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During the Second World War, the Battle of Tehumardi took place in Salme. The location is marked by a 21-metre Soviet monument. 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 .
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 ...
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.
Municipalities of Estonia. A municipality (Estonian: omavalitsus, plural omavalitsused) is the smallest administrative subdivision of Estonia.Each municipality is a unit of self-government with its representative and executive bodies.
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.
Salme (Georgian: სალმე; Abkhaz: Ԥсоу, psou; Estonian: Salme; Russian: Сальме) is a village in Abkhazia, [note 1] Georgia. [1] It was founded in 1884 [1] by Estonian resettlers from Kuusalu, Governorate of Estonia. In 1989 the village had 1659 inhabitants, mostly Estonians, Armenians, Georgians and Russians.
Estonians began to emigrate to Abkhazia when the region became part of the Russian Empire and many Abkhazians left or were expelled. The tsarist regime began to repopulate the area with its Christian subjects, including Estonians. There were numerous waves of migration from Estonia to Abkhazia, where the peasants were promised land. [1]
Võru County (Estonian: Võru maakond or Võrumaa; Võro: Võro maakund) is a county in southern Estonia.It is bordered by Valga and Põlva counties, Latvia's Alūksne and Ape municipalities, and Russia's Pskov Oblast (making it the only Estonian county to border two countries).