Kärde is a village in

Jõgeva Parish Jõgeva Parish () is a rural Municipalities of Estonia, municipality of Estonia, in Jõgeva County. It has a population of 12,413 (2024) and an area of 458 km2 (177 mi2). Populated places ;Towns: Jõgeva (administrative center) ;Sma ...

Jõgeva County Jõgeva County ( or ''Jõgevamaa'') is one of 15 counties of Estonia. It is situated in eastern part of the country and borders Ida-Viru County to the north-east, Lake Peipus to the east, Tartu County to the south, Viljandi County to the south-we ...

, in eastern

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 ...

. (retrieved 28 July 2021)

History

Kärde Manor was the location where the

Treaty of Cardis The Treaty of Cardis was a peace settlement made in 1661 between the Tsardom of Russia and the Swedish Empire. This particular agreement ended the Russo-Swedish War of 1656–1658. It took place in Cardis Manor (now Kärde) in Estonia. Based on ...

between

Tsardom of Russia The Tsardom of Russia, also known as the Tsardom of Moscow, was the centralized Russian state from the assumption of the title of tsar by Ivan the Terrible, Ivan IV in 1547 until the foundation of the Russian Empire by Peter the Great in 1721. ...

and

Swedish Empire The Swedish Empire or the Great Power era () was the period in Swedish history spanning much of the 17th and early 18th centuries during which Sweden became a European great power that exercised territorial control over much of the Baltic regi ...

in 1661 after the Russo-Swedish War was signed.

References

Villages in Jõgeva County Kreis Dorpat {{Jõgeva-geo-stub