Keskküla, Rapla County
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

Keskküla is a village in
Märjamaa Parish Märjamaa Parish () is an Estonian Municipalities of Estonia, municipality located in Rapla County. It had a population of 7,015 (as of November 2012) and an area of 1,164 km2 (336.54 mi2). Märjamaa Parish was the biggest municipalit ...
,
Rapla County Rapla County ( or ''Raplamaa'') is one of the fifteen counties of Estonia. It is situated in the north-western part of the country and borders Järva County to the east, Pärnu County to the south, Lääne County to the west, and Harju County to ...
in western
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 Ru ...
.


Name

Keskküla was attested in written sources as ''Keskyll'' in 1712 and ''Keskül'' in 1798; in addition, the villagers ''Keskell Ado'', ''Kesküll Hindrich'', and ''Kesküll May'' (referring to men belonging to ) were attested in 1726. The name literally means 'middle village'.


References

Villages in Rapla County Kreis Wiek {{Rapla-geo-stub