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Harju County

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Harju County (Harju maakond), or Harjumaa (Harrien or Rugel, Harria) is one of the 15 counties of Estonia. [1]

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Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was a German politician, demagogue, and revolutionary, who was the leader of the Nazi Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; NSDAP), Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and Führer ("Leader") of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945.

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Aegna

Aegna is an Estonian island in the Bay of Tallinn in the Baltic Sea.

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Aegviidu

Aegviidu (Estonian for "Timespend") is a borough (alev) in Anija Parish, in Harju County.

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Ancient Estonia

Ancient Estonia refers to a period covering History of Estonia from the middle of the 8th millennium BC until the conquest and subjugation of the local Finnic tribes in the first quarter of the 13th century during the Danish Northern Crusades.

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Anija Parish

Anija Parish (Anija vald) is a rural county in northern Estonian state of Harju.

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Aruküla

Aruküla is a small borough (alevik) in Harju County, northern Estonia.

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Ääsmäe

Ääsmäe is a settlement in Saue Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia.

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Ülle Rajasalu

Ülle Rajasalu (born 6 May 1953) is an Estonian Politician.

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Baltic Germans

The Baltic Germans (Deutsch-Balten or Deutschbalten, later Baltendeutsche) are ethnic German inhabitants of the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, in what today are Estonia and Latvia.

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Baltic Klint

The Baltic Klint (Clint, Glint; Balti klint, Балтийско-Ладожский уступ, Глинт) is an erosional limestone escarpment on several islands of the Baltic Sea, in Estonia, in Leningrad Oblast of Russia and in the islands of Gotland and Öland of Sweden.

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Baltic Sea

The Baltic Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, enclosed by Scandinavia, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Poland, Germany and the North and Central European Plain.

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Battle of Kautla

The Battle of Kautla (Kautla lahing, Kautla veresaun or Kautla veretöö) was a battle between Soviet destruction battalions and Estonian Forest Brothers in Kautla, Estonia in July 1941.

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Battle of Lyndanisse

The Battle of Lindanise was a battle which helped King Valdemar II of Denmark establish the territory of Danish Estonia during the Northern Crusades, which were undertaken in response to calls from the Pope.

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Battle of Tannenberg Line

This is a sub-article to Battle of Narva (1944). The Battle of Tannenberg Line (Die Schlacht um die Tannenbergstellung; Sinimägede lahing; Битва за линию «Танненберг») was a military engagement between the German Army Detachment Narwa and the Soviet Leningrad Front.

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Bekker Port

Bekker Port (Bekkeri sadam) is a seaport situated in Kopli, Tallinn, Estonia, located on the northeastern coast of the Kopli Bay (part of the Tallinn Bay).

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Bolsheviks

The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists or Bolsheviki (p; derived from bol'shinstvo (большинство), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority"), were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903.

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Bomber

A bomber is a combat aircraft designed to attack ground and naval targets by dropping air-to-ground weaponry (such as bombs), firing torpedoes and bullets or deploying air-launched cruise missiles.

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Bombing of Tallinn in World War II

The German Luftwaffe and Soviet Long Range Aviation bombed the Estonian capital Tallinn several times during World War II.

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Borough

A borough is an administrative division in various English-speaking countries.

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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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Capitulation of Estonia and Livonia

With the Capitulation of Estonia and Livonia in 1710 the Swedish dominions Estonia and Livonia were integrated into the Russian EmpireLuts (2006), p. 159 following their conquest during the Great Northern War.

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Christianity

ChristianityFrom Ancient Greek Χριστός Khristós (Latinized as Christus), translating Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ, Māšîăḥ, meaning "the anointed one", with the Latin suffixes -ian and -itas.

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Closed city

A closed city or closed town is a settlement where travel or residency restrictions are applied so that specific authorization is required to visit or remain overnight.

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Commuter rail

Commuter rail, also called suburban rail, is a passenger rail transport service that primarily operates between a city centre and middle to outer suburbs beyond 15 km (10 miles) and commuter towns or other locations that draw large numbers of commuters—people who travel on a daily basis.

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Continuation War

The Continuation War was a conflict fought by Finland and Nazi Germany, as co-belligerents, against the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1941 to 1944, during World War II.

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Counties of Estonia

Counties (maakond, plural maakonnad) are the first-level administrative subdivisions of Estonia.

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County Governors of Estonia

The Governor (maavanem) is the leader of a county (maakond) in Estonia.

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Danish language

Danish (dansk, dansk sprog) is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in Denmark and in the region of Southern Schleswig in northern Germany, where it has minority language status.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark), officially the Kingdom of Denmark,Kongeriget Danmark,.

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Destruction battalions

Destruction battalions, colloquially istrebitels (истребители, "destroyers", "exterminators") abbreviated: istrebki (Russian), strybki (Ukrainian) were paramilitary units under the control of NKVD in the western Soviet Union, which performed tasks of internal security on the Eastern Front and after it.

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Direct-controlled municipality

A direct-controlled municipality is the highest level classification for cities used by unitary state, with status equal to that of the provinces in the respective countries.

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Elron (rail transit)

AS Eesti Liinirongid, operating as Elron, is a government-owned passenger train operator in Estonia.

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Emajõgi

Emajõgi (is a river in Estonia which flows from Lake Võrtsjärv through Tartu County into Lake Peipus, crossing the city of Tartu for 10 km. It has a length of 100 km. The name Emajõgi means "Mother River" in Estonian. The Emajõgi is sometimes called the Suur Emajõgi ("Great Emajõgi"), in contrast with the Väike Emajõgi ("Little Emajõgi"), another river which flows into the southern end of Lake Võrtsjärv. Emajõgi is the second largest river in Estonia by discharge and the only fully navigable river.

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Erna long-range reconnaissance group

The Erna long-range reconnaissance group (Erna luuregrupp) was a Finnish Army formation, of Estonian volunteers, that fulfilled reconnaissance duties in Estonia behind the Red Army lines during World War II.

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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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Estonia Theatre

The Jugendstil building was designed by Finnish architects Armas Lindgren and Wivi Lönn.

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Estonian language

Estonian (eesti keel) is the official language of Estonia, spoken natively by about 1.1 million people: 922,000 people in Estonia and 160,000 outside Estonia.

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Estonian Maritime Museum

The Estonian Maritime Museum (Eesti Meremuuseum) is located in the Fat Margaret tower in the old town of Tallinn.

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Estonian Provincial Assembly election, 1917

The Estonian Provincial Assembly (Maapäev) was elected after the February Revolution in 1917 as the national diet of the Autonomous Governorate of Estonia in Russian Empire.

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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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Estonian Swedes

The Estonian Swedes, Estonia-Swedes, or Coastal Swedes (estlandssvenskar, "Estonia Swedes", colloquially aibofolke, "Island People", rannarootslased, i.e. "Coastal Swedes" or eestirootslased) are a Swedish-speaking minority traditionally residing in the coastal areas and islands of what is now western and northern Estonia.

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Estonian War of Independence

The Estonian War of Independence (Vabadussõda, literally "Freedom War"), also known as the Estonian Liberation War, was a defensive campaign of the Estonian Army and its allies, most notably the White Russian Northwestern Army, Latvia, and the United Kingdom, against the Soviet Western Front offensive and the aggression of the Baltische Landeswehr.

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Estonians

Estonians (eestlased) are a Finnic ethnic group native to Estonia who speak the Estonian language.

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Ethnic group

An ethnic group, or an ethnicity, is a category of people who identify with each other based on similarities such as common ancestry, language, history, society, culture or nation.

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Finland

Finland (Suomi; Finland), officially the Republic of Finland is a country in Northern Europe bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Gulf of Finland, between Norway to the north, Sweden to the northwest, and Russia to the east.

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Flag of Estonia

The national flag of Estonia (Eesti lipp) is a tricolour featuring three equal horizontal bands of blue (top), black, and white.

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Flag of Germany

The flag of Germany or German Flag (Flagge Deutschlands) is a tricolour consisting of three equal horizontal bands displaying the national colours of Germany: black, red, and gold (Schwarz-Rot-Gold).

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Flag of the Soviet Union

The State Flag of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; commonly known as the Soviet flag was the official national flag of the Soviet Union from 1923 to 1991.

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Forest Brothers

The Forest Brothers (also Brothers of the Forest, Forest Brethren, or Forest Brotherhood; metsavennad, meža brāļi, miško broliai) were Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian partisans who waged a guerrilla war against Soviet rule during the Soviet invasion and occupation of the three Baltic states during, and after, World War II.

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German Revolution of 1918–19

The German Revolution or November Revolution (Novemberrevolution) was a civil conflict in the German Empire at the end of the First World War that resulted in the replacement of the German federal constitutional monarchy with a democratic parliamentary republic that later became known as the Weimar Republic.

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Germans

Germans (Deutsche) are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe, who share a common German ancestry, culture and history.

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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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Great Northern War

The Great Northern War (1700–1721) was a conflict in which a coalition led by the Tsardom of Russia successfully contested the supremacy of the Swedish Empire in Northern, Central and Eastern Europe.

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Great Northern War plague outbreak

During the Great Northern War (1700–1721), many towns and areas of the Circum-Baltic and East-Central Europe suffered from a severe outbreak of the plague with a peak from 1708 to 1712.

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Gulf of Finland

The Gulf of Finland (Suomenlahti; Soome laht; p; Finska viken) is the easternmost arm of the Baltic Sea.

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Haabneeme

Haabneeme is a small borough (alevik) in Viimsi Parish, Harju County, in northern Estonia alongside Viimsi.

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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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Hanseatic League

The Hanseatic League (Middle Low German: Hanse, Düdesche Hanse, Hansa; Standard German: Deutsche Hanse; Latin: Hansa Teutonica) was a commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and market towns in Northwestern and Central Europe.

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Harju Elu

Harju Elu is the official weekly newspaper of Harju County, Estonia.

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Harjumaa (ancient county)

Harjumaa, (Harria) (1200 hides), was an ancient Estonian county.

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Harku

Harku (Hark) is a small borough (alevik) in Harku Parish, Harju County, northern Estonia.

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Harku Parish

Harku Parish (Harku vald) is a rural municipality in Harju County, northern Estonia, located west and neighbouring the capital Tallinn.

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Helsinki

Helsinki (or;; Helsingfors) is the capital city and most populous municipality of Finland.

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Hospital ship

A hospital ship is a ship designated for primary function as a floating medical treatment facility or hospital.

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Human settlement

In geography, statistics and archaeology, a settlement, locality or populated place is a community in which people live.

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Ihasalu

Ihasalu is a village in Jõelähtme Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia.

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Internment

Internment is the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without charges or intent to file charges, and thus no trial.

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Invasion of Poland

The Invasion of Poland, known in Poland as the September Campaign (Kampania wrześniowa) or the 1939 Defensive War (Wojna obronna 1939 roku), and in Germany as the Poland Campaign (Polenfeldzug) or Fall Weiss ("Case White"), was a joint invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, the Free City of Danzig, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the beginning of World War II.

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Iru Power Plant

Iru Power Plant is a co-generation power plant in Iru village, Maardu, Estonia.

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Jaan Anvelt

Jaan Anvelt (in Russian Ян Анвельт, also known by the pseudonyms Eessaare Aadu, Jaan Holm, Jaan Hulmu, Kaarel Maatamees, Onkel Kaak or Н. Альтъ; 18 April 1884 – 11 December 1937), was a Soviet revolutionary, leader of the Communist Party of Estonia, the first Premier of Soviet Estonia, and the Chairman of the Council of The Commune of the Working People of Estonia (Estonian Eesti Töörahva Kommuun).

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Jaan Mark

Jaan Mark (born 11 June 1951) is an Estonian politician.

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Jaan Poska

Jaan Poska VR III/1 (Laiusevälja, Kreis Dorpat, Governorate of Livonia – 7 March 1920, Tallinn, Estonia) was an Estonian barrister and politician.

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Jägala concentration camp

Jägala concentration camp was a labour camp of the Estonian Security Police and SD during the German occupation of Estonia during World War II.

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Jägala Waterfall

The Jägala Waterfall (Jägala juga) is a waterfall in Northern Estonia on Jägala River.

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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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Järvakandi

Järvakandi (Jerwakant) is a borough (alev) in central Estonia.

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Jõelähtme

Jõelähtme (Jegelecht) is a village in Jõelähtme Parish, Harju County, northern Estonia.

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Jõelähtme Parish

Jõelähtme Parish (Jõelähtme vald) is a rural municipality in Harju County, north-western Estonia.

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Jüri

Jüri is a small borough (alevik) in Harju County, northern Estonia.

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Jüri Uluots

Jüri Uluots (13 January 1890 – 9 January 1945) was an Estonian prime minister, journalist, prominent attorney and distinguished Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Tartu.

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Jews

Jews (יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3, Israeli pronunciation) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation, originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of the Ancient Near East.

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Johan Pitka

Johan Pitka, VR I/1, (19 February 1872 in Jalgsema, Järva County, Estonia – disappeared September 1944 in Läänemaa, Estonia) was a famous Estonian military commander from the Estonian War of Independence until World War II.

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Juminda

Juminda is a village in Kuusalu Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia.

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Kaberneeme

Kaberneeme is a village in Jõelähtme Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia.

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Kakumäe

Kakumäe (Estonian for "Owl Hill") is a subdistrict (asum) in the district of Haabersti, Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.

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Kaleva (airplane)

Kaleva was a civilian Junkers Ju 52 passenger and transport plane, belonging to the Finnish carrier Aero O/Y.

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Kalevi-Liiva

Kalevi-Liiva are sand dunes in Jõelähtme Parish in Harju County, Estonia.

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Kõue Parish

Kõue Parish (Kõue vald) was a rural municipality in Harju County, Estonia.

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Kehra

Kehra is a small town in Harju County, northern Estonia, and the administrative centre of Anija Parish.

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Keibu

Keibu is a village in Lääne-Harju Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia.

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Keila

Keila (Kegel) is a town and an urban municipality in Harju County in north-western Estonia.

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Keila (river)

The Keila is a river in Northern Estonia.

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Keila Waterfall

The Keila Waterfall (Keila juga) is a waterfall in Northern Estonia on Keila River.

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Kelnase

Kelnase is a village on Prangli Island in Viimsi Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia.

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Keri

Keri is a Hebrew term which literally means "happenstance", "frivolity" or "contrariness" and has come to mean "seminal emission".

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Keri (island)

Keri (Kockskär) is a Estonian island in the Gulf of Finland.

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Kesklinn, Tallinn

Kesklinn (Estonian for "Central Town") is one of the 8 administrative districts (linnaosa) of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.

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Kiili

Kiili (before 1971: Veneküla, before 1920: Russendorf, first mentioned as Wenne Külla) is a borough (alev) in Harju County, northern Estonia.

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Kiili Parish

Kiili Parish (Kiili vald) is a rural municipality in Harju County, north-western Estonia.

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Klooga concentration camp

Klooga concentration camp was a Nazi forced labor subcamp of the Vaivara concentration camp complex established in September 1943 in Harju County, during World War II, in German-occupied Estonia near the village of Klooga.

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Kloogaranna

Kloogaranna is a village in Lääne-Harju Parish, Harju County, Estonia.

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Kohila

Kohila (formerly also Kapa-Kohila, Koil, Kappakoil) is a borough (alev) in Rapla County, northern Estonia.

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Koipsi

Koipsi is an island and a village in Jõelähtme Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia.

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Kolgu

Kolgu is a village in Kuusalu Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia.

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Kopli

Kopli (Estonian for "Paddock") is a subdistrict of the district of Põhja-Tallinn (Northern Tallinn) in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.

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Kose

Kose is a small borough (alevik) in Harju County, northern Estonia.

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Kose Parish

Kose Parish (Kose vald) is a rural municipality in northern Estonia.

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Kuusalu Parish

Kuusalu Parish (Kuusalu vald) is a rural municipality in northern Estonia, the largest in Harju County.

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Laagri

Laagri is a small borough (alevik) in Harju County, northern Estonia.

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Labour battalion

Labour battalions have been a form of alternative service or unfree labour in various countries in lieu of or resembling regular military service.

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Lahemaa National Park

Lahemaa National Park is a park located in northern Estonia, 70 kilometers east from the capital Tallinn.

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Laitse

Laitse is a village in Saue Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia.

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Lake Ülemiste

Lake Ülemiste (Ülemiste järv) is the largest of the lakes surrounding Tallinn, Estonia.

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Lake Harku

Lake Harku (Harku järv; also known as Lake Haabersti, Loodjärv and Lake Argo) is a lake on the western border of Tallinn, Estonia.

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Lake Kahala

Lake Kahala is a lake of Estonia.

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Lasnamäe

Lasnamäe is the most populous administrative district of Tallinn, the capital of 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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Leppneeme

Leppneeme is a village in Viimsi Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia.

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Linnahall

Linnahall (Tallinna Linnahall, 'Tallinn City Hall') (originally the V. I. Lenin Palace of Culture and Sport) is a multi-purpose venue in Tallinn, Estonia.

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List of sovereign states

This list of sovereign states provides an overview of sovereign states around the world, with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.

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Livonian Brothers of the Sword

The Livonian Brothers of the Sword (Fratres militiæ Christi Livoniae, Schwertbrüderorden, Ordre des Chevaliers Porte-Glaive) was a Catholic military order established by Albert, the third bishop of Riga (or possibly by Theoderich von Treyden), in 1202.

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Livonian Crusade

The Livonian Crusade refers to the conquest of the territory constituting modern Latvia and Estonia during the pope-sanctioned Northern Crusades, performed mostly by Germans from the Holy Roman Empire and Danes.

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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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Lohusalu

Lohusalu is a village in Lääne-Harju Parish, Harju County, Estonia.

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Loksa

Loksa is a town and municipality in Harju County, northern Estonia.

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Maardu

Maardu is a town and a municipality in Harju County, Estonia.

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Miiduranna

Miiduranna is a village in Viimsi Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia.

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Municipal borough

Municipal boroughs were a type of local government district which existed in England and Wales between 1835 and 1974, in Northern Ireland from 1840 to 1973 and in the Republic of Ireland from 1840 to 2002.

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Municipalities of Estonia

A municipality (omavalitsus, plural omavalitsused) is the smallest administrative subdivision of Estonia.

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Mustamäe

Mustamäe (Estonian for Black Hill) is one of the 8 administrative districts (linnaosa) of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.

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Muuga Harbour

Muuga Harbour (Muuga sadam) is the largest cargo port in Estonia, located on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland, northeast of the capital Tallinn, in Maardu.

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Naissaar

Naissaar (Nargen; Nargö) is an island northwest of Tallinn (but belonging to Viimsi Parish) in Estonia.

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Names of the Romani people

The Romani people are also known by a variety of other names; in English as gypsies or gipsies (seen by some as a slur, as discussed below) and Roma, in Greek as γύφτοι (gíftoi) or τσιγγάνοι (tsingánoi), in Central and Eastern Europe as Tsingani (and variants), in France as gitans besides the dated bohémiens, manouches, in Italy as zingari and gitani, in Spain as gitanos, and in Portugal as ciganos.

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Narva

Narva (Нарва) is the third largest city in Estonia.

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National Committee of the Republic of Estonia

The National Committee of the Republic of Estonia (EVRK) was a self-styled resistance movement in German-occupied Estonia in March 1944.

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National park

A national park is a park in use for conservation purposes.

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Nature reserve

A nature reserve (also called a natural reserve, bioreserve, (natural/nature) preserve, or (national/nature) conserve) is a protected area of importance for wildlife, flora, fauna or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed for conservation and to provide special opportunities for study or research.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany is the common English name for the period in German history from 1933 to 1945, when Germany was under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler through the Nazi Party (NSDAP).

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Nõmme

Nõmme (Estonian for "Heath") is one of the 8 administrative districts (linnaosa) of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.

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Neutral country

A neutral country is a state, which is either neutral towards belligerents in a specific war, or holds itself as permanently neutral in all future conflicts (including avoiding entering into military alliances such as NATO).

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Nissi Parish

Nissi Parish (Nissi vald) was a rural municipality in northern Estonia.

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Nuclear navy

Nuclear navy, or nuclear-powered navy consists of naval ships powered by relatively small onboard nuclear reactors known as naval reactors.

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Nuclear reactor

A nuclear reactor, formerly known as an atomic pile, is a device used to initiate and control a self-sustained nuclear chain reaction.

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October Revolution

The October Revolution (p), officially known in Soviet literature as the Great October Socialist Revolution (Вели́кая Октя́брьская социалисти́ческая револю́ция), and commonly referred to as Red October, the October Uprising, the Bolshevik Revolution, or the Bolshevik Coup, was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolsheviks and Vladimir Lenin that was instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917.

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Operation Barbarossa

Operation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa) was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, which started on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II.

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Operation Priboi

Operation Priboi ("Coastal Surf") was the code name for the Soviet mass deportation from the Baltic states on 25–28 March 1949.

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ORP Orzeł (1938)

ORP Orzeł was the lead ship of her class of submarines serving in the Polish Navy during World War II.

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Orzeł incident

The Orzeł incident occurred at the beginning of World War II.

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Otto Tief

Otto Tief (– 5 March 1976) was an Estonian politician, military commander (during the Estonian War of Independence), and a lawyer.

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Padise Abbey

Padise Abbey (Padise klooster) was a former Cistercian monastery in Padise in Harju County, Estonia, settled in 1310 by the dispossessed monks of Dünamünde Abbey in Latvia.

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Padise Parish

Padise Parish (Padise vald) was a rural municipality in Harju County, north-western Estonia.

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Pakri Islands

Pakri Islands (Pakri saared, Rågöarna) are two Estonian islands in the Finnish Gulf: Suur-Pakri and Väike-Pakri (Stora Rågö and Lilla Rågö).

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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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Paljassaare

Paljassaare (Estonian for "Bare Island") is the name of the Paljassaare Peninsula in the Tallinn Bay, and the name of a subdistrict (asum) in the district of Põhja-Tallinn (Northern Tallinn) in the city of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.

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Parish

A parish is a church territorial entity constituting a division within a diocese.

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Parish (administrative division)

A parish is an administrative division used by several countries.

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Paunküla Reservoir

Paunküla reservoir is a lake of Estonia.

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Pärispea

Pärispea is a village in Kuusalu Parish in Harju County in northern Estonia.

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Pärnu

Pärnu (Pernau) is the fourth-largest city in Estonia.

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Põhja-Kõrvemaa Nature Reserve

Põhja-Kõrvemaa Nature Reserve (Põhja-Kõrvemaa looduskaitseala) is a protected area in Harju County, Northern Estonia, some 50 km east of Tallinn.

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Peetri

Peetri is a small borough (alevik) in Järva Parish, Järva County in northern Estonia.

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Pelguranna

Pelguranna (Estonian for "Shelter Beach") is a subdistrict (asum) in the district of Põhja-Tallinn (North Tallinn) in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.

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Peter the Great

Peter the Great (ˈpʲɵtr vʲɪˈlʲikʲɪj), Peter I (ˈpʲɵtr ˈpʲɛrvɨj) or Peter Alexeyevich (p; –)Dates indicated by the letters "O.S." are in the Julian calendar with the start of year adjusted to 1 January.

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Peter the Great's Naval Fortress

Peter the Great's naval fortress or the Tallinn-Porkkala defence station was a Russian fortification line, which aimed to block access to the Russian capital Saint Petersburg via the sea.

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Pikaliiva

Pikaliiva (Estonian for "Long Sand") is a subdistrict of the district of Haabersti in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.

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Pikk Hermann

Pikk Hermann or Tall Hermann (Langer Hermann) is a tower of the Toompea Castle, on Toompea hill in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.

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Pirita

Pirita is one of the eight administrative districts (linnaosa) of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.

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Pirita (river)

The Pirita (Pirita jõgi) is a long river in northern Estonia that drains into Tallinn Bay (part of the Gulf of Finland) in Pirita, Tallinn.

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Pirita convent

Pirita Convent (Pirita klooster) was a monastery for both monks and nuns dedicated to St. Brigitta, located in the district of Pirita in Tallinn, Estonia, between the 1417 and 1575.

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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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Postimees

Postimees (The Postman) is an Estonian daily newspaper established on January 1, 1857, by Johann Voldemar Jannsen.

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Prangli

Prangli (Vrangö) is an Estonian island in the Gulf of Finland.

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Prime Minister of Estonia

The Prime Minister of Estonia (Estonian: Eesti Vabariigi peaminister, literally translated as Head Minister of Estonia) is the head of government of the Republic of Estonia.

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Raasiku

Raasiku is a small borough (alevik) in Raasiku Parish, Harju County, Estonia, with a population of 1,378 (2017).

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Raasiku Parish

Raasiku Parish (Raasiku vald) in Harju County locates in the south-eastern direction from the city of Tallinn.

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Rae Parish

Rae Parish (Rae vald) is a rural municipality in northern Estonia.

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Raekoja plats, Tallinn

Raekoja plats (Town Hall Square) is a town square beside Tallinn Town Hall (Raekoda) in the center of the Tallinn Old Town in Tallinn, Estonia.

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Rail Baltica

Rail Baltica (in Estonia also known as Rail Baltic and the Baltic part referred to as the Rail Baltica Global Project) is a greenfield railway infrastructure project to link Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland with a European standard gauge rail line, providing passenger and freight service between the countries and improving rail connections between Central and Northern Europe as well as acting as a catalyst for building the economic corridor in the Northeastern Europe.

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Raion

A raion (also rayon) is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet states (such as part of an oblast).

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Rammu

Rammu is an island and a non-populated village in Jõelähtme Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia.

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Rannamõisa

Rannamõisa is a village in Harku Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia.

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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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Reconnaissance

In military operations, reconnaissance or scouting is the exploration outside an area occupied by friendly forces to gain information about natural features and other activities in the area.

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Red Army

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Рабоче-крестьянская Красная армия (РККА), Raboche-krest'yanskaya Krasnaya armiya (RKKA), frequently shortened in Russian to Красная aрмия (КА), Krasnaya armiya (KA), in English: Red Army, also in critical literature and folklore of that epoch – Red Horde, Army of Work) was the army and the air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, and, after 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

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Rehemäe

Rehemäe is a village in Lääne-Nigula Parish, Lääne County in western 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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Riga

Riga (Rīga) is the capital and largest city of Latvia.

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Riisipere

Riisipere (Riesenberg) is a small borough (alevik) in the county of Harju, Estonia, and is the Nissi Parish administrative center.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire (Российская Империя) or Russia was an empire that existed across Eurasia and North America from 1721, following the end of the Great Northern War, until the Republic was proclaimed by the Provisional Government that took power after the February Revolution of 1917.

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Russians

Russians (русские, russkiye) are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Eastern Europe. The majority of Russians inhabit the nation state of Russia, while notable minorities exist in other former Soviet states such as Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Ukraine and the Baltic states. A large Russian diaspora also exists all over the world, with notable numbers in the United States, Germany, Israel, and Canada. Russians are the most numerous ethnic group in Europe. The Russians share many cultural traits with their fellow East Slavic counterparts, specifically Belarusians and Ukrainians. They are predominantly Orthodox Christians by religion. The Russian language is official in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan, and also spoken as a secondary language in many former Soviet states.

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Sailing at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Sailing/Yachting is an Olympic sport starting from the Games of the 1st Olympiad (1896 Olympics in Athens, Greece).

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Saint George's Night Uprising

Saint George’s Night Uprising in 1343–1345 (Jüriöö ülestõus) was an unsuccessful attempt by the indigenous Estonian population in the Duchy of Estonia, the Bishopric of Ösel-Wiek, and the insular territories of the State of the Teutonic Order to rid themselves of the Danish and German rulers and landlords, who had conquered the country in the 13th century during the Livonian crusade, and to eradicate the non-indigenous Christian religion.

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg (p) is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow, with 5 million inhabitants in 2012, part of the Saint Petersburg agglomeration with a population of 6.2 million (2015).

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Saku Parish

Saku Parish (Saku vald) is a rural municipality in Harju County, north-western Estonia.

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Saku, Estonia

Saku (Sack) is a small town (alevik) in Harju County, Estonia, located south from Tallinn, the capital.

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Saue

Saue is a town in north-western Estonia.

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Saue Parish

Saue Parish (est: Saue vald) was a rural municipality in Harju County, north-western Estonia.

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Scorched earth

A scorched-earth policy is a military strategy that aims to destroy anything that might be useful to the enemy while it is advancing through or withdrawing from a location.

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Sokos Hotel Viru

The Original Sokos Hotel Viru Tallinn is a hotel in Tallinn, Estonia.

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Soviet (council)

Soviets (singular: soviet; sovét,, literally "council" in English) were political organizations and governmental bodies, primarily associated with the Russian Revolutions and the history of the Soviet Union, and which gave the name to the latter state.

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Soviet Air Forces

The Soviet Air Forces (r (VVS), literally "Military Air Forces") was the official designation of one of the air forces of the Soviet Union.

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Soviet evacuation of Tallinn

The Soviet evacuation of Tallinn, also called Tallinn disaster or Russian Dunkirk, was a Soviet operation to evacuate the 190 ships of the Baltic Fleet, units of the Red Army, and pro-Soviet civilians from the fleet's encircled main base of Tallinn in Soviet-occupied Estonia during August 1941.

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Soviet Navy

The Soviet Navy (Military Maritime Fleet of the USSR) was the naval arm of the Soviet Armed Forces.

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Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

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Soviet–Estonian Mutual Assistance Treaty

The Soviet–Estonian Mutual Assistance Treaty, also known as the Bases Treaty was a bilateral treaty signed in Moscow on 28 September 1939.

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St. Nicholas' Church, Tallinn

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St. Olaf's Church, Tallinn

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Stepan Maximovich Petrichenko

Stepan Maximovich Petrichenko (Степа́н Макси́мович Петриче́нко; 1892 – June 2, 1947) was a Russian revolutionary, an anarcho-syndicalist politician, the head of the Soviet Republic of Soldiers and Fortress-Builders of Nargen and in 1921, de facto leader of the Kronstadt Commune, and the leader of the revolutionary committee which led the Kronstadt rebellion of 1921.

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Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the most populous city in the Nordic countries; 952,058 people live in the municipality, approximately 1.5 million in the urban area, and 2.3 million in the metropolitan area.

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Suurupi

Suurupi is a village in Harku Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia.

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Sweden

Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.

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Swedish language

Swedish is a North Germanic language spoken natively by 9.6 million people, predominantly in Sweden (as the sole official language), and in parts of Finland, where it has equal legal standing with Finnish.

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Tallinn

Tallinn (or,; names in other languages) is the capital and largest city of Estonia.

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Tallinn Airport

Tallinn Airport (Tallinna lennujaam) or Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport (Lennart Meri Tallinna lennujaam) is the largest airport in Estonia and serves as a hub for the national airline Nordica, as well as the secondary hub for AirBaltic and LOT Polish Airlines.

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Tallinn Offensive

The Tallinn Offensive (Таллинская наступательная операция) was a strategic offensive by the Red Army's 2nd Shock and 8th Armies and the Baltic Fleet against the German Army Detachment ''Narwa'' and Estonian units in mainland Estonia on the Eastern Front of World War II on 17–26 September 1944.

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Tallinn Passenger Port

The Tallinn Passenger Port or the Old City Harbour (Vanasadam) is the main passenger harbour in Tallinn, Estonia.

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Tallinn TV Tower

The Tallinn TV Tower (Tallinna teletorn) is a free-standing structure with an observation deck, built to provide better telecommunication services for the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics regatta event (see Sailing at the 1980 Summer Olympics).

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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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Türisalu

Türisalu is a village in Harku Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia.

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Toompea

Toompea (from Domberg, "Cathedral Hill") is a limestone hill in the central part of the city of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.

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Toompea Castle

Toompea Castle (Toompea loss) (Castrum Danorum) is a castle on Toompea hill in the central part of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.

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Treaty of Nystad

The Treaty of Nystad (Ништадтский мир, Uudenkaupungin rauha, Freden i Nystad, Uusikaupunki rahu) was the last peace treaty of the Great Northern War of 1700–1721.

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Tuhala

Tuhala is a village in Kose Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Valdemar II of Denmark

Valdemar II (9 May 117028 March 1241), called Valdemar the Victorious or Valdemar the Conqueror (Valdemar Sejr), was the King of Denmark from 1202 until his death in 1241.

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Vasalemma

Vasalemma is a small borough (alevik) in Harju County, northwestern Estonia.

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Väike-Õismäe

Väike-Õismäe (Estonian for "Little Blossom Hill") is a subdistrict (asum) in the district of Haabersti, Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.

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Värner Lootsmann

Värner Lootsmann (born August 18, 1945 in Kasispea) is an Estonian Politician from Harju County.

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Vetla

Vetla is a village in Anija Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia.

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Viimsi

Viimsi (Wiems) is a small borough (alevik) in Harju County, northern Estonia.

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Viimsi Parish

Viimsi Parish (Viimsi vald) is a rural municipality in northern Estonia, located north-east and neighbouring the capital Tallinn.

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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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Walls of Tallinn

The Walls of Tallinn are the medieval defensive walls constructed around the city of Tallinn in Estonia.

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Warsaw

Warsaw (Warszawa; see also other names) is the capital and largest city of Poland.

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Winter War

The Winter War was a military conflict between the Soviet Union (USSR) and Finland.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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1924 Estonian coup d'état attempt

The Attempted coup of 1924 in Estonia (1.),Estonia and the Estonians, Hoover Institution Press, p.15 conducted by the Comintern, was a failed coup attempt in Estonia staged by Communists (mostly infiltrated from Soviet Union) on December 1, 1924.

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EE-37, Harju county, Harju maakond, Harjumaa, Harjumaa, Estonia, Harrien, History of Harju County.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harju_County

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