent debt. Bankruptcy administrator Tiina Mitt estimated its value at over 4.3 million euros. The location of sold documents, author contracts and books under editing is unknown. A part of the EE archive was also lost, a criminal investigation was initiated. Notable publications *1999 "100 great Estonians of the 20th century" *2004 "A ja O" References Book publishing companies of Estonia {{Estonia-company-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda (sculpture)
''Linda'' is a monument created by the sculptor August Weizenberg. It was completed in 1920, and it stands on Lindamägi, Linda Hill () in Tallinn, Estonia. It is registered as cultural heritage. Description The bronze figural part of the monument depicts a well-known episode from the Estonian national epic ''Kalevipoeg'', in which the grieving Linda (Estonian mythology), Linda, carrying a stone to Kalevi (mythology), Kalev's grave, has sat down to rest on the stone. The sculpture stands on a faceted granite plinth reminiscent of a tall cliff. The Linda monument has become a national symbol and a place where victims of deportation are commemorated in Tallinn. In front of it is a granite plaque with the words of the poet Marie Under: ''Ikka mõtlen neile, kes siit viidi ... Taeva poole karjub nende äng'' (I still think of those that were taken from here ... Their anguish screams to the sky). History Weizenberg was interested in Estonian mythology, and he wanted to erect a stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Weizenberg
August Ludwig Weizenberg (6 April 1837 – 22 November 1921) was an Estonian sculptor. Life Weizenberg was born in the inn of Ritsike, near Kanepi, southeast Estonia. Weizenberg's father was a shoemaker and he learnt how to carve wood in Erastvere from 1858 to 1862. During the 1860s, he worked as a cabinetmaker in Frankfurt and Berlin. Thanks to a sponsorship from Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, he travelled to Saint Petersburg, where he was trained by Alexander von Bock. He later studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts, and from 1870 to 1873 at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. From 1873 to 1890, he lived in Rome. Works * ''Linda (sculpture), Linda'', 1920 References * Jüri Hain: ''Eesti kunsti suurus ja viletsus. 150 aastat August Weizenbergi sünnist.'' In: ''Looming'' Nr 4 (1987), S. 528–539 * Heini Paas: ''August Weizenberg 1837–1921.'' Tallinn 1999. External links kesknadal.eepilt.delfi.ee 1837 births 1921 deaths People from Kanepi Parish People from K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
