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designed by #Reindorff (for information on #Estonian currency, see #Krooni). Street seems to have existed from 1982-1989.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#NotableEstonian #MärkimisväärneEestlane
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#Paekalda (Paekallas) #Allasum
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Paevälja #Paekalda kv
1) #LimestoneBank, shore or bluff (the back of a pre-euro 100-krooni note showed a wave-battered bank (in what must certainly have been an unintentional bilingual pun, for information on #Estonian currency, see #Krooni);
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to replace the northern dialect form #pea (likewise #hää for #hea), but it failed to catch on. His face is on the 10-krooni note (for information on Estonian currency, see #Krooni). Not unexpectedly, given its location in an essentially fish-named area, an old farm name, but see #Otsatalu.
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Tallinn streetsign displaying the name L. Koidula.
Plaque in Estonian and Russian in honor of Lydia Koidula, "Estonian poet and playwright" (Eesti luuletaja ja näitekirjanik, 1843-1886), street named after her in Tallinn.
Portrait of Lydia Koidula on the front of the former Estonian currency 100-krooni bill.
View along Koidula, Tallinn, from the Narva maantee direction.
#Koidula L. (Lydia Koidula, 1843-1886)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kadriorg
Lydia of the Dawn, sobriquet of the bushy-browed Lydia Emilie Florentine Jannsen, Estonian #kirjaneitsi (maiden of letters), poet and journalist. Mugshot on 100-krooni note (for information on #Estonian currency, see #Krooni).
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Doorway in Jakobsoni, Tallinn.
Another doorway in Jakobsoni, Tallinn, this one with limestone walls and leading to basement.
Front of old Estonian 500-Krooni (crown) banknote, featuring C. R. Jakobsoni.
Back of old Estonian 500-Krooni (crown) banknote, featuring the barn swallow (Estonian: suitsupääsuke), about which see Lennuse.
Depicted on the 500-krooni banknote where, interestingly, his beard improved with each printing (for information on Estonian currency, see #Krooni). As a journalist, he contributed to #Postimees but #Jannsen disliked his anti-German, anti-clerical stance (the censor called him
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Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Krooni.
View along Krooni, Tallinn, in the direction of Sakala.
View along Krooni, Tallinn, in the direction of Rävala
Gateway with barbed-wire in front of government buildings in Krooni, Tallinn.
#Krooni (Kroon):
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Südalinn
Crown, national currency until #Estonia entered the #Eurozone on 2011-01-01. Conversion rate was €1 to 15.6466 crowns, and all references to the #kroon are now out of date.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
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Back of the former Estonian currency 10 krooni (10-crown) banknote.
The oldest known oak in #Estonia is the #TammeLauri oak, in #Võrumaa. Almost 700 years old, with a height of 17 m and a chest-height circumference of 8.25 m, it decorated the back of the 10-krooni banknote (for information on Estonian currency, see #Krooni).
#Trees #Puud
#Money #Raha
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Front cover of a book by chess champion Paul Keres and Iivo Nei entitled (in Estonian) Maleaabits, i.e. The ABC of Chess.
#Kerese P. (Paul Keres, 1916-1975)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Nõmme #Männiku
Estonian Chess-Master, for some, the “#Paganini of chess”, for #Spassky the “#Pope of chess”, for others, a face on a 5-krooni note (for information on #Estonian currency, see #Krooni).
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to replace the northern dialect form #pea (likewise #hää for "hea), but it failed to catch on. His face is on the 10-krooni note (for information on Estonian currency, see #Krooni). Not unexpectedly, given its location in an essentially fish-named area, an old farm name, but see #Otsatalu.
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#EstonianOperaHouse on the back (for information on #Estonian currency, see #Krooni). Previously #Slobodi (-1923) after #PeterI’s #RussianQuarter #НоваяСлобода (new sloboda), where #Слобода originally designated a settlement free of certain obligations,
#History #Ajalugu
#Streetnames#Tänavanimed
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chronicling the change from life on the land to life in town in 20th-C #Estonia. His portrait is on the 25-krooni note (for information on Estonian currency, see #Krooni). Clearly, there’s never much money in it for writers...
#Literature #Kirjandus
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