Karsten Brüggemann, Ralph Tuchtenhagen: Tallinn
Friday, December 10, 2010
Men Urinating In Open
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The Estonian capital of Tallinn, Reval is the old, in its origins back to an Estonian castle at the beginning of the 13th Century was conquered by Danes. Since its accession to the Hanseatic city led by rules in spite of changing its own life, which was characterized mainly by trade and handicrafts. Regardless of their connection to Sweden and the Russian Empire dominated the German citizens to urban concerns to the 20th Century. In the town next to the Estonians and the Germans also lived Swedes, Finns, Russians and Jews. After the overthrow of the Tsar was Tallinn for two decades, capital of the Republic of Estonia.
result of the Hitler-Stalin Pact and the Soviet annexation of the country Tallinn was then for half a century behind the Iron Curtain. After the "Singing Revolution" and the collapse the Soviet Union was again the capital of Estonia. Today, the typically mediaeval UNESCO World Heritage Site, and in 2011, Tallinn European Capital of Culture.
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