Crossword clues for tallinn
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Estonian capital, from Old Estonian (Finnic) tan-linn "Danish fort," from tan "Danish" + linn "fort, castle." Founded 1219 by Danish king Valdemar II.
Wikipedia
Tallinn ( or , ; names in other languages) is the capital and largest city of Estonia. It is situated on the northern coast of the country, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, south of Helsinki, east of Stockholm and west of Saint Petersburg. From the 13th century until 1918 (and briefly during the Nazi occupation of Estonia from 1941 to 1944), the city was known as Reval. Tallinn occupies an area of and has a population of 440,950. Approximately 32% of Estonia's total population lives in Tallinn.
Tallinn was founded in 1248, but the earliest human settlements are over five thousand years old, making it one of the oldest capital cities of Northern Europe. Due to its strategic location, the city became a major trade hub, especially from the 14th to the 16th century, when it grew in importance as part of the Hanseatic League.
Tallinn's Old Town is one of the best preserved medieval cities in Europe and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Tallinn is the major political, financial, cultural and educational center of Estonia. Often dubbed as the Silicon Valley of Europe, it has the highest number of startups per person in Europe and is a birthplace of many international companies including Skype. Providing to the global cybersecurity it is the home to the NATO Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence. It is ranked as a global city and has been listed among the top 10 digital cities in the world. The city was a European Capital of Culture for 2011, along with Turku in Finland.
Usage examples of "tallinn".
By the time the Germans advanced on Tallinn, Anna Grenko was fifteen years old.
I know the frequencies of the Russian beacons and I can use them for more exact navigational reference when we get near Tallinn so I can pick up the drop reference.
Both of them would be based pretty much the same distance from Tallinn as the crow flies.
He could have done with being back in the mess in Tallinn toasting his feet at the stove.
Six-more minutes to go and he would be ready to set a course home for Tallinn and base.
He could call up Tallinn radar, but those lazy shits hardly ever answered in lousy weather, or the reception was too bad to decipher what they were saying.
A sparkle of lights that was Tallinn glowed in the distance off to his left.
A Mig is standing by at Vnukovo to fly you to Tallinn as soon as the weather clears.
The visibility at Tallinn airport was dangerously bad and the landing had been frightening, the lights of the runway only visible for the last one hundred meters.
The aircraft was being tracked here in Tallinn, from the radio tower in St.
Estonia was a small country, Tallinn a small town, the places the couple could run to or hide in were limited.
You chose a bad time coming to Tallinn in winter, but I do hope your honeymoon will be pleasant.
The ancient citadel of Tallinn had once been part of the old Hanseatic League, an ancient port and trading fortress and home to prosperous merchants and craftsmen, until the Russian Tsar had invited himself in and turned it into a colony.
That explains why the army and militia are swarming all over Tallinn like flies on shit.
Something about the major at the checkpoint in Tallinn had made them both uneasy and unwilling to delay getting to Leningrad.