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2 unusual facts about Narva


Eastland Company

By the first article, the company was erected into a body politic, under the title of the Company of Merchants of the East; to consist of Englishmen, all practicing merchants, who have trafficked through the sound, before the year 1568, into Norway, Sweden, Poland, Livonia, Prussia, Pomerania, etc., and likewise Revel, Königsberg, Dantzic, Copenhagen, etc., excepting Narva, Muscovy, and its dependencies.

Erkki Toivanen

In accordance with his will his ash was scattered over the Blanchisseuse Beach of Walker's West Indian home, just like Toivanen himself had fulfilled the will of his Estonian-born mother in Narva-Jõesuu.


Charles Philip, Duke of Södermanland

Prince Charles Philip of Sweden, Duke of Södermanland, (Swedish: Carl Filip; Alt-Anzen (Vana-Antsla), 22 April 1601 – Narva, 25 January 1622) was a Swedish prince, Duke of Södermanland, Närke and Värmland.

Demographics of Estonia

Major Jewish communities were present in Estonia between 1918 and 1940 in Tallinn, Pärnu, Kilingi-Nõmme, Narva, Tartu, Valga, and Võru.

Egon Christophersen

Christophersen and the 7th Company were dug in south of Narva and east of the Kreenholm beside the borough of Dolgaya Niva.

Intermovement

According to the activist commissions in Narva and Sillamäe, 53.2% percent of voters participated and 98% in total (97.2% in Narva).

Karl Robert Pusta

Karl Robert Pusta (1 March 1883, Narva - 4 May 1964, Madrid) was an Estonian politician and a former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia.

Koogi, Harju County

The TallinnNarva road (nr 1, part of E20) passes Koogi and has an intersection with Jägala–AegviiduKäravete road (nr 13).

Narva culture

As evidence of trade, researchers found pieces of pink flint from Valdai Hills and plenty of typical Narva pottery in the territory of the Neman culture while no objects from the Neman culture were found in Narva.

Narva PSK

Narva PSK (Narva Paemurru Spordikool) is an ice-hockey team located in Narva, Estonia and playing in the Meistriliiga, the top tier of the Estonian hockey league system.

Panther–Wotan line

In the north, the line was to have been constructed roughly from Vitebsk to Pskov, where it then followed the west bank of Lake Peipus, and its river delta to the Baltic Sea at Narva.

Paul-Albert Kausch

In February 1943, he was tasked with raising the 11th SS Panzer Battalion Nordland, which was ordered to the Oranienbaumer, Kessel sector during the withdrawal to the Narva.

Põhja-Kõrvemaa Nature Reserve

There are several hiking trails, the longest being the 36 km long Liiapeksi-Aegviidu trail, which crosses the nature reserve from north to south, and also continues to the north in Lahemaa National Park, which is separated from Põhja-Kõrvemaa by Tallinn-Narva highway.

Provinces of Sweden

At the funeral of Charles X Gustav more flags were added to the procession, namely the coats of arms for Estonia, Livonia, Ingria, Narva, Pomerania, Bremen and Verden, as well as coat of arms for the German territories Kleve, Sponheim, Jülich, Ravensberg and Bayern.

Tallinn–Tapa railway

After Jäneda the railway runs mainly in eastward direction till the end point in Tapa, where it splits to railways to Tartu and Narva.

Vasknarva

1427–1442 a new castle (Vastne-Narva) was built, which became the centre of the vogtei of the Livonian Order.


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