Estonica
Encyclopedia about Estonia
World tree
The wish of the forest people to maintain good relations with all worlds, expressed in the relief of the half-pagan World Tree in a wall of one of the oldest churches in Estonia has, despite all inborn scepticism, an impact on the way of thinking of Estonians even today.
Did you know...
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...that the University of Tartu founded in 1632 by Swedish rulers of Estonia was one of the first places where Isaac Newton's theories were taught?
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...that the first full translation of the Bible into Estonian was published in 1739?
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...that in 1998 Estonian author Jaan Kross sent an address to the veterans of the 1944 battles in Sinimäed hills?
