#Kura (Kura)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu
No-one seems to know... The obvious solution that comes to mind relates to Kuramaa, Courland, the county, region and former Duchy of Kurzeme in present-day Latvia. On the island of Kihnu, for example...
Read more:
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#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu
No-one seems to know... The obvious solution that comes to mind relates to Kuramaa, Courland, the county, region and former Duchy of Kurzeme in present-day Latvia. On the island of Kihnu, for example...
Read more:
tallinnstreets.com/en/kura
January 13, 2026 at 12:29 PM
#Kura (Kura)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu
No-one seems to know... The obvious solution that comes to mind relates to Kuramaa, Courland, the county, region and former Duchy of Kurzeme in present-day Latvia. On the island of Kihnu, for example...
Read more:
tallinnstreets.com/en/kura
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu
No-one seems to know... The obvious solution that comes to mind relates to Kuramaa, Courland, the county, region and former Duchy of Kurzeme in present-day Latvia. On the island of Kihnu, for example...
Read more:
tallinnstreets.com/en/kura
#Viljandi (Viljandi)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Kesklinn #Liiva #Kitseküla #Raudalu
Town in southern #Estonia first mentioned in 1283, although hill-fort mentioned by #AlIdrisi in 1154. Formerly known as #Fellinn, or #Velyad or #Velnevik. Major fortification of the #Hanseatic #LivonianOrder, today home to
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#Tallinn #Nõmme #Kesklinn #Liiva #Kitseküla #Raudalu
Town in southern #Estonia first mentioned in 1283, although hill-fort mentioned by #AlIdrisi in 1154. Formerly known as #Fellinn, or #Velyad or #Velnevik. Major fortification of the #Hanseatic #LivonianOrder, today home to
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December 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
#Viljandi (Viljandi)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Kesklinn #Liiva #Kitseküla #Raudalu
Town in southern #Estonia first mentioned in 1283, although hill-fort mentioned by #AlIdrisi in 1154. Formerly known as #Fellinn, or #Velyad or #Velnevik. Major fortification of the #Hanseatic #LivonianOrder, today home to
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#Tallinn #Nõmme #Kesklinn #Liiva #Kitseküla #Raudalu
Town in southern #Estonia first mentioned in 1283, although hill-fort mentioned by #AlIdrisi in 1154. Formerly known as #Fellinn, or #Velyad or #Velnevik. Major fortification of the #Hanseatic #LivonianOrder, today home to
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#Hõberebase (Hõberebane)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu
Silver fox, Vulpes vulpes. One of the streets named after the nearby #RakuSovhoos (see #Karuse).
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Animals #Loomad
#Mammals #Imetajad
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu
Silver fox, Vulpes vulpes. One of the streets named after the nearby #RakuSovhoos (see #Karuse).
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Animals #Loomad
#Mammals #Imetajad
August 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM
#Hõberebase (Hõberebane)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu
Silver fox, Vulpes vulpes. One of the streets named after the nearby #RakuSovhoos (see #Karuse).
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Animals #Loomad
#Mammals #Imetajad
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu
Silver fox, Vulpes vulpes. One of the streets named after the nearby #RakuSovhoos (see #Karuse).
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Animals #Loomad
#Mammals #Imetajad
#Kõnnu (Kõnd)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu
Wasteland, desert, desolate. Known as #Kanarbiku until 1958. Part of the sinister-street area, see also #Kume and #Kura. PSA: despite what you see on #YouTube, #Hiiumaa’s #KaibaldiLiivik (Kaibaldi sandbank) is not a #kõnd and doesn’t like being called one.
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu
Wasteland, desert, desolate. Known as #Kanarbiku until 1958. Part of the sinister-street area, see also #Kume and #Kura. PSA: despite what you see on #YouTube, #Hiiumaa’s #KaibaldiLiivik (Kaibaldi sandbank) is not a #kõnd and doesn’t like being called one.
August 29, 2025 at 6:30 AM
#Kõnnu (Kõnd)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu
Wasteland, desert, desolate. Known as #Kanarbiku until 1958. Part of the sinister-street area, see also #Kume and #Kura. PSA: despite what you see on #YouTube, #Hiiumaa’s #KaibaldiLiivik (Kaibaldi sandbank) is not a #kõnd and doesn’t like being called one.
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu
Wasteland, desert, desolate. Known as #Kanarbiku until 1958. Part of the sinister-street area, see also #Kume and #Kura. PSA: despite what you see on #YouTube, #Hiiumaa’s #KaibaldiLiivik (Kaibaldi sandbank) is not a #kõnd and doesn’t like being called one.
#Hiidtamme (Hiidtamm)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu
Giant oak. The #hiid > #hiie (see next entry), #hiidtamm > #hiietamm relation is interesting: it is quite likely that simply becoming large, over human generations, gives it ‘sacred’ qualities too. See #Tamme.
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
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#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu
Giant oak. The #hiid > #hiie (see next entry), #hiidtamm > #hiietamm relation is interesting: it is quite likely that simply becoming large, over human generations, gives it ‘sacred’ qualities too. See #Tamme.
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
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May 1, 2025 at 6:30 AM
#Hiidtamme (Hiidtamm)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu
Giant oak. The #hiid > #hiie (see next entry), #hiidtamm > #hiietamm relation is interesting: it is quite likely that simply becoming large, over human generations, gives it ‘sacred’ qualities too. See #Tamme.
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
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#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu
Giant oak. The #hiid > #hiie (see next entry), #hiidtamm > #hiietamm relation is interesting: it is quite likely that simply becoming large, over human generations, gives it ‘sacred’ qualities too. See #Tamme.
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
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#Männimetsa (Männimets)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Laagri
Pine forest. The #Raudalu #SuurKivi (big stone) is just off the road at either ///gosh.tigers.tonight or ///castle.oval.octopus according to source.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Laagri
Pine forest. The #Raudalu #SuurKivi (big stone) is just off the road at either ///gosh.tigers.tonight or ///castle.oval.octopus according to source.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
July 8, 2025 at 6:30 AM
#Männimetsa (Männimets)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Laagri
Pine forest. The #Raudalu #SuurKivi (big stone) is just off the road at either ///gosh.tigers.tonight or ///castle.oval.octopus according to source.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Laagri
Pine forest. The #Raudalu #SuurKivi (big stone) is just off the road at either ///gosh.tigers.tonight or ///castle.oval.octopus according to source.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Raudalu (Raudalu)
No street, Division only. In the early 19th C, it was called, indiscriminately, Raudalsche Straße, Raudarrosche Straße and Rappelsche Straße. While you can discern the original destination in the last #German name, in #Estonian it stands out loud and clear: #Rapla.
#Tallinn
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No street, Division only. In the early 19th C, it was called, indiscriminately, Raudalsche Straße, Raudarrosche Straße and Rappelsche Straße. While you can discern the original destination in the last #German name, in #Estonian it stands out loud and clear: #Rapla.
#Tallinn
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January 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
#Halu (Halg)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu
Piece of firewood, log. The arsonist or insurance-broker street group. Visitors to Tallinn in the 2000s may have noticed the occasional building gutted, razed and charred. The town has no higher propensity to cameral conflagration than any other metropolis
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#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu
Piece of firewood, log. The arsonist or insurance-broker street group. Visitors to Tallinn in the 2000s may have noticed the occasional building gutted, razed and charred. The town has no higher propensity to cameral conflagration than any other metropolis
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July 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
#Sinirebase (Sinirebane)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu
#BlueFox, aka #polaarrebane, arctic, or #jäärebane, ice fox, #VulpesLagopus. Next to its cousin, #Hõberebase. One of the streets named after the nearby #RakuSovhoos.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Animals #Loomad
Mammals #Imetajad
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu
#BlueFox, aka #polaarrebane, arctic, or #jäärebane, ice fox, #VulpesLagopus. Next to its cousin, #Hõberebase. One of the streets named after the nearby #RakuSovhoos.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Animals #Loomad
Mammals #Imetajad
November 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM
#Sinirebase (Sinirebane)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu
#BlueFox, aka #polaarrebane, arctic, or #jäärebane, ice fox, #VulpesLagopus. Next to its cousin, #Hõberebase. One of the streets named after the nearby #RakuSovhoos.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Animals #Loomad
Mammals #Imetajad
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu
#BlueFox, aka #polaarrebane, arctic, or #jäärebane, ice fox, #VulpesLagopus. Next to its cousin, #Hõberebase. One of the streets named after the nearby #RakuSovhoos.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Animals #Loomad
Mammals #Imetajad
#Raku (Rakk) #Allasum
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu #Raku
1) Cell (organic), bladder, air-bladder (in fish), cell of a beehive, blister; 2) Small wooden pail. Ward (allasum) home to the former #RakuTõukarusloomakasvatusSovhoos (Soviet state pedigree fur farm) aka #RakuSovhoos, on the corner of
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#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu #Raku
1) Cell (organic), bladder, air-bladder (in fish), cell of a beehive, blister; 2) Small wooden pail. Ward (allasum) home to the former #RakuTõukarusloomakasvatusSovhoos (Soviet state pedigree fur farm) aka #RakuSovhoos, on the corner of
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August 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
#Raku (Rakk) #Allasum
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu #Raku
1) Cell (organic), bladder, air-bladder (in fish), cell of a beehive, blister; 2) Small wooden pail. Ward (allasum) home to the former #RakuTõukarusloomakasvatusSovhoos (Soviet state pedigree fur farm) aka #RakuSovhoos, on the corner of
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#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu #Raku
1) Cell (organic), bladder, air-bladder (in fish), cell of a beehive, blister; 2) Small wooden pail. Ward (allasum) home to the former #RakuTõukarusloomakasvatusSovhoos (Soviet state pedigree fur farm) aka #RakuSovhoos, on the corner of
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#Kume (Kume)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu
Hollow, dull, cloudy weather, glimmering (in the faint or twilight sense, cf. #Tennyson’s use of glimmer-gowk for the owl, probably the barn-own). Part of the sinister-street area, see also #Kura.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Weather #Ilm
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu
Hollow, dull, cloudy weather, glimmering (in the faint or twilight sense, cf. #Tennyson’s use of glimmer-gowk for the owl, probably the barn-own). Part of the sinister-street area, see also #Kura.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Weather #Ilm
August 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
#Kume (Kume)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu
Hollow, dull, cloudy weather, glimmering (in the faint or twilight sense, cf. #Tennyson’s use of glimmer-gowk for the owl, probably the barn-own). Part of the sinister-street area, see also #Kura.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Weather #Ilm
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu
Hollow, dull, cloudy weather, glimmering (in the faint or twilight sense, cf. #Tennyson’s use of glimmer-gowk for the owl, probably the barn-own). Part of the sinister-street area, see also #Kura.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Weather #Ilm
#Mustika (Mustikas)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu #Raku
#Bilberry, whortleberry, blaeberry, blueberry, #VaccinumMyrtillus. One of two berry streets in Raku. See #Kaarla.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Plant #Taim
#Berry #Mari
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu #Raku
#Bilberry, whortleberry, blaeberry, blueberry, #VaccinumMyrtillus. One of two berry streets in Raku. See #Kaarla.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Plant #Taim
#Berry #Mari
November 5, 2025 at 7:30 AM
#Mustika (Mustikas)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu #Raku
#Bilberry, whortleberry, blaeberry, blueberry, #VaccinumMyrtillus. One of two berry streets in Raku. See #Kaarla.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Plant #Taim
#Berry #Mari
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu #Raku
#Bilberry, whortleberry, blaeberry, blueberry, #VaccinumMyrtillus. One of two berry streets in Raku. See #Kaarla.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Plant #Taim
#Berry #Mari
#Kõnnu (Kõnd)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu
Wasteland, desert, desolate. Known as #Kanarbiku until 1958. Part of the sinister-street area, see also #Kume. PSA: despite what you see on YouTube, #Hiiumaa's #KaibaldiLiivik (Kaibaldi sandbank) is not a #kõnd and doesn’t like being called one.
#Sand #Liiv
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu
Wasteland, desert, desolate. Known as #Kanarbiku until 1958. Part of the sinister-street area, see also #Kume. PSA: despite what you see on YouTube, #Hiiumaa's #KaibaldiLiivik (Kaibaldi sandbank) is not a #kõnd and doesn’t like being called one.
#Sand #Liiv
August 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
#Kõnnu (Kõnd)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu
Wasteland, desert, desolate. Known as #Kanarbiku until 1958. Part of the sinister-street area, see also #Kume. PSA: despite what you see on YouTube, #Hiiumaa's #KaibaldiLiivik (Kaibaldi sandbank) is not a #kõnd and doesn’t like being called one.
#Sand #Liiv
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu
Wasteland, desert, desolate. Known as #Kanarbiku until 1958. Part of the sinister-street area, see also #Kume. PSA: despite what you see on YouTube, #Hiiumaa's #KaibaldiLiivik (Kaibaldi sandbank) is not a #kõnd and doesn’t like being called one.
#Sand #Liiv
#Kaarla (Kaarel)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu #Raku
Another name for #rabamurakas, cloudberry or bakeapple in the US, knotberry or knoutberry in the UK, #RubusChamaemorus. See #Murakas. One of two berry streets in #Raku. See #Mustika.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Berries #Marjad
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu #Raku
Another name for #rabamurakas, cloudberry or bakeapple in the US, knotberry or knoutberry in the UK, #RubusChamaemorus. See #Murakas. One of two berry streets in #Raku. See #Mustika.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Berries #Marjad
August 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
#Kaarla (Kaarel)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu #Raku
Another name for #rabamurakas, cloudberry or bakeapple in the US, knotberry or knoutberry in the UK, #RubusChamaemorus. See #Murakas. One of two berry streets in #Raku. See #Mustika.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Berries #Marjad
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu #Raku
Another name for #rabamurakas, cloudberry or bakeapple in the US, knotberry or knoutberry in the UK, #RubusChamaemorus. See #Murakas. One of two berry streets in #Raku. See #Mustika.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Berries #Marjad
#Pinu (Pinu)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu
Pile or stack of (fire-)wood. In a land of abundant forest, trees and woodland, as well as abundant rain, fog, mist, drizzle, sleet, snow, plus hail, mush, slush, bogs, swamps and marshes, it’s good to have a stash of wood and a heap of names to describe it.
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu
Pile or stack of (fire-)wood. In a land of abundant forest, trees and woodland, as well as abundant rain, fog, mist, drizzle, sleet, snow, plus hail, mush, slush, bogs, swamps and marshes, it’s good to have a stash of wood and a heap of names to describe it.
September 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
#Piibri (Piiber)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu
Alternative name for the #beaver from the {German {Biber, which seems to have gradually lost ground to the #Russian loan #Бобры, bobr, switching the bastard ‘b’ for the comfortable ‘k’ to produce #kobras, or #HarilikKobras, the European beaver,
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#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu
Alternative name for the #beaver from the {German {Biber, which seems to have gradually lost ground to the #Russian loan #Бобры, bobr, switching the bastard ‘b’ for the comfortable ‘k’ to produce #kobras, or #HarilikKobras, the European beaver,
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November 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
#Hao (Hagu)
Stick, twig, narrow branch (cut down and) used for firewood, brushwood. Known as #Paluka, red whortleberry, until 1970. See #Halu and #Pinu. See also #Hagudi. But… Given #Estonian’s uneven relationship with aspirates, #Ao, for pre-dawn light or dawn,
#Nõmme #Raudalu
#Trees #Puud
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Stick, twig, narrow branch (cut down and) used for firewood, brushwood. Known as #Paluka, red whortleberry, until 1970. See #Halu and #Pinu. See also #Hagudi. But… Given #Estonian’s uneven relationship with aspirates, #Ao, for pre-dawn light or dawn,
#Nõmme #Raudalu
#Trees #Puud
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March 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
#Liivakalmistu (Liivakalmistu)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Männiku #Liiva #Raudalu
Former (1966) streetname of #Liiva, named after the #LiivaKalmistu, or Liiva Cemetery, largest cemetery in Tallinn, created along with its chapel and memorial to the victims of the Red Terror in 1935,
#Cemeteries #Kalmistud
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#Tallinn #Nõmme #Männiku #Liiva #Raudalu
Former (1966) streetname of #Liiva, named after the #LiivaKalmistu, or Liiva Cemetery, largest cemetery in Tallinn, created along with its chapel and memorial to the victims of the Red Terror in 1935,
#Cemeteries #Kalmistud
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May 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
#Liivakalmistu (Liivakalmistu)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Männiku #Liiva #Raudalu
Former (1966) streetname of #Liiva, named after the #LiivaKalmistu, or Liiva Cemetery, largest cemetery in Tallinn, created along with its chapel and memorial to the victims of the Red Terror in 1935,
#Cemeteries #Kalmistud
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#Tallinn #Nõmme #Männiku #Liiva #Raudalu
Former (1966) streetname of #Liiva, named after the #LiivaKalmistu, or Liiva Cemetery, largest cemetery in Tallinn, created along with its chapel and memorial to the victims of the Red Terror in 1935,
#Cemeteries #Kalmistud
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