Lihula is a town in Lääneranna Parish, Pärnu County, Estonia. Lihula Castle (German: Leal, Leale, Lihhola) was first mentioned in 1211, but it appears...
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Monument of Lihula is the colloquial name of a monument commemorating the Estonians who fought for Estonia against the Soviet Union in World War II, located...
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Lihula Parish (Estonian: Lihula vald) was a rural municipality in Lääne County, Estonia. It had a population of 2,652 (as of 1 January 2010) and an area...
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Lihula JK is an Estonian football club based in Lihula. Founded in 2009, they currently play in the III Liiga, the fifth tier of Estonian football. As...
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The Battle of Lihula or Battle of Leal was fought between invading Swedes and Estonians for the control of a castle in Lihula, Estonia in 1220. The exact...
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initially led by King John I, had invaded Läänemaa. The Swedish army took the Lihula stronghold and set up a small garrison. Swedish Jarl Karl Döve and Bishop...
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1999 Otepää town and Pühajärve Parish formed Otepää Parish Lihula town was merged into Lihula Parish Võsu borough was merged into Vihula Parish Karksi-Nuia...
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List of cemeteries in Estonia (section Lihula)
Cemetery Sillaotsa Cemetery Metsakalmistu Old Cemetery Lihula New Cemetery Lihula-Chapel Cemetery Lihula-Russian Cemetery Tuudi-Sause Cemetery Kirbla Cemetery...
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enterprise was initially successful and King Johan established a base in Leal (Lihula). From this stronghold the Swedish soldiers made forays to the countryside...
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Ekolsund in Sweden, Sjundby in Finland, Polchow in Swedish Pomerania and Lihula in Swedish Livonia. He was born in Lohja to Princess Sigrid of Sweden and...
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Leal (redirect from Bishop of Lihula)
missionary phase. It was established in 1211, with episcopal see in Leal (today Lihula). The two known bishops were Fulco, Theoderich and Hermann of Dorpat who...
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Estonia. From 10 April 1220 – 21 July 1224, Hermann was the Bishop of Leal (Lihula), after which he took over the Bishopric of Dorpat. Hermann founded the...
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Estonian soldiers. The museum is the current location of the Monument of Lihula. Official website 59°23′21″N 24°56′28″E / 59.38917°N 24.94111°E / 59...
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originally established as the Bishopric of Leal in 1211, based in Leal, modern Lihula. When the Sword Brothers in 1224 captured Yuryev (modern Tartu), they renamed...
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"Lihula". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 2 June 2020. "Lihula Maastikukaitseala". Protected Planet. Retrieved 17 June 2021. "Lihula | Ramsar...
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take the border town of Otrar in the Khwarazmian Empire. 1220 Battle of Lihula Invading Swedish forces are defeated by Estonians, during the Livonian Crusade...
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of Wiek, but his troops were defeated by the Oeselians in the Battle of Lihula in 1220. Revelia, Harrien, and Vironia, the whole of northern Estonia, fell...
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Wilhelm Konstantin Frommhold Petersen (12 June 1854 in Lihula – 3 February 1933 in Tallinn) was an Estonian entomologist, lepidopterist of Baltic-German...
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was celebrated and became the basis for his epithet Nevsky." Battle of Lihula Bishop Thomas Second Swedish Crusade Nicknamed Nevsky ('of the Neva') for...
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Toomas Kivimägi (born 16 February 1963 in Lihula, Lääne County) is an Estonian politician and lawyer. He has been a member of the XIII and XIV Riigikogu...
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seat of the bishops, it was also successively known as bishopric of Leal (Lihula) from 1234, Perona (Vana-Pärnu) from 1251, Hapsal (Haapsalu) Castle from...
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Kehra, Keila, Kilingi-Nõmme, Kiviõli, Kohtla-Järve, Kunda, Kuressaare, Lihula, Loksa, Maardu, Mõisaküla, Mustvee, Narva-Jõesuu, Otepää, Paide, Paldiski...
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party in 2004 because of his opposition to the relocation of Monument of Lihula and the suppression of protests. EKRE describes itself as "a principled...
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2007 cyberattacks on Estonia Kalamaja cemetery Kopli cemetery Monument of Lihula Sinisalu, Arnold. "Propaganda, Information War and the Estonian-Russian...
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behind Lihula". Baltictimes.com. Retrieved 24 September 2011. Postimees 14 September 2004: Semiootikaprofessor Toropi hinnangul ei ole Lihula sammas natslik...
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the daughter of Louise Rosalie (née Fabricius), born near Leal (modern Lihula, Estonia) in 1842, and of the railway official Friedrich August Siré, born...
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seating places of which 376 are under the roof. The address of the stadium is Lihula mnt 10, 90507 Haapsalu. Although a small stadium, the Haapsalu linnastaadion...
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led by king John I of Sweden and the bishop Karl of Linköping conquered Lihula in Rotalia in Western Estonia. Oeselians attacked the Swedish stronghold...
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high-voltage designer pylon, established as the corner pylon of the Harku–Lihula–Sindi high-voltage line in summer 2020. The pylon is located in Risti, Lääne...
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led by king John I of Sweden and the bishop Karl of Linköping conquered Lihula in Rotalia in Western Estonia. Oeselians attacked the Swedish stronghold...
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