Tonja is a village in
Setomaa Parish
Setomaa Parish () is a rural municipality of Estonia, in Võru County. It has a population of 2,849 (as of 1 January 2022) and an area of 463.1 km2. Demographics
Population in the municipality:
* 2000: 4,206
* 2011: 2,990
* 2022: 2,849
...
,
Võru County
Võru County ( or ''Võrumaa''; ) is a county in southern Estonia. It is bordered by Valga and Põlva counties, Latvia's Alūksne and Ape municipalities, and Russia's Pskov Oblast (making it the only Estonian county to border two countries) ...
in southeastern
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 ...
.
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Setu folk singer
Anne Vabarna
Anne Vabarna (21 December 1877 in Võpolsova – 7 December 1964 in Tonja, Estonia, Tonja) was a Setos, Seto singer. In her lifetime she recorded over 140,000 verses, most notably her composition of the Seto national epic 'Peko', depicting the t ...
(1877–1964) lived in Tonja village.
References
Villages in Võru County
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