Valga (German: Walk) is a town in southern Estonia and the capital of Valga County and Valga Parish. Until their separation in 1920, Valga and the town...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Anatoly Lebed (category People from Valga, Estonia)
of the 45th Guards Spetsnaz Regiment. 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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Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across...
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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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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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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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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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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 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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Karel Tilga (category Sportspeople from Valga, Estonia)
Karel Tilga (born 5 February 1998) is an Estonian athlete who competes in the decathlon. Tilga was born in Valga and grew up in Puka until the eight grade...
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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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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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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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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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Helme is a small borough (Estonian: alevik) in Tõrva Parish, Valga County, in southern Estonia. Prior to the 2017 reform of Estonian municipalities, it was...
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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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Kohtla-Järve, Estonia Moss, Norway Nanterre, France Strasbourg, France Rochester, New York, USA Uusikaupunki, Finland Watford, UK Valga, Estonia Zibo, China...
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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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village in Tõrva Parish, Valga County, in southern Estonia. It has a population of 62 (as of 1 January 2012). "Külad" (in Estonian). Põdrala vald. v t e...
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and Valga Military District. The division's commander was Colonel Jaan Maide. The four divisions were active until the Soviet occupation of Estonia. On...
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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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Pļaviņas Rēzekne Rīga Saulkrasti Sigulda Skulte Sloka Torņakalns Tukums Valga (Estonia) Valmiera Vecāķi Zemitāni Zilupe The current rolling stock consists...
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