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Võru

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Võru (Võro; Werro; Выру (Vyru); Veru) is a town and a municipality in south-eastern Estonia. [1]

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Ain Mäeots

Ain Mäeots (born 25 December 1971) is an Estonian stage, film, and television actor and stage, film, and television director and producer.

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Alūksne

Alūksne is a town on the shores of Lake Alūksne in northeastern Latvia near the borders with Estonia and Russia.

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Anti Saarepuu

Anti Saarepuu (born March 26, 1983 in Võru) is a retired Estonian cross-country skier who has competed since 2003.

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Antsla

Antsla is a town in Võru County, southern Estonia, it is the administrative centre of Antsla Parish.

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Bad Segeberg

Bad Segeberg is a German town of 16,000 inhabitants, located in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, capital of the district (Kreis) Segeberg.

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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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Catherine the Great

Catherine II (Russian: Екатерина Алексеевна Yekaterina Alekseyevna; –), also known as Catherine the Great (Екатери́на Вели́кая, Yekaterina Velikaya), born Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst, was Empress of Russia from 1762 until 1796, the country's longest-ruling female leader.

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Chambray-lès-Tours

Chambray-lès-Tours is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France.

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Counties of Estonia

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

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Eastern European Summer Time

Eastern European Summer Time (EEST) is one of the names of UTC+3 time zone, 3 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time.

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Eastern European Time

Eastern European Time (EET) is one of the names of UTC+02:00 time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time.

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Erki Nool

Erki Nool (born 25 June 1970 in Võru, Estonia) is an Estonian decathlete and politician.

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Erki Pehk

Erki Pehk (born 23 March 1968) is an Estonian conductor and artistic director of opera music festival PromFest.

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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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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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European route E263

European route E 263 is a Class B road part of the International E-road network.

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Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald

Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald (–) was an Estonian writer who is considered to be the father of the national literature for the country.

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George Browne (soldier)

George Browne (Юрий Юрьевич Броун., Seoirse de Brún, Georg Reichsgraf von Browne, George de Browne), Count von Browne in the nobility of the Holy Roman Empire (15 June 1698 – 18 February 1792), was an Irish soldier of fortune who became full general in the Russian service.

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Härryda Municipality

Härryda Municipality (Härryda kommun) is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden.

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Helmut Ajango

Helmut "Mike" Ajango (November 30, 1931 – November 15, 2013) was an Estonian-born architect based in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin in the United States.

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Hilje Murel

Hilje Murel (born 17 December 1975) is an Estonian stage, film, and television actress.

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II liiga

II liiga is the fourth level of football league competition in Estonia arranged by the Estonian Football Association.

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Iisalmi

Iisalmi (Idensalmi) is a town and municipality in the Region of Northern Savonia in Finland.

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Joniškis

Joniškis is a city in northern Lithuania with a population of about 11,150.

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Kaija Udras

Kaija Udras (born December 4, 1986 in Võru) is an Estonian cross-country skier who has competed since 2005.

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Kalevipoeg

Kalevipoeg (Kalev's Son) is an epic poem by Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald held to be the Estonian national epic.

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Kaniv

Kaniv (Канів,; Ка́нев, translit. Kanev; Kaniów) is a city located in Cherkasy Oblast (province) in central Ukraine.

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Kullar Viimne

Kullar Viimne (born 22 March 1980 in Võru) is an Estonian director, scriptwriter, editor and cinematographer.

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Kuperjanov Infantry Battalion

The Kuperjanov Infantry Battalion (Kuperjanovi jalaväepataljon) is a battalion of the Estonian Land Forces.

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Laitila

Laitila (Letala) is a town and a municipality of Finland.

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Lake Tamula

Lake Tamula is a lake in southern Estonia, located on the southeastern side of the town of Võru.

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Landskrona

Landskrona is a late medieval town in Scania province, Sweden, located at the shores of Øresund, founded at the location of the former Danish fishing village Sønder Sæby in the province of Scania by king Erik VII of Pomerania early in the 15th century.

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Leon Sibul

Leon H. Sibul (August 30, 1932 – February 19, 2007) was with Pennsylvania State University’s Applied Research Laboratory from 1964 to 2002, where he retired as a senior scientist and professor of acoustics.

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List of cities and towns in Estonia

The following is a list of cities and towns in 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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Marianne Mikko

Marianne Mikko (born 26 September 1961) is an Estonian politician and former Member of the European Parliament for the Social Democratic Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.

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Meelis Kanep

Meelis Kanep (born 27 May 1983) is an Estonian chess grandmaster.

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Moses Wolf Goldberg

Dr Moses Wolf Goldberg (June 30, 1905 – February 17, 1964) was an Estonian-Jewish chemist who, along with Leo Henryk Sternbach, developed a process for the synthesis of biotin (a B vitamin) in 1949.

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Municipalities of Estonia

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

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National epic

A national epic is an epic poem or a literary work of epic scope which seeks or is believed to capture and express the essence or spirit of a particular nation; not necessarily a nation state, but at least an ethnic or linguistic group with aspirations to independence or autonomy.

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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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Pechory

Pechory (Печо́ры; Estonian and Seto: Petseri) is a town and the administrative center of Pechorsky District in Pskov Oblast, Russia.

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Populated places in Estonia

Populated places in Estonia (officially: settlement units), are cities or settlement units of rural municipalities, but only cities have administrative functions.

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Priit Aimla

Priit Aimla (born 19 April 1941 in Võru) is an Estonian writer, poet, humorist and politician known for several stage plays and books.

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Priit Narusk

Priit Narusk (born 8 December 1977, Võru) is a retired Estonian cross-country skier.

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Räpina

Räpina (Räpinä, Rappin) is a town in Põlva County, Estonia.

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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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Sister city

Twin towns or sister cities are a form of legal or social agreement between towns, cities, counties, oblasts, prefectures, provinces, regions, states, and even countries in geographically and politically distinct areas to promote cultural and commercial ties.

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Smolyan

Smolyan (Смолян) is a town and ski resort in the far south of Bulgaria near the border with Greece.

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Sulev Iva

Sulev Iva (born 3 October 1969 in Võru), also known under the Võro-styled pen name of Jüvä Sullõv, is a Võro identity advocate, and a founding fellow at the Võro Institute.

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Suwałki

Suwałki (Suvalkai, סואוואַלק) is a city in northeastern Poland with 69,210 inhabitants (2011).

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Taara Army Base

The Taara Army Base (Taara sõjaväelinnak) is a military installation of the Estonian Defence Forces located in Võru, in South Estonia.

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Uku Suviste

Uku Suviste (born June 6, 1982, Võru, Estonia) is an Estonian singer-songwriter, pianist and music producer.

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Valga, Estonia

Valga (Walk) is a town in southern Estonia and the capital of Valga County.

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Võro language

Võro (võro kiil|, võru keel) is a language belonging to the Finnic branch of the Uralic languages.

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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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Võru JK

Võru JK was an Estonian football club based in Võru.

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Võru Parish

Võru Parish (Võru vald; Võro vald) is a rural municipality of Estonia, in Võru County.

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Voru, Estonia, Vyru, Võru, Estonia, Vöru, Werro.

References

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

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