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Prior to 1936, the municipality was called Abruka. During the Second World War, the Battle of Tehumardi took place in Salme. The location is marked by a 21-metre Soviet monument. During the administrative-territorial reform in 2017, all 12 municipalities on the island Saaremaa were merged into a single municipality – Saaremaa Parish. [1]
Prior to the administrative reform of Estonian municipalities in 2017, the village was the administrative center of Salme Parish. The Salme shipfind consisted of two clinker-built ships discovered in Salme, one with the remains of seven persons found in autumn 2008, and another with 33 in 2010. [2] Salme school. As of 2021, the population of ...
Russian border guards have removed navigation buoys from the Estonian side of a river separating the two countries, the Baltic nation said on Thursday, adding that it would seek an explanation as ...
Political relations between Russia and Estonia, a country of 1.3 million that is a member of the European Union and NATO, have remained icy since 1991, when the small Baltic nation regained its ...
Amid Russia's war Ukraine, Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas says Moscow is waging a "shadow war" against the West that requires a coordinated response.
Lahetaguse is a village in Saaremaa Parish, Saare County, Estonia, on the island of Saaremaa. [2] It is located on the northern coast of Kaugatoma Bay (part of the Baltic Sea). As of the 2011 census, the settlement's population was 21. [1] Lahetaguse was the location of Lahetaguse (German: Lahhentagge) knight manor.
The Salme ships are two clinker-built ships of Scandinavian origin discovered in 2008 and 2010 near the village of Salme on the island of Saaremaa, Estonia.Both ships were used for ship burials here around AD 700–750 in the Nordic Iron Age and contained the remains of 41 warriors killed in battle, as well as 6 dogs, 2 hunting hawks and numerous weapons and other artifacts.
Estonia's parliament has approved a proposal allowing the use of frozen Russian assets to pay compensation for war damage in Ukraine. Last week European Union ambassadors agreed to use windfall ...