#JohanAndreasStrohm (1744-89) is recorded as owning an inn at #Tatari 1 in 1786, as well as 4 others in the suburbs. I’m not saying they were related, but I’m not saying they weren’t...

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#Tõusu (Tõus)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Merivälja
1) #FloodTide, rising tide; 2) #Rise, upsurge, advance, boom. Partner to #Mõõna.

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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Maritime #Merendus
#Season #Aastaajad
#Celestial #Taevalik

#Tuletorni (Tuletorn)
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Ülemiste
Apparently a renaming of #PäePõik, road leading up to #TallinnaÜlemineTuletorn, or Tallinn upper lighthouse, aka Katharinenthal Rear Light, but actually the Tallinn leading-line rear lighthouse.

#Infrastructure #Taristu
#Maritime #Merendus

#Toodra (Tooder)
#SparBuoy. Quite literally that: a buoy with a tall, thin spar sticking up vertically, either affixed to a regular buoy, or anchored to the ocean floor. Street formerly in #Paljassaare.

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#Maritime #Merendus
#Infrastructure #Taristu

#Taagi (Taak)
#Historical #Ajalooline
#Stay, as in forestay, mizzen stay, etc., synonym of #staak. See #Paagi and #Toodri.

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#Maritime #Merendus
#Infrastructure #Taristu

#Rumbi (Rumb)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Sadama
#Rhumb, loxodromic curve, any of the compass’s 36 points.

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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Compass #Kompass
#Maritime #Merendus

#Meremehe (Meremees)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Pirita
#Seaman, sailor, seafarer. One of an occupational street-name group. See #Metsavahi.

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#Maritime #Merendus

#Liivaranna (Liivarand)
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Kakumäe
Sandy beach, sandy shore. Bordering the Kakumäe laht (bay).

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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Maritime #Merendus
#Geography #Geograafia
#Water #Vesi

#Laevastiku (Laevastik)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Paljassaare
#Fleet, shipping, navy. Close to Paljassaare harbor.

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#Maritime #Merendus
#Ship #Laev

#Masti (Mast)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Pirita
#Mast. Previously known as #Männi, pine (1923-1958), with a (mis-)spell as #Männa (also from #mänd), either a wooden whisk, probably pine, or a traditional embroidered, woven or knitted octagonal pattern (1938-1939). See also #Purje.

#Maritime #Merendus

Choose your colors wisely. Street names indicated by an #adjective (occasionally an #adverb or #attributive) are in the nominative (see #Kollane). See also #Roheline.

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#Color #Värv
#Infrastructure #Taristu
#Maritime #Merendus
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#Tõusu (Tõus)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Merivälja
1) #Flood #tide, rising tide; also 2) #Rise, #upsurge, advance, boom. Partner to #Mõõna.

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#Celestial #Taevalik
#Maritime #Merendus
#Water #Vesi

to do with today’s ‘station’ (same root though) but from #MLG #bāne, bān meaning “(long/wide), open space” (see #SuurPatarei and Luite). Now only a tower in the old city wall.

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#Industry #Tööstus
#Maritime #Merendus

#Paali (Paal)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Sadama? (apparently...)
Nautical term covering a range of similar objects: #pile, as in a deeply-driven foundational #pillar, #mooringpost or, perhaps, #bollard. New street “in the docks”, but nobody knows where.

Anyone?

#Maritime #Merendus
#Harbor #Sadam

#Topi (Topp)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Pirita
#Top, masthead. Street near #Purje and #Regati.

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#Maritime #Merendus
#Ships #Laevad

Not to be confused with #EML (#EestiMereväeLaev, lit. Estonian Naval Ship) Wambola (M311), ex ‘#Cuxhaven’ of #GermanNavy, given to #Estonia in 2003.

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#Military #Sõjaline
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#that used to be called Uus #Holland (New Holland) due to its gradual rise from the sea over the past 200 years and hence former waterlogged soil and rivers (see #Paljassaare). Streets now occupying some of the wasteland north of #Tuukri.
#Maritime #Merendus
#WaterRelatedStreets #VeeteedeTänavad
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Eng. #railing) or #reelingulatt, the general consensus seems to be the lath of wood fitted onto the upper edge of the board for its multiple functional purposes.
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#Ships #Laevad

Kagu (Kagu)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Kivimäe #Pääsküla
South-east, south-eastern, south-easterly. Also #süüdoost or #süüdost among sailors. See also #Edela.
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#CompassPoints #KompassiSuunad
#Maritime #Merendus

#Majaka (Majakas)
Lighthouse, beacon. After the nearby #TallinnaÜlemineTuletorn, or Tallinn upper lighthouse. See #Tuletorni and #Valge.
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#Maritime #Merendus
#Infrastructure #Taristu

#Ranniku (Rannik)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Merivälja #Mähe
Coast, seashore, litoral. Street running EW almost perpendicular to the sea in #Merivälja.
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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Maritime #Merendus
#Geography #Geograafia

Today it is painted an increasingly-fading brick-red where the previous red lighthouse #Majaka is painted black and white.
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#Vaate (Vaade)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #AllLinn
1) Look, glance, eye; 2) Sight, spectacle, view, opinion, retrospect. Overlooking #TallinnaReidi, or Tallinn #Roads, in Tallinn bay.
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#Meriaia (Meriaed)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Merivälja
Nautical garden, seaside gardens... As indeed it is, not a street.
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#ParksAndGardens #PargidJaAiad

Today, the latter being more occupied with saber-rattling and interfering with Baltic maritime infrastructure, it is used for the more peaceful purposes of yachting.
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#Military #Sõjaline
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#Purje (Puri)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Pirita
Sail. In the Pirita sailing section. See also #Regati.
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#Maritime #Merendus
#Leisure #VabaAeg
#Sport #Spordid
#Ships #Laevad
#Wind #Tuul

#Regati (Regatt)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Pirita
Regatta. Home of the #Olümpiapurjespordikeskus, Olympic (or Pirita) yachting center (see #Jahimehe), aka TOP: #TallinnaOlümpiaPurjespordikeskus, built for the 1980 Summer #Olympics. See also #Rummu.
#Maritime #Merendus
#Sport #Spordid
#Leisure #VabaAeg

#Mõõna (Mõõn)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Merivälja
Ebb, low tide. Ebb and flow is mõõn ja tõus, and the street does indeed meet up with #Tõusu. One of the three Tallinn streets with a double ‘õ’, see also #Lõõtsa and #Rõõmu.
#Maritime #Merendus
#WaterRelatedStreets #VeeteedeTänavad

June 1958 – #Taagi (stay, as in #forestay, mizzen stay, etc.) and #Toodri (spar buoy) – all three of which elongated vertical structures, more a sea mark type of beacon than a buoy.
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Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Köie.

View along Köie, Tallinn, from in the Noole direction.

More or less 100-year-old wooden apartment building in Köie, Tallinn.

Ageing doorway in Köie, Tallinn.

Köie (Köis)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kalamaja
Rope, cable. After the former rope-making community of #Köismäe.
#Industry #Tööstus
#Trades #Kaubandused
#Maritime #Merendus
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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad