Ruhnu Parish
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Ruhnu Parish is a municipality in Saare County, Estonia. It encompasses the island of Ruhnu in the Gulf of Riga, together with a number of uninhabited islets. Its population is the smallest of any of
The new and old churches in Ruhnu village
Kuunsi beacon.
Ruhnu Airfield
Ruhnu school
Estonian Swedes
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The Estonian Swedes are a Swedish-speaking minority traditionally residing in the coastal areas and islands of what is now western and northern Estonia. During World War II, almost all of the remainin
Ruhnu Parish
…arable crops such as oats and barley. 60% of the land in Ruhnu Parish is currently in the ownership of Swedish citizens, the descendants of the pre-war ethnic Swedish population. Ruhnu was part of Saaremaa district until 1950 when the Soviet authorities transferred it to Pärnu district. It was again assigned to…
Swedish towns and villages in Western Estonia
Swedish church in Hullo, Vormsi
Maria Murman (1911–2004), an Estonian Swede who remained in Estonia after the Second World War, in Vormsi (Ormsö), 1994
Farmers of Noarootsi (Swedish: Nuckö) peninsula in 19th-century clothing