Estonica
Encyclopedia about Estonia
World tree
The wish of the forest people to maintain good relations with all worlds, expressed in the relief of the half-pagan World Tree in a wall of one of the oldest churches in Estonia has, despite all inborn scepticism, an impact on the way of thinking of Estonians even today.
Did you know...
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...Estonian peasants began buying farmsteads from the estates at free market prices in the 1860s?
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...the Väinameri has an approximate area of 2200 km²?
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...the Riigikogu has to pass it by 1 March of the financial year at the latest?
