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Countries with significant Estonian population and descendants. Estonians or Estonian people (Estonian: eestlased) are a Baltic Finnic ethnic group who speak the Estonian language. Their nation state is Estonia. The Estonian language is spoken as the first language by the vast majority of Estonians; it is closely related to other Finnic ...
In 2008, thirteen of Estonia's fifteen counties were over 80% ethnic Estonian. The counties with the highest percentage Estonians are Hiiu County (98.4%) and Saare County (98.3%). However, in Harju County (which includes the national capital, Tallinn ) and Ida-Viru County , ethnic Estonians make up only 59.6% (55.0% in Tallinn) and 19.7% of the ...
Estonia leads the world in book ownership, on average Estonians own 218 books per house, and 35% own 350 books or more (as of 2018). [2]Though literature in the Estonian language could be said to have existed since the publication of the Wanradt–Koell Catechism in 1535, few notable works of non-ecclesiastical literature were written until the early 1800s, which saw the beginning of an ...
Fragments of the Wanradt–Koell Catechism (1535), the first book printed in Estonian. The history of Estonia forms a part of the history of Europe.Human settlement in what is now Estonia became possible 13,000–11,000 years ago, after the ice from the last glacial era had melted, and signs of the first permanent population in the region date from around 9000 BCE.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 19 October 2024. Group of peoples around the Baltic Sea This article is about the Finnic peoples living near the Baltic Sea. For other uses, see Finnic peoples. Ethnic group Baltic Finnic peoples Finnic languages at the beginning of the 20th century Total population c. 7.4–8.2 million Regions with ...
Estonian Americans (Estonian: Ameerika eestlased) are Americans who are of Estonian ancestry, mainly descendants of people who left Estonia before and especially during World War II. According to the 2021 American Community Survey , around 29,000 Americans reported full or partial Estonian ancestry, [ 1 ] up from 26,762 in 1990 .
Põhjamaad means both "Nordic countries" and "Northern countries" in the modern Estonian language.Whereas very few Estonians self-identify as Scandinavians, the ethnic Estonians' homeland has been almost invariably referred to as põhjamaa ("Northern country", instead of "Western" or "Eastern" country), both in Estonian popular culture and media, as well as in surveys of public opinion and ...
Before 1918, when Estonia became an independent country, around half [1] of the country's ethnic Estonian population carried foreign language (mostly German) or "foreign-sounding", i.e. non-Estonian surnames. In the 1920s, and especially in the 1930s, the government promoted a nationwide voluntary "surname Estonianization campaign".