Estonia

Geography

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This country is north of Estonia.

What is Finland? Estonia is separated from its Northern neighbour by the Gulf of Finland. Other neighbours are Russia on the eastern side, Latvia in the south and Sweden in the west which lies across the Baltic Sea.

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This is the capital of Estonia

What is Tallinn?

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Lake Peipsi (3555 sq km) is situated on the Estonian-Russian border and is the biggest transboundary lake in Europe. True or false?

What is true? It is also the fourth largest of all lakes in Europe, the biggest being Lake Ladoga in Russia.

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1521 - it is the number of those geographical objects in Estonia.

What is island? Saaremaa is the biggest.

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Estonia is not noted for its mountainous landscape. Its highest mountain is Suur Munamägi. This is the height of it. (+/- 10 per cent).

What is 318m or 1,043 ft? Suur Munamägi (in translation "Big Egg Mountain") is the highest peak in Estonia and the Baltic states.

History

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Estonian flag has three equal horizontal bands. These are the colours.

What is: blue, black and white? These colours are said to symbolize the skies, earth and peace.

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This year Estonia first declared its independence.

What is 1918? after the October Revolution of 1917 and German victories against the Russian army, between the Russian Red Army's retreat and the arrival of advancing German troops, the Committee of Elders of the Maapäev issued the Estonian Declaration of Independence in Pärnu on 23 February and in Tallinn on 24 February 1918. After winning the Estonian War of Independence against both Soviet Russia and the German Freikorps and Baltische Landeswehr volunteers, (the Tartu Peace Treaty was signed on 2 February 1920). The Republic of Estonia was recognised (de jure) by Finland on 7 July 1920, Poland on 31 December 1920, Argentina on 12 January 1921 and by the Western Allies on 26 January 1921.

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Estonia regained independence from Soviet Union this year.

What is 1991? The exact date was August 20, 1991. It was called 'the singing revolution' - victory without bloodshed.

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There is a legend connected to Estonia about how this foreign country got its flag.

What is Denmark? In 1219 the Danish King Waldemar II was trying to conquer Northern Estonia. It seemed that the Estonians were going to win, but, according to the legend, an ensign - a white cross on the red field - was then bestowed from the Heavens. When the Danes saw it, they took courage and won the battle. The same flag - Dannebrog - is used up to this day as the flag of Denmark (it's the oldest national flag in the world).

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These three countries ruled Estonia in the past and have given the names for periods in the history of Estonia.

What is: Sweden/ Denmark/Germany/Russia/Poland

People

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This is the approximate population of Estonia

What is 1.5 million?

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His name is Toomas Hendrik Ilves. This is his occupation.

What is the president of Estonia? Toomas Hendrik Ilves is the fourth President of Estonia, in office since 2006. Ilves worked as a diplomat and journalist. He was born in Sweden, He grew up in the United States in Leonia, New Jersey and graduated from Leonia High School in 1972. He received a bachelor's degree in psychology from Columbia University in 1976 and a master's degree in the same subject from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978. In addition to his native Estonian, he is fluent in English, German, Spanish and Latin.

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Michael Roos (football player), Samuel H. Shapiro (the governor of Illinois), Johann Urb (actor and former model),Priit Vesilind (author, photojournalist) - the list indicates this.

What is a list of notable Estonian-Americans, who were born in Estonia?

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This is the well-known Estonian, Arvo Pärt, by profession.

What is a composer? Arvo Pärt was born in 1935 in Paide, which is a little Estonian town. He emigrated to Austria in 1980. One year later he moved to Berlin, Germany, where he still lives. At the age of 61, Pärt was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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The largest permanent Estonian community outside Estonia is in this country.

What is Canada? The largest permanent Estonian community outside Estonia is in Canada with about 24,000 people (according to some sources up to 50,000 people). In the late 1940s and early 1950s, about 17,000 arrived in Canada.Toronto is the city with the largest population of Estonians outside of Estonia.

Language

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Estonian, the country's official language, is most closely related to this language.

What is Finnish? The official language, Estonian, belongs to the Finnic branch of the Uralic languages. Estonian is closely related to Finnish, spoken on the other side of the Gulf of Finland, and is one of the few languages of Europe that is not of an Indo-European origin. Despite some overlaps in the vocabulary due to borrowings, in terms of its origin, Estonian and Finnish are not related to their nearest geographical neighbours, Swedish, Latvian, and Russian, which are all Indo-European languages.

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This is the meaning of the word "TERE" in English.

What is "hello"?

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This day is celebrated on March 14.

What is the Mother Tongue Day? The birth of native Estonian literature was in 1810 to 1820 when the patriotic and philosophical poems by Kristjan Jaak Peterson were published. Peterson was the first student at the then German-language University of Dorpat to acknowledge his Estonian origin, is commonly regarded as a herald of Estonian national literature and considered the founder of modern Estonian poetry. His birthday on March 14 is celebrated in Estonia as the Mother Tongue Day.

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Estonian employs THIS script as the basis for its alphabet.

What is Latin? It also adds the letters ä, ö, ü, and õ, plus the later additions š and ž.

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This is the correct match of the phrases: 1) head aega 2) head isu 3)vabandage 4)tubli 5) aitäh a) excuse me b) thank you c) good bye d) well done e) enjoy your meal

What is 1-c, 2-e, 3-a, 4- d, 5-b ?

Varia

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This bird is Estonia's national bird.

What is barn swallow?

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This is Estonian national flower.

What is corn flower?

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This is the currency of Estonia.

What is euro? The euro came into effect as currency in Estonia on 1 January 2011. Before it Estonian kroon was used.

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This popular online communication tool was made by Estonians.

What is Skype? Skype was first released in 2003 written by Estonian developers Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, and Jaan Tallinn, who had also originally developed Kazaa. It developed into a platform with over 600 million users and was bought by Microsoft in 2011 for $8.5 billion

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This is the reason why NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence is located in Tallinn, Estonia.

What is 2007 cyberattacks on Estonia? Cyberattacks on Estonia refers to a series of cyber attacks that began 27 April 2007 and swamped websites of Estonian organizations, including Estonian parliament, banks, ministries, newspapers and broadcasters. Some observers reckoned that the onslaught on Estonia was of a sophistication not seen before. The case is studied intensively by many countries and military planners as, at the time it occurred, it may have been the second-largest instance of state-sponsored cyberwarfare.