Amazon. #SovietOccupation renaming (1950-1989) of #Kaarli puiestee.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Military #Sõjaline
#NõukogudeOkupatsioon
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#Kaarli (Kaarel)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Tõnismäe #Vanalinn
#Charles (church and road), most likely #Swedish king #KarlXI who had its wooden ancestor built in 1670. The spot on which it stands is believed to have been a #Hiis (see #Hiie) since at least the middle ages.
#Royalty #Kuninglik
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#Toompea [tänav] (Toompea)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #Toompea
‘On the cathedral’. Street originally called Die #DomBrücke (cathedral bridge, 1865) after the wooden bridge over the then moat between #ToompeavVallivärav (Toompea gate) and #Suvorovi A. (now #Kaarli), a project driven
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Clockwise (sorta) from #Toonela there are: #SiselinnaKalmistu, the city (lit. ‘within-the-city’) cemetery, divided into #AleksanderNevski (W) and #Kaarli (E) cemeteries, due S is the #Kaitseväe (Defence Forces) cemetery with its Pronkssõdur (bronze soldier)
#Cemeteries #Kalmistud
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