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  Estonia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
In 1993 Estonia signed a free-trade agreement with its fellow Baltic states, Latvia and Lithuania; the three nations became members of the European Union in 2004.
Northern Estonia then passed to Sweden; the rest was briefly held by Poland but was transferred to the Swedes by the Treaty of Altmark (1629), which ended the first Polish-Swedish war.
In Mar., 1990, amid increasing liberalization in the USSR, the Estonian Supreme Soviet declared invalid the 1940 annexation by the USSR.
www.bartleby.com /65/es/Estonia.html   (1336 words)

  
 Estonia History and Counties with country briefs
Country Briefs: Estonia covers an area of around 45,000 square kilometers and is relatively larger than countries such as Slovenia, Holland, Denmark, and Switzerland and is smaller in size to New Hampshire and Massachusetts taken together.
Geographically, Estonia is bordered by Gulf of Finland in the north, Baltic Sea in the west, Russia in the east and Latvia towards the south.
As a result of this pact Estonia was occupied by soviet troops in 1940.
www.ezilon.com /about-estonia.htm   (474 words)

  
 Denmark, Denmark Chronicle :: Travel to Denmark :: Denmark Journey :: Denmark Travel Guide
Estonia (in Estonian, Eesti), formerly Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, now known as the Republic of Estonia, republic in north-eastern Europe, bounded on the north by the Gulf of Finland, on the east by Russia, on the south by Latvia, and on the west by the Baltic Sea.
The Republic of Estonia is a country in Northern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the north.
Estonia 's fights for freedom during the twentieth century were in large part a reaction to nearly 700 years of foreign rule.
estonia.europe-chronicle.com   (1602 words)

  
 Estonia
It is bounded on the north by the Gulf of Finland (an inlet of the Baltic Sea), on the east by Russia, on the south by Latvia, and on the west by the Baltic Sea.
Estonia is in the northern part of the temperate zone in a transition between maritime and continental climates.
The high-productive fodder Galega (Galega orientalis) cultivar Gale (bred in Estonia 1987) is a well-known legume for Estonian farmers.
www.fao.org /AG/AGP/AGPC/doc/Counprof/Estonia/estonia.htm   (6346 words)

  
 Finance Choices - Personal Finance Wiki
County identity is heavily reinforced in the local culture by allegiances to county teams in Hurling and Gaelic Football.
The county of Oslo is equivalent to the municipality of Oslo.
At the county level there is a county administrative board led by a governor appointed by the central government of Sweden, as well as an elected county council that handles a separate set of issues, notably hospitals and public transportation.
www.financechoices.co.uk /personal-finance-wiki.php?title=County   (2773 words)

  
 Estonia (04/07)
Estonia has developed into a strong international actor, through its membership in the EU and NATO; it is a capable advocate and promoter of stability and democracy in the former Soviet Union and beyond.
Estonia is a parliamentary democracy, with a 101-member parliament (the Riigikogu) and a president who is elected indirectly by parliament or, if no candidate wins a two-thirds majority in parliament, by an electoral college composed of members of parliament and of local government representatives.
Estonia also is represented in the United States by a Consulate General in New York and three Honorary Consuls: Jaak Treiman in Los Angeles, Mart Kask in Seattle, and Scott E. Schul in Maine.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/5377.htm   (4637 words)

  
 County planning as engine for local development
One of the objectives of county planning is specifying and complementing of the tasks enacted by the law and unifying of the methodology of county planning in collegial cooperation of county governments.
Estonia has got a unique chance -national planning is carried out at the same time with county plannings, as well as with comprehensive plannings of several towns and rural municipalities.
As county planning and national level planning have been going on at the same time, a number of nationally important development ideas have been born in interaction of these two processes, the main objective of which is speeding up local development.
www.geo.ut.ee /nbc/paper/lass.htm   (2245 words)

  
 Estonia Counties
Estonia was occupied by the army of the Soviet Union in 1940, and became a constituent republic of the U.S.S.R., the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, on 1940-08-06.
The largest ones are Saaremaa (Saare county), Hiiumaa (Hiiu county), Muhu, and Vormsi in the Baltic Sea, Ruhnu and Kihnu in the Gulf of Riga, Nais, Osmus, and Prangli in the Gulf of Finland, and Piiri in Lake Peipus.
All of the counties may be written with -maa suffixed to their names, especially Hiiumaa and Saaremaa, which are also island names.
www.statoids.com /uee.html   (557 words)

  
 HotBot Web Search for ESTONIA
Estonia, country in northeastern Europe, located on the eastern end of the Baltic Sea.
Estonia is the northernmost and smallest of the Baltic...
Estonia retained a pagan religion centered around a deity called Tharapita.
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 Estonia names nine new sites
The area is the largest one left in Estonia with almost no human influence.
The Puhtu-Laelatu wetland (4,050 ha) is a chain of shallow inland bays or lagoons on the coast of Läänemaa County, some 115 km southwest of Tallinn, and is an important stop-over and transit migration place for waterfowl.
Vilsandi National Park in Saare County and the west side of Saaremaa Island covers a large wilderness area (24,100 ha) of varied coastal landscape with archipelago with as many as 160 islands and islets, as well as shallow bays and sand dunes.
www.ramsar.org /wn/w.n.estonia_nine.htm   (890 words)

  
 Estonia Europe. Tallinn Pictures, Travel, Economy and Map
Since the last Russian troops left in 1994, Estonia has been free to promote economic and political ties with Western Europe.
Estonia, as a new member of the World Trade Organization, is steadily moving toward a modern market economy with increasing ties to the West, including the pegging of its currency to the euro.
Estonia has been invited to join the European Union and will do so in May 2004.
estonia.europe-countries.com   (421 words)

  
 Tourism.ee - Estonia. Tourism and Travel in Estonia, Tallinn, Tartu, Pärnu.
TALLINN - Estonia is facing a billion-kroon (64 million euro) fine from the European Commission for failing to...
Helen Teesalu writes that for years she had thought that symbols characteristic to Ida-Viru County were oil shale...
Adventuur ltd is one of the three biggest companies in estonia which organizes downhill and snowboard trips to slovakia
www.tourism.ee   (284 words)

  
 Estonia [ City Population: Cities, Towns, Countries & Provinces, Statistics & Maps ]
Estonia [ City Population: Cities, Towns, Countries & Provinces, Statistics & Maps ]
The counties of Estonia and all cities of more than 5,000 inhabitants.
(1989) (2000) (2007) Statistical Office of Estonia (web).
www.citypopulation.de /Estonia.html   (41 words)

  
 Estonia StartPage
Language technology: what we have and what we need
I hope you like this NEW Estonia web page alot!
We are still building on it so new links will appear
ee.coolbegin.com   (45 words)

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