Doorway with dark green geometrical shapes on the door paneling, and a layered, four-deep, brick archway around it, in Kalevi, Tallinn..

Relatively plain, cream-colored doorway with chest-high bas relief panels in Kalevi, Tallinn..

Relatively new, robust flagstaff holder in Kalevi, Tallinn.

Old, and severely rust-degraded flagstaff holder in Kalevi, Tallinn.

a town called #Qlwny (قلوري or قلوني or قلون?... original untraced) – which, adding the absent vowels, does resemble #Kolyvan – in the geography he completed for #Roger_II_of_Sicily in 1154, Nuzhat al-muštāq fī iḫtirāq al-āfāq, better known as #TabulaRogeriana or, simpler still, Roger’s Book.
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One of a selection of buildings in Kalevi, Tallinn, this one white, modern, geometric and symmetric.

One of a selection of buildings in Kalevi, Tallinn, this one in typical Tallinn mustard yellow.

One of a selection of buildings in Kalevi, Tallinn, these in various colors, brick red, olive green and blue from front to back.

One of a selection of buildings in Kalevi, Tallinn, this one the Salme cultural senter seen from the back and side.

the #EasternSlavs knew as #Kolyvan, and Al Idrisi, aka Abu Abd Allah Muhammad al-Idrisi al-Qurtubi al-Hasani al-Sabti (أبو عبد الله محمد الإدريسي), #Arab cartographer (his determination of the source of the #Nile eliminated the then theory that it was on a hill on the #moon), apparently included
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