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Estonia

often said to be from a Germanic source akin to east, but perhaps rather from a native name meaning "waterside dwellers." Related: Estonian.

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Estonia (disambiguation)

Estonia is a country in Northern Europe.

  • Estonia, for the current sovereign state
  • Danish Estonia, from 1206 to 1346 a dominion of Denmark in the northern part of present-day Estonia
  • Swedish Estonia, from 1561 a dominion of Sweden, constituted by the northern part of present-day Estonia
  • Governorate of Estonia, from 1796 to 1918 (previously called Reval Governorate, 1719-1796) a territory of the Russian Empire in the northern part of present-day Estonia
  • Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, from 1940 to 1991 a Republic of the Soviet Union
  • Estonia (European Parliament constituency)

Estonia may also refer to:

  • MS Estonia, a ship that sank in the Baltic Sea in 1994, claiming 852 lives
  • "Estonia" (song), a song by the British rock band Marillion
  • Estonia (piano), a piano brand
  • Estonia Piano Factory, manufacturers of the Estonia piano
  • Estonia Theatre, an opera house and concert hall in Tallinn
  • Estonia (race car), a race car brand
  • 1541 Estonia, an asteroid
  • Estonia, International Estonian Philatelic Society

In geography:

  • Estonia, Abkhazia, an Estonian village in Abkhazia, Georgia
  • Estonia, Altai Krai, an Estonian village in Altai Krai, Russia
  • Estonia Mine, an oil shale mine in Ida-Viru County, Estonia
  • Estonia (peak), a peak in the Pamir Mountains
Estonia (ship)
  1. redirect MS Estonia
Estonia (race car)

Estonias are open wheel racing cars manufactured in Estonia. The first model Estonia 1 was built in 1958. Altogether there are about 1300 cars. The brand was in western Europe as TARK, Tallinna Autode Remondi Katsetehas. Later the factory was privatized and renamed "Kavor Motorsport".

Estonia (European Parliament constituency)

In European elections, Estonia is a constituency of the European Parliament, currently represented by six MEPs. It covers the member state of Estonia. The elections uses the D'Hondt method with an open list.

Estonia

Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia (343 km), and to the east by Lake Peipus and Russia (338.6 km). Across the Baltic Sea lies Sweden in the west and Finland in the north. The territory of Estonia consists of a mainland and 2,222 islands and islets in the Baltic Sea, covering of land, and is influenced by a humid continental climate.

The territory of Estonia has been inhabited since at least 6,500 BCE, with Finno-Ugric speakers – the linguistic ancestors of modern Estonians – arriving no later than around 1800 BCE. Following centuries of successive Teutonic, Danish, Swedish, and Russian rule, Estonians experienced a national awakening that culminated in independence from the Russian Empire towards the end of World War I. During World War II, Estonia was occupied by the Soviet Union in 1940, then Nazi Germany a year later and again annexed by the Soviets in 1944, after which it was reconstituted as the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1988, during the Singing Revolution, the Estonian SSR issued the Estonian Sovereignty Declaration in defiance of the illegal Soviet rule, and independence was restored on the night of 20 August 1991, during the 1991 attempted coup by the Soviets.

Modern Estonia is a democratic parliamentary republic divided into fifteen counties, with its capital and largest city being Tallinn. With a population of 1.3 million, it is one of the least-populous member states of the European Union, Eurozone, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ( NATO), the OECD and the Schengen Area.

Ethnic Estonians are a Finnic people, sharing close cultural ties with their northern neighbour, Finland, and the official language, Estonian, is a Finno-Ugric language closely related to Finnish and the Sami languages, and distantly to Hungarian.

Estonia is a developed country with an advanced, high-income economy that is among the fastest growing in the EU. It ranks very high in the Human Development Index, and performs favourably in measurements of economic freedom, civil liberties, education, and press freedom.

Usage examples of "estonia".

Yes, that was him, Konstantin Poeg, the last birdseed merchant in all of Estonia.

Soviets took eastern Poland, Moldavia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Albania.

Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Albania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, East Germany, Yugoslavia, North Korea, Cuba, South Yemen, Congo-Brazzaville, North Vietnam, Guinea-Bissau, Cambodia, Laos, South Vietnam, Ethiopia, Angola, Mozambique, Nicaragua, the Seychelles, Grenada, and Afghanistan.

Hitler to divide up Poland and to obtain a free hand to gobble up Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Bessarabia was not known outside Berlin and Moscow, but it would soon become evident from Soviet acts, and it would shock most of the world even at this late date.

Stalin expressly indicated Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, but did not mention Finland.

He was instantly abandoning not only Estonia but Latvia, both of which, he had agreed in the Nazi-Soviet Pact, belonged in the Soviet sphere of interest.

During the next couple of days similar Soviet ultimatums were dispatched to Latvia and Estonia, after which they were similarly overrun by the Red Army.

Anglo-French-Russian guarantee of Latvia and Estonia, which bordered on the Soviet Union, Germany had hastily signed nonaggression pacts with these two Baltic States on June 7.

Estonia was a small country, Tallinn a small town, the places the couple could run to or hide in were limited.

She scrolled down a Web page about a tsarevitch pretender who supposedly had come to Washington State via Estonia after escaping the bullets of the Bolsheviks.

Sure, there were little telltale signs like the Soviets marching through Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Mongolia, Turkmenia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kirgizia, Poland, Moldavia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Albania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, East Germany, Yugoslavia, North Korea, Cuba, South Yemen, Congo-Brazzaville, North Vietnam, Guinea-Bissau, Cambodia, Laos, South Vietnam, Ethiopia, Angola, Mozambique, Nicaragua, the Seychelles, Grenada, and Afghanistan.

Forty correspondents in the hall came from Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Georgia, and Armenia.

In fact his plan depended on the presence of nightlife here— Estonia is livelier than most of the country—but the pier was derelict, as his briefers said it would be.

Naturally, predictably, the Canadian airdrops began in Estonia, Byelorussia, Azerbaijan.

All of which amounted to a steel wall of armament around Eastern Poland, Byelorussia, the Ukraine and the Baltic states of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvianow earmarked as a new circle in hell.