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    Valga is a town in southern Estonia and the capital of Valga County and Valga Parish. Until their separation in 1920, Valga and the town of Valka in northern...
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    Valga County (Estonian: Valga maakond or Valgamaa) is a first-level administrative unit and one of 15 counties of Estonia. It comprises the former area...
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  • Look up valga in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Valga may refer to: Valga, Estonia, a town in Estonia, and its twin town Valka in Latvia Valga, Galicia...
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    Tartu–Valga, 82.5km. Completed in 1887. International connection from Valga in Estonia to Valka in Latvia. Passenger trains between Tartu and Valga are...
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    Valka (category Estonia–Latvia border crossings)
    the border with Estonia along both banks of the river Pedele. Valka and the Estonian town Valga are twins, separated by the Estonian/Latvian border but...
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    Tiit Vähi (category People from Valga, Estonia)
    post with the Valga Trucking Company. During the Estonian national independence movement, Vähi was among the organisers of the Estonian Popular Front...
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  • Valga-Valka, also known as BC Valga-Valka/Maks & Moorits for sponsorship reasons, is a basketball club representing the twin towns of Valga, Estonia and...
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  • FC Valga Warrior is an Estonian football club based in Valga. The club joined with FC Valga at the end of 2005 and got their place in Meistriliiga. They...
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  • Eduard Alver (category People from Valga, Estonia)
    (15 March 1886, in Valga – 15 August 1939, in Tallinn) was an Estonian lawyer, policeman, politician, and commander of the Estonian Defence League (Kaitseliit)...
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  • Valga is a former Soviet air base in Estonia located in Jaanikese, 4 km (2.5 mi) northeast of Valga. It was listed on the 1974 Department of Defense Global...
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    and Tornio (Finland), Leticia (Colombia) and Tabatinga (Brazil), or Valga (Estonia) and Valka (Latvia). In some cases twin cities eventually merge into...
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    Kazimierz Świątek (category People from Valga, Estonia)
    in what was then the Russian Empire, the present-day municipality of Valga, Estonia. His family was deported to Siberia during the Russian Revolution. His...
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    Valka Municipality (category Articles containing Estonian-language text)
    Finland Valga, Estonia Valga, Spain Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen, Germany Valka Lutheran Church View towards the former border crossing into Estonia Valka centre...
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    A municipality (Estonian: omavalitsus, plural omavalitsused) is the smallest administrative subdivision of Estonia. Each municipality is a unit of self-government...
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    Valga Keskstaadion (Central stadium of Valga) is a multi-use stadium in the town of Valga, Estonia. It is currently used mostly for athletics and football...
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    in Valga. The phenomenon of "white nights" occurs from early May to late July, during which the sun remains visible for extended periods. Estonia receives...
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    Alfons Rebane (category People from Valga, Estonia)
    reburial of Rebane in Estonia with state honors triggered a number of controversies. Rebane was born in Valga in southern Estonia, then part of the Governorate...
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    Anatoly Lebed (category People from Valga, Estonia)
    operations unit of the Airborne Forces. Lebed was born in the city of Valga, Estonia. He joined the Soviet Army in 1981 starting his military service in...
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    Johannes-Andreas Hanni (category People from Valga, Estonia)
    Estonian serial killer who murdered three people in 1982 with the aid of his wife Pille. Johannes-Andreas Hanni was born in Valga in Soviet Estonia,...
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    and Starokostiantyniv (Ukraine) Stalag 347 in Rēzekne (Latvia) and Valga (Estonia) Stalag 348 in Rzeszów (Poland) and Dnipropetrovsk (Ukraine) Stalag...
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    Church (Estonian: Pühavaimu kirik) is the name given to a religious building belonging to the Catholic Church and located on 8th Street Malev, Valga in Estonia...
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    Alfred Neuland (category Sportspeople from Valga, Estonia)
    weightlifting coach and referee in his hometown of Valga from 1921 to 1940. From 1950 to 1955, Neuland headed the Estonian Experimental Soft Drinks Factory in Tallinn...
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  • The following is a list of the 47 cities and towns in Estonia. Before the Republic of Estonia became an independent nation in 1918, many of these locations...
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    Marko Mihkelson (category People from Valga, Estonia)
    an Estonian journalist and politician representing the liberal Reform Party (Renew Europe) in the Parliament of Estonia. Mihkelson was born in Valga, and...
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  • village in Tõrva Parish, Valga County, in southern Estonia. It has a population of 56 (as of 1 January 2012). "Külad" (in Estonian). Põdrala vald. Archived...
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    In Estonia, the population of ethnic Russians (Russian: Русские Эстонии, romanized: Russkiye Estonii, Estonian: Eesti venelased) is estimated at 296,268...
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  • Andre Hanimägi (category People from Valga, Estonia)
    Riigikogu. Andre Hanimägi was born in Valga, where attended primary and secondary schools. He is a 2008 graduate of Valga Gymnasium. In 2008, he enrolled in...
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    were made to the borders of counties after Estonia became independent, most notably the formation of Valga County (from parts of Võru, Tartu and Viljandi...
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    records of Estonian Jewish historian Nathan Ganns. The Jewish population spread to other Estonian cities where houses of prayer (at Valga, Pärnu and Viljandi)...
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    Poland Český Těšín, Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic Walk, Livonia Valga, Estonia Valka, Latvia Veľké Slemence divided between Slovakia and Ukraine (connected...
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