Kuressaare is a city on the island Saaremaa in Estonia. It is the administrative centre of Saaremaa Municipality and the seat of Saare County. Kuressaare is the westernmost town in Estonia. The record
Aerial view of Kuressaare
Over 90 civilians were killed by the Soviet naval forces and NKVD in 1941 in Kuressaare in one of the largest mass executions during the Soviet occupation of Estonia.
Historical buildings in city center
Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea
Kuressaare
…Kuressaare (Estonian pronunciation: ) is a city on the island Saaremaa in Estonia. It is the administrative centre of Saaremaa Municipality and the seat of Saare County. Kuressaare is the westernmost town in Estonia. The recorded…
Bronze Age stone-cist graves at Jõelähtme
Lübeck Law Codex for Tallinn
Academia Gustaviana, now the University of Tartu, was founded in 1632 by King Gustavus Adolphus
Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald (1803–1882), author of the Estonian national epic Kalevipoeg (by Johann Köler, 1864)