Tammiku () is a village in
Kose Parish
Kose Parish () is a rural municipality in northern Estonia. It is a part of Harju County. The municipality has a population of 5,737 (as of 1 January 2004) and covers an area of . The population density is 24.2 inhabitants per km2.
In October 20 ...
,
Harju County
Harju County ( or ''Harjumaa''), is one of the fifteen counties of Estonia. It is situated in northern Estonia, on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland, and borders Lääne-Viru County to the east, Järva County to the southeast, Rapla Count ...
in northern
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 ...
. Tammiku was the site of
a 1994 unintentional disturbance of
radiocaesium which resulted in one human fatality.
Name
Tammiku was mentioned in written records as ''Tammick'' in 1637 and ''Tammiko mois'' in 1782, both referring to the manor there. The name (in the genitive case) comes from the common noun ''tammik'' 'oak forest', referring to the local vegetation.
References
Villages in Harju County
Kreis Harrien
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