Tartu

Tartu is the seicond lairgest ceety o Estonie. In contrast tae Estonie's poleetical an financial caipital Tallinn, Tartu is aften considered the intellectual an cultural hub, especially since it is hame tae Estonie's auldest an maist renouned university. Situatit 186 km sootheast o Tallinn, the ceety is the centre o soothren Estonie. The Emajõgi river, which connects the twa lairgest lakes o Estonie, crosses Tartu. The ceety is served bi Tartu Airport.

Historical names

As Tartu haes been unner control o various rulers throughoot its history, there are various names for the ceety in different leids. Maist o them derive frae the earliest attestit form, the Estonian Tarbatu. In German, Swadish an Polish the toun haes been an sometimes still is kent as  Dorpat^?, a variant o Tarbatu. In Russian, the ceety haes been kent as Юрьев (Yuryev) efter Yaroslav I the Wise an Дерпт (Derpt), a variant o Dorpat (housomeivver, syne 1917 the Estonian name Tartu is uised). Similarly, the ceety haes been kent as Tērbata in Latvian.

Internaitional relations

See an aw: Leet o twin touns an sister ceeties in Estonie

Twin touns — Sister ceeties

Tartu is twinned wi:

Bærum, Norrowey Deventer, Netherlands Ferrara, Italy Frederiksberg, Denmark

Hafnarfjörður, Iceland Hämeenlinna, Finland Kaunas, Lithuanie Lüneburg, Germany

Pskov, Roushie Riga, Latvie Salisbury, Unitit States Tampere, Finland

Turku, Finland Uppsala, Swaden Veszprem, Hungary Zutphen, Netherlands

References

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