Saaremaa
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Saaremaa is the largest and most populous island in Estonia. Measuring 2,673 km2, its population is 31,435. The main island of the West Estonian archipelago, it is located in the Baltic Sea, south of
Kuressaare Castle in Kuressaare
The 1241 Treaty between Livonian Order, Bishopric of Ösel–Wiek and Oeselians at National Archives of Sweden
Local shipbuilders at work (Saaremaa, 1913)
Panga Cliff
Thule
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Thule is the most northerly location mentioned in ancient Greek and Roman literature and cartography. First written of by the Greek explorer Pytheas of Massalia in about 320 BC, it was often described
Saaremaa
…Oysl), and Latin (Osilia). In Latvian, the island is called Sāmsala, which possibly means 'the island of Saami'. Saaremaa may have been the historic Ultima Thule. According to archaeological finds, the territory of Saaremaa has been inhabited from at least 5000 BCE. Nordic Iron Age ship burials, dated to 700–750…
Thule as Tile on the Carta marina of 1539 by Olaus Magnus, where it is shown located to the northwest of the Orkney islands, with a "monster, seen in 1537", a whale ("balena"), and an orca nearby
A local stamp of Greenland 1936, inscribed Thule