''Tarto maa rahva Näddali-Leht'' was a newspaper published in

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in 1806. The first periodical publication in

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was ''

Lühhike öppetus ''Lühhike öppetus'' (Estonian for ''Brief Instruction''), by modern orthography 'Lühike õpetus', was the first periodical publication in Estonian. Edited by Dr. Peter Ernst Wilde and printed for a short while in 1766–1767, it described ...

'' (1766–1767), but ''Tarto maa rahva Näddali-Leht'' has been considered as the first newspaper published in that language. A total of 39 issues were printed. At the time Estonia was under Russian rule and

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forbid the publishing of this newspaper in the end of 1806 and let all of the papers to be destroyed.

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