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Tartu (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
Lat: 58 21 58 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 58.3660 decimal degrees |
Long: 026 44 10 E degrees minutes |
Long: 26.7450 decimal degrees |
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Note: Located on Emajogi river; inhabited since 5th century CE. Tartu was fortified by the Russians in 1030, and was a prosperous Hanseatic city from the 13th-16th centuries. It was ruled successively by Poles, Swedes, and the Russians during the 16th-18th centuries. Noted as an old university center. |
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Tartu (preferred,C,V)
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Dorpat (C,O)
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Yuryev (H,V)
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............ | Russian name used in 11th cen., & again 1893-1918 |
Yur'yev (H,V)
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Jurjev (H,O)
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Derpt (H,V)
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............ | used until 1893 |
Tarbatu (H,V)
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............ | name documented in 5th cen. |
Tērbata (H,V)
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Yurev (C,V)
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Tartto (C,V)
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Tartu (inhabited place) (P) |
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inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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settled at least by 5th cen. |
city (C) |
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district capital (C) |
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university center (C) |
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university founded in 1632 |
industrial center (C) |
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