#Pääsküla (Pääsküla) #Asum
Tallinn suburb renowned for its landfill and library. etc., etc.
Going through my 'final' revisions, I may have been a bit unfair w Pääsküla, one of my first 100 or so entries so still very new to all this.
Is #prügimägi the first thing that comes to your mind?
Or?...
#Paljassaare #asum (Paljassaar)
Bare or bleak island. Northernmost Sub-district of #PõhjaTallinn, #Paljassaar is as much peninsula, road, harbor, bird reserve as host to Tallinn’s primary sewage plant with 20 settling tanks and 200,000 m² of sludge-drying beds. It was also, 10,000 years ago,
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Coat of arms of the Nõmme District in Tallinn: top-left diagonal half, pale brown with stylized, green heather-like plant, and its reverse on the bottom right half. With, again, apologies for my ignorance of heraldic nomenclature.
#Nõmme (Nõmm) #Linnaosa #Asum
Heath, moor, moorland. An odd one: although the #nõminative is #Nõmm, as far as streets or Districts are concerned, it’s never used. Elsewhere (e.g. #Harjuorg, etc.) the occasional District is in the nominative for
Read more:
tallinnstreets.com/en/nomme
Old enamel Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Kopli on a brown wooden fence with leafy background.
Traditional old wood-panelled house in Kopli, Tallinn with decorative window motifs either side of the main door and a beautifully unkempt garden in front.
This looks like what may once have been a semi-underground storage cellar for potatos and other staples. Found in a Kopli apartment garden in Tallinn.
Apartment house in Kopli, Tallinn, with curved brick 3-storey façade flanked by wood-panelling.
#Kopli (Koppel) #Asum
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn
#Enclosure, #paddock, run. Its current name is deceptive as to its history. A koppel is indeed a paddock (but also...
Read more: tallinnstreets.com/en/kopli
And I hope you do read more. I'd love to see what you think!
Map of Livonia dating to the 16th or 17th century showing today's Baltic states as then perceived, with Paljassaare's Suur-Kaarli and Väike-Kaarli (big & little ‘Charles’) islands somewhere off the coast of Memel, today's Klaipeda, Lithuania.
Woltemate’s updside-down (but presented "normally" for better understanding) 1689 map of Paljassaare with the names of Suur-Kaarli and Väike-Kaarli (big & little ‘Charles’) islands indicated.
Holmberg’s 1689 map of Paljassaare with the Suur-Kaarli and Väike-Kaarli (big & little ‘Charles’) islands depicted and named Kahl and perhaps Holmar.
Franckenberg's updside-down 1726 map showing the islands and sandbanks stretching nearly all the way to Kopli.
#Paljassaare (Paljassaar) #Asum
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn
Bare, bleak island. #Paljassaar is as much peninsula, District, road, harbor, bird reserve as host to...
tallinnstreets.com/en/paljassaare
Googe map of Tallinn town center, outlining the "Südalinn" Sub-district.
#Südalinn (0) #Asum
#Tallinn #Kesklinn
Town center, lit. town heart.
Read more: tallinnstreets.com/en/suedalinn...
Birdhouse carved out of wood, featuring a long-bearded, pipe-smoking man with and eye socket at entrance for birds, seen in Tõnismägi (St Anthony's mount), on Tõnismäe, Tallinn.
Red-briecked, neo-gothic-style Latvian consulate in Tõnismäe (St Anthony's mount), Tallinn.
Front façade of the National Library of Estonia in Tõnismäe (St Anthony's mount), Tallinn.
Stylized sculpture of male and female nude couple in Tõnismägi (St Anthony's mount), on Tõnismäe, Tallinn.
#Tõnismäe (Tõnismägi) #Asum
#StAnthonysMountain or hill. Confusingly, Tõnismäe, the #District, is #genitive while
Read more: tallinnstreets.com/en/tonismaee
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
For reasons of time, winding many hashtags down since they will be associated with articles.
Liiva (Liiv) #Asum
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Nõmme #Rahumäe
Sand, gravel. Sand. Having been a subliminal silicon layer of the country’s chthonic consciousness, it has been the alter ego of multiple highways and byways of Tallinn and...
#Priisle (Priisle) #Asum
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Priisle
Street and Sub-district of Lasnamäe, suburb a few km (±5) WSW of Tallinn center. Named after earlier farm or hamlet it was built upon. For reasons I confess I am unlikely ever to fathom, the District name changed from #Priisli in 1970, which
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#Pääsküla (Pääsküla) #Asum
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Pääsküla
Tallinn suburb renowned for its landfill and library. First recorded as #Peskulae in the #LiberCensusDaniae (LCD) and assumed named after a ford over nearby river and related to the term #läbipääs, or passage, walkway. One 19th-C
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#Ülemistejärve (0) #Asum
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Ülemistejärve
See #Ülemiste and #Järve. NB: we’re at the end of the dictionary so it should be clear by now. The lake itself is a #placename and thus #nominative, #Ülemiste #Järv, while this is the #Sub-district and therefore #genitive, and, being
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#Sibulaküla (Sibulaküla) #Asum
#Tallinn #Kesklinn
#OnionVillage. Named after the small plots of ‘farmland’ or allotments around the #Kaasani orthodox church, many of which grew onions, or after the church’s typical onion-shaped dome. The church – completed in 1721, severely damaged during the
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#Sikupilli (Sikupill) #Asum
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Sikupilli
#Bagpipes, lit. #goat’s instrument. Named after nearby inn. What is a #ShoppingCenter today was a #prison in the late-19th C and, prior to that, a #hospital, but its damp #limestone walls didn’t do the patients’ health much good, which
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It includes the following #Asumid (Sub-districts): #Kadaka, #Mustamäe, #Siili and #Sääse. See #Nõmme.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Linnaosa #District
#Asum #SubDistrict
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Mustamäe (Mustamägi) #Linnaosa #Asum
#BlackHill, black mountain. Although use of the word ‘mountain’ is questionable (see #Mäe for discussion). Most capital cities have buildings taller than Estonia’s mountains. Right or wrong, the nominative #Mustamägi is sometimes heard. Even saying
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#Pirita (Pirita) #Linnaosa #Asum
#Tallinn #Pirita #Kesklinn #Maarjamäe #Pirita #Kadriorg
xAfter Birgitta Birgersdotter, Saint Bridget of Sweden, 1303-1373. The Brigittine sisters first arrived in Estonia in 1412, five years after its founding. Host to the annual Birgitta Music Festival,
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#Kose (Kosk) #Asum
#Tallinn #Pirita #Kose #Lükati
#Waterfall, rapids, after the same on a bend on the #Pirita river.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Geography #Geograafia
#River #Jõgi
#Water #Vesi
#Kalamaja (Kalamaja) #Asum
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kalamaja
#FishermansHut, name of a one-time fishing village, along with the three ages of man: #UusKalamaja (new, but let’s say ‘young’ for poetic license), #Kesk- (Middle-aged), and #Vana- (Old). The word #maja, probably first meant a temporary
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#Uuslinn (0) #Asum
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe
#Newtown. See #Vanalinn. Note nominative form for District name as opposed to street, below. But see #Tõnismäe / #Tõnismägi.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Municipality #Omavalitsus
#Lilleküla (Lilleküla) #Asum
#Tallinn #Kristiine
#FlowerVillage, a Sub-district inhabited, oddly, more by bird street-names, but some flowers and random volatile spare parts too. With 50+ streets, this is almost certainly the largest street-name zone in #Tallinn.
#Mustjõe (Mustjõgi) #Asum
#Black #river (see #Mustjõgi). Street formerly known as Sarlotte, #Scharlottentali, Scharlottentaler, Шарлоттентальская ул until 1939; district previously named after Charlottentali #mõis (manor house) in #Haabersti.
#Geography #Geograafia
#River #Jõgi
#ManorHouse
#Pae (Paas) #Asum
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Sikupilli #Ülemiste #Pae
#Limestone. One of a rock-based neighborhood. See its synonym #Paekivi.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Geology #Geoloogia
#Lubjakivi
#Merivälja (Meriväli) #Asum
#Tallinn #Pirita #Mähe #Kaasiku #Merivälja
Open land by the sea, seaview plains/field, etc. See #Välja. The #MeriväljaHiidrahn erratic is at ///bagels.perfume.resolve.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Erratic #Rändrahn
#Iru (Iru) #Asum
#Tallinn #Pirita
Inn, hill and probably one-time village on the NE border of Tallinn, or the one-time standing boulder at ///wristwatch.stony.overtax, #IruÄmm, Iru’s mother-in-law or the #OldWomanOfIru, into which #Linda – #Kalevipoeg’s mother, having been abducted and
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#Kloostrimetsa (Kloostrimets) #Asum
#Tallinn #Pirita #Kloostrimetsa #Lepiku #Laiaküla
#Abbey, cloister, monastery, convent woods. Passes by #Pirita convent.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Religion #Religioon
#Forest #Mets
#Ülemiste (Ülemiste) #Asum
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Ülemiste
Lake, now reservoir, in Tallinn, and mythological character: the little old man of Ülemiste, #ÜlemisteVanake. Legend has it that he checks the city out every year and, if told it’s now complete, will flood it. Why?
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Loopealse (Loopealne) #Asum
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Loopealse
#Grassland ridgeway? See #Loo and #Mäepealse.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Geography #Geograafia
#Geology #Geoloogia
#Merimetsa (Merimets) #Asum
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Merimetsa #Pelgulinn
Woods beside the sea. As indeed they are. The name is actually a translation from the #German ‘#Seewald’, the name of the summer manor donated by #BaronessMarieGirardDeSoucanton (see #RoccaAlMare) for the creation of a
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#Veskimetsa (Veskimets) #Asum
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Kristiine #Mustjõe #Lilleküla #Marja
#Mill woods, woods near/by the mill. Host to a a wind-themed group. See #Veskimäe.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Agriculture #PõlluMajandus
#Forest #Mets
#Keldrimäe (Keldrimägi) #Asum
#CellarHill, named after a large concrete ‘cellar’ (underground storage facility?) in the neighborhood (see #Mäe for discussion). Known formerly as #Israelgasse (1893) plus variants Iisraeli (1921), #Израильская ул (1907), but mainly #Israeli (1885-1954),
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