Tartu

Tartu is the seicont lairgest ceety o Estonie. In contrast tae Estonie's poleetical an financial caipital Tallinn, Tartu is aften considert the intellectual an cultural hub, especially syne it is hame tae Estonie's auldest an maist renouned varsity. Situatit 186 km sootheast o Tallinn, the ceety is the centre o soothren Estonie. The Emajõgi river, that connects the twa lairgest lochs o Estonie, crosses Tartu. The ceety is served bi Tartu Airport.

Historical names

As Tartu haes been unner the guidal o sindry rulers ootthrou its history, thare are sindry names for the ceety in unalike leids. Maist o thaim derive frae the earliest attestit form, the Estonie Tarbatu. In German, Swadish an Polish the toun haes been, an whiles still is, kent as , a variant o Tarbatu. In Roushie, the ceety haes been kent as Юрьев (Yuryev) efter Yaroslav I the Wise an Дерпт (Derpt), a variant o Dorpat (housomeivver, syne 1917 the Estonie name Tartu is uised). Similarly, the ceety haes been kent as Tērbata in Latvian.

Internaitional relations

Twin touns — Sister ceeties
Tartu is twinned wi:
 Bærum, Norawa
 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


Category:Ceeties an touns in Estonie