Talk:Tartu

message: Hi! i have added the schools in Tartu and it doesn't seems to appear on the page. did someone erase it?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.159.191.99 (talk) 13:47, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Schools In Tartu

message: I propose adding an entry to the Tartu residence apartment in Toronto which is located at Madison and Bloor, serving primarily as a residence for students at U of T. It is run by Estonians.
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.52.182.42 (talk) 23:38, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Tartu Residence in Toronto

message: Maybe there could be a line or two about the destruction of Tartu by Russian army, that was later described in the 'Lament of Käsu Hans'? After all, it was an important point in the town history. (I'm sorry, but I can't find the date right now.)
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"In the summer, with the advent of many discount flights and seniors cruises, Tartu also plays host to a host of fat tourists from across the Atlantic."
This hardly seems like NPOV.  Perhaps drop the "fat"?  Kd5mdk 04:45, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: I changed the introduction because it did not seem streamlined enough. The historical background and time range of the Russian names should be mentioned in the history section, while the introduction should be a brief overview of the city as it is today. The mentioning of its foundation as Yuryev is relevant at the beginning of the History section, but does not fit in well with the other content in the intro, which is why I removed it. I added 19th century cultural information from this site:. I also renamed some of the headers and rearranged some of the information to better fit the flow of the text. I removed the reference to the Embach because that name is listed in the stub Emajõgi article I created (please feel free to expand upon that). Anyone have any thoughts? Olessi 02:53, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Introduction

message: The last part of the article:
"Presently, Tartu is also known for several modern, rather sterile-looking buildings of the "steel, concrete and glass" type, but has managed to retain a mix of old buildings and new buildings in the historical centre of town.
Being the intellectual and cultural centre of Estonia, the Estonian Prime Minister often takes state guests to Tartu. Famous guests have included Charles, Prince of Wales, the presidents of Finland, Latvia, Hungary, the Republic of Ireland, and Lithuania, as well as religious leaders like the Dalai Lama and the head of the Orthodox Church of Constantinople, Patriarch Bartholomew I.
Tartu's large student population means that it has a comparatively thriving nightlife, with some bars, restaurants, and nightclubs. Some of the more popular destinations for tourists include the Wilde Irish Pub and the Gunpowder Cellar."
looks like it has been added in haste. Stylistic and grammatical mistakes here, all of them at the beginning of the paragraph. If I were a teacher of English (and I am) I would say: sure sign that it is copied from some book, and the beginning of each one has been rephrased to make it fit in and look original. [User:Pan_Gerwazy] --pgp 15:35, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Style and grammar 

message: Why Tartu linn? The Esti Wiki has Tartu in this place.
Xx236 08:51, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tartu linn ? 

message: What does it mean?
Xx236 11:20, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  recent historical name 

message: Tartu has always in written Finnish language been Tartto, nothing else. Never been used Dorpat,
or Jurjev. Just to know Jurjev (Jurijev) was the name of the fortress built by the Kievan Russ,
not Moskovites nearby Tarbatu settlement. The town was originally Tarbatu, then Germanized to Dorpat and then Estonian Tartu and in Finnish Tartto. The Panslavist reprerentavives in Russian Duma managed to pressure the old Kievan fortress name back to use despite protest of local German and Estonian population.
It seems that the young lady from Jaroslavl is trying to introdude also here the rewritten
history as ordered by Stalin and still teached in schools in Russia.
In Finnish history is told that Prince Jaroslav from Kijev attacked in 1030 to Tarbatu and founded a wooden fortress there, but not at the site of Tarbatu settlement. In 1054, this time the Novgorodians attacked to Tarbatu and kept the area to year 1060 when another Estonian tribe, called Sosols drived the Novgorodians out of the area, burned Jurjev fortress and advanced to Pihkva / Pskov, where they smashed a 1000 men strong Novgorodian group of soldiers.
In years 1111, 1113, 1116, 1123 and 1132 the Novgorodians repeated their attacks against Tarbatu, but they were defeated each time. It was only in 1134 when they managed to capture Tarbatu and kept it occupied up to 1176. That year " the whole land of Tshuds " rise against the Novgorodian occupiers and again they drived the Novgorodians out of the Tarbatu and the country which was to become Estonia.
Three years later in 1179 the Novgorodians again collected an army of 20.000 men and attacked
to Estonia destroyed Otsonpää (Bear´s head) Otepää and surrounded Tarbatu. They withdrew after eight days back to Novgorod. In their next attack in 1191 the Novgorodians managed to capture Tarbatu and next year they burned Otsonpää Otepää again. In 1262 they managed " with Good´s help " to capture Dorpat and burned most of its inhabitants alive in their houses. 
At Tartto peace was signed between Finland and Soviet Russia in 1920, Tarton rauha which ended the state of war between Republic of Finland and Soviet Russia.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.112.84.229 (talk) 15:26, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Finnish name is forgotten

message: The current map shows the location of Tartu in Europe, but on the scale being used this is only about as helpful as showing the location of the whole of Estonia in Europe - it's not clear where in Estonia the city is! Would it be possible for a map to show the location of Tartu within Estonia instead? An inset could be provided to indicate the location of Estonia in Europe, if that is felt necessary. TheGrappler (talk) 02:35, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map has too much context  

message: The link used for citation in this passage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartu#Twin_towns_%E2%80%93_Sister_cities is broken currently. A working link is at http://www.tartu.ee/et/sopruslinnad. BUT there is also a difference in the cities mentioned (17 in Wikipedia and 15 on the Tartu city website). So that should also probably be corrected.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Karland90 (talk • contribs) 12:18, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sister/Twin cities (sõpruslinnad)