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67 relations: Alempois, Area, Bishopric of Ösel–Wiek, Bishopric of Dorpat, Capital city, Coats of arms of Estonian Counties, County, County Governors of Estonia, Denmark, Estonia, Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, Flags of Estonian counties, Government of Estonia, Haapsalu, Harju County, Hiiu County, Ida-Viru County, Interior ministry, ISO 3166-2:EE, Järva County, Jõgeva, Jõgeva County, Jõhvi, Kärdla, Kuressaare, Lääne County, Lääne-Viru County, Livonian Chronicle of Henry, Livonian Order, Livonian War, Mõhu, Municipalities of Estonia, Northern Crusades, Northern Wars, Nurmekund, Oblast, Paide, Paldiski, Pärnu, Pärnu County, Põlva, Põlva County, Petseri County, Poland, Population, Population density, Rakvere, Ranked list of Estonian counties, Rapla, Rapla County, ..., Revala, Saare County, Sakala County, Sweden, Tallinn, Tartu, Tartu County, Ugandi County, Vaiga, Valga County, Valga, Estonia, Võru, Võru County, Viljandi, Viljandi County, Virumaa, Voivodeship. Expand index (17 more) »
Alempois
Alempois (Alumbus) was a small independent landlocked country in ancient Estonia, bordered by Harjumaa, Järvamaa, Nurmekund, Sakala, and Läänemaa.
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Area
Area is the quantity that expresses the extent of a two-dimensional figure or shape, or planar lamina, in the plane.
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Bishopric of Ösel–Wiek
The Bishopric of Ösel–Wiek (Saare-Lääne piiskopkond; Bistum Ösel–Wiek; Low German: Bisdom Ösel–Wiek; contemporary Ecclesia Osiliensis) was a Roman Catholic diocese and semi-independent prince-bishopric (parto of Terra Mariana, i.e. Livonia) in the Holy Roman Empire, covering what are now Saare, Hiiu and Lääne counties of Estonia.
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Bishopric of Dorpat
The Bishopric of Dorpat (Tartu piiskopkond; Bisdom Dorpat; Ecclesia Tarbatensis) was a medieval prince-bishopric, i;e; both a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church and a temporal principality ruled by the bishop of the diocese.
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Capital city
A capital city (or simply capital) is the municipality exercising primary status in a country, state, province, or other administrative region, usually as its seat of government.
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Coats of arms of Estonian Counties
The coats of arms of the 15 counties of Estonia are presented below.
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County
A county is a geographical region of a country used for administrative or other purposes,Chambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations.
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County Governors of Estonia
The Governor (maavanem) is the leader of a county (maakond) in Estonia.
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Denmark
Denmark (Danmark), officially the Kingdom of Denmark,Kongeriget Danmark,.
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Estonia
Estonia (Eesti), officially the Republic of Estonia (Eesti Vabariik), is a sovereign state in Northern Europe.
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Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic
The Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic (Estonian SSR or ESSR; Eesti Nõukogude Sotsialistlik Vabariik ENSV; Эстонская Советская Социалистическая Республика ЭССР, Estonskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika ESSR), also known as Soviet Estonia or Estonia was an unrecognized republic of the Soviet Union, administered by a subordinate of the Government of the Soviet Union.
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Flags of Estonian counties
The flags of the 15 counties of Estonia are all white and green, with the coat of arms of the respective county on the white part.
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Government of Estonia
The Government of the Republic of Estonia (Estonian: Vabariigi Valitsus) is the cabinet of Estonia.
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Haapsalu
Haapsalu (Swedish and German: Hapsal) is a seaside resort town located on the west coast of Estonia.
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Harju County
Harju County (Harju maakond), or Harjumaa (Harrien or Rugel, Harria) is one of the 15 counties of Estonia.
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Hiiu County
Hiiu County (Hiiu maakond), or Hiiumaa, is one of 15 counties of Estonia, being the smallest county both in terms of area and population.
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Ida-Viru County
Ida-Viru County (Ida-Viru maakond), or Ida-Virumaa, is one of 15 counties of Estonia.
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Interior ministry
An interior ministry (sometimes ministry of internal affairs or ministry of home affairs) is a government ministry typically responsible for policing, emergency management, national security, registration, supervision of local governments, conduct of elections, public administration and immigration matters.
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ISO 3166-2:EE
ISO 3166-2:EE is the entry for Estonia in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.
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Järva County
Järva County (Järva maakond), or Järvamaa (Jerwen, Jervia), is one of 15 counties of Estonia.
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Jõgeva
Jõgeva (Laisholm) is a small town in Estonia with a population of around 6000 people.
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Jõgeva County
Jõgeva County (Jõgeva maakond), or Jõgevamaa, is one of 15 counties of Estonia.
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Jõhvi
Jõhvi (Jewe) is a town in north-eastern Estonia, and the capital of Ida-Viru County.
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Kärdla
Kärdla (Kärrdal, Kertel) is the only town on the island of Hiiumaa, Estonia.
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Kuressaare
Kuressaare, also known as Arensburg, is a town and a municipality on Saaremaa island in Estonia.
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Lääne County
Lääne County (Lääne maakond), or Läänemaa (literally "Western land"; Wiek, Rotalia), is one of 15 counties of Estonia.
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Lääne-Viru County
Lääne-Viru County (Lääne-Viru maakond), or Lääne-Virumaa, is one of 15 counties of Estonia.
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Livonian Chronicle of Henry
The Livonian Chronicle of Henry (Heinrici Cronicon Lyvoniae) or Henry's chronicle of Livonia is a document in Latin describing historic events in Livonia (roughly corresponding to today's inland Estonia and north of Latvia) and surrounding areas from 1180 to 1227.
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Livonian Order
The Livonian Order was an autonomous branch of the Teutonic Order, formed in 1237.
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Livonian War
The Livonian War (1558–1583) was fought for control of Old Livonia (in the territory of present-day Estonia and Latvia), when the Tsardom of Russia faced a varying coalition of Denmark–Norway, the Kingdom of Sweden, and the Union (later Commonwealth) of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland.
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Mõhu
Mõhu was a small landlocked ancient Estonian county in the central part of the territory of Estonia.
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Municipalities of Estonia
A municipality (omavalitsus, plural omavalitsused) is the smallest administrative subdivision of Estonia.
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Northern Crusades
The Northern Crusades or Baltic Crusades were religious wars undertaken by Catholic Christian military orders and kingdoms, primarily against the pagan Baltic, Finnic and West Slavic peoples around the southern and eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, and to a lesser extent also against Orthodox Christian Slavs (East Slavs).
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Northern Wars
Northern Wars is a term used for a series of wars fought in northern and northeastern Europe in the 16th and 17th century.
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Nurmekund
Nurmekund (Low German: Nurmegunde) was a small independent country (ancient Estonian county) on the north coast of Lake Võrtsjärv in Central Estonia, bordered by Sakala, Alempois, Järvamaa, Mõhu, and Ugandi.
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Oblast
An oblast is a type of administrative division of Belarus, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Ukraine, and the former Soviet Union and Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
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Paide
Paide (Weißenstein) is the capital of Järva County, Estonia.
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Paldiski
Paldiski is a town and Baltic Sea port situated on the Pakri peninsula of north-western Estonia.
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Pärnu
Pärnu (Pernau) is the fourth-largest city in Estonia.
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Pärnu County
Pärnu County (Pärnu maakond), or Pärnumaa (Kreis Pernau), is one of 15 counties of Estonia.
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Põlva
Põlva is a town in southeastern Estonia, the capital of Põlva County, and the centre of Põlva Parish.
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Põlva County
Põlva County (Põlva maakond), or Põlvamaa, is one of 15 counties of Estonia.
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Petseri County
Petseri County (Petserimaa) was a county of Estonia established in 1918.
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Poland
Poland (Polska), officially the Republic of Poland (Rzeczpospolita Polska), is a country located in Central Europe.
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Population
In biology, a population is all the organisms of the same group or species, which live in a particular geographical area, and have the capability of interbreeding.
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Population density
Population density (in agriculture: standing stock and standing crop) is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume; it is a quantity of type number density.
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Rakvere
Rakvere (Wesenberg or Wesenbergh) is a town in northern Estonia and the county seat of Lääne-Viru County, 20 km south of the Gulf of Finland.
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Ranked list of Estonian counties
Category:Counties of Estonia Estonia Counties, Ranked list.
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Rapla
Rapla is a town in central Estonia, the administrative centre of Rapla County and Rapla Parish.
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Rapla County
Rapla County (Rapla maakond), or Raplamaa, is one of 15 counties of Estonia.
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Revala
Revala (also Rävälä, Revalia, by Henry of Livonia Revele, by Danish Census Book Revælæ) was an Ancient Estonian county.
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Saare County
Saare County (Saare maakond), or Saaremaa; (Oesel; Ösel) is one of 15 counties of Estonia.
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Sakala County
Sakala County (Estonian: Sakala, Latin: Saccalia) was an ancient Estonian county first mentioned in print by Henry of Latvia in the beginning of the 13th Century.
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Sweden
Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.
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Tallinn
Tallinn (or,; names in other languages) is the capital and largest city of Estonia.
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Tartu
Tartu (South Estonian: Tarto) is the second largest city of Estonia, after Estonia's political and financial capital Tallinn.
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Tartu County
Tartu County (Tartu maakond), or Tartumaa (Kreis Dorpat), is one of 15 counties of Estonia.
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Ugandi County
Ugandi (Latin: Ungannia or Ugaunia; Ugaunija; Low German: Uggn) was an independent county between the east coast of Lake Võrtsjärv and west coast of Lake Pskov, bordered by Vaiga, Mõhu, Nurmekund, Sakala, Tālava, and The Principality of Pskov.
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Vaiga
Vaiga was a small landlocked ancient Estonian county in the eastern part of the territory of Estonia.
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Valga County
Valga County (Valga maakond), or Valgamaa is the first-level administrative unit in Estonia and one of 15 counties of Estonia.
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Valga, Estonia
Valga (Walk) is a town in southern Estonia and the capital of Valga County.
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Võru
Võru (Võro; Werro; Выру (Vyru); Veru) is a town and a municipality in south-eastern Estonia.
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Võru County
Võrumaa, or Võru maakond (Võru County,, Võro maakund) officially, is a county in Southern Estonia.
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Viljandi
Viljandi (Fellin) is a town and municipality in southern Estonia with a population of 17,473 in 2013.
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Viljandi County
Viljandi County (Viljandi maakond or Viljandimaa, Kreis Fellin), is one of 15 counties of Estonia.
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Virumaa
Virumaa (Vironia; Low German: Wierland; Old Norse: Virland) is a former independent county in Ancient Estonia.
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Voivodeship
A voivodeship is the area administered by a voivode (Governor) in several countries of central and eastern Europe.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counties_of_Estonia
