A report on Estonia
Country in Northern Europe.
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Latvia
53 linksCountry in the Baltic region of Northern Europe.
Country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe.
It is one of the Baltic states; and is bordered by Estonia to the north, Lithuania to the south, Russia to the east, Belarus to the southeast, and shares a maritime border with Sweden to the west.
Finland
24 linksNordic country in Northern Europe.
Nordic country in Northern Europe.
It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland across Estonia to the south.
Baltic Sea
19 linksThe Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean, enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden and the North and Central European Plain.
Lithuania
37 linksCountry in the Baltic region of Europe.
Country in the Baltic region of Europe.
The event, led by Sąjūdis, was a human chain spanning 600 km across Vilnius, Riga and Tallinn, indicating the desire of the people of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia to break away from the Soviet Union.
Tartu
17 linksTartu is the second-largest city in Estonia after the political and financial capital, Tallinn.
Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic
17 linksThe Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic (widely used abbreviation Estonian SSR; Eesti Nõukogude Sotsialistlik Vabariik, Eesti NSV; Эстонская Советская Социалистическая Республика, Эстонская ССР) was an ethnically based administrative subdivision of the former Soviet Union (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR) covering the territory of Estonia in 1940–1941 and 1944–1991.
Occupation of the Baltic states
13 linksThe Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were invaded and occupied in June 1940 by the Soviet Union, under the leadership of Stalin and auspices of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact that had been signed between Nazi Germany and the USSR immediately before the outbreak of World War II.
Livonia
16 linksHistorical region on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea.
Historical region on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea.
By the end of the 13th century, the name was extended to most of present-day Estonia and Latvia, which had been conquered during the Livonian Crusade (1193–1290) by the Livonian Brothers of the Sword.
Estonian language
12 linksFinnic language, written in the Latin script.
Finnic language, written in the Latin script.
It is the official language of Estonia and one of the official languages of the European Union, spoken natively by about 1.1 million people; 922,000 people in Estonia and 160,000 outside Estonia.