An Estonian grammar book to be used by priests was printed in German in 1637.

The Finnish and Estonian languages are both part of the non-Indo-European Uralic languages ; they share a similar grammar as well as several individual words, though sometimes as false friends: e. g. the Finnish word for ' south ', etelä is close to the Estonian word edel, but the latter means south-west.

In 1525 the first book published in the Estonian language was printed.

The birth of native Estonian literature was in 1810 to 1820 when the patriotic and philosophical poems by Kristjan Jaak Peterson were published.

* The first Bible in Estonian is published.

The Estonian and Latvian governments each published a book for the period covering the population transfers from 1939 to early 1940.

* The first primer in the Estonian language is published.

The second, thoroughly revised version ( 19, 087 verses ) was published in sequels as an academic publication by the Learned Estonian Society in 1857 – 1861.

* The title means " Shamans in Eurasia ", the book is published also in German, Estonian and Finnish.

The term was coined by an Estonian activist and artist, Heinz Valk, in an article published a week after the June 10 – 11, 1988, spontaneous mass night-singing demonstrations at the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds.

* The title means “ Shamans in Eurasia ”, the book is written in Hungarian, but it is published also in German, Estonian and Finnish.

It was published in Estonian in 1991 and in English in 2001.

Apart from the quantitative study of electoral and party systems, Taagepera has also published several studies of Estonian and Baltic history, politics, and culture.

* ( The title means “ Shamans in Eurasia ”, the book is written in Hungarian, but it is published also in German, Estonian and Finnish: Site of publisher with short description on the book ( in Hungarian ).

* A couple of articles on Kross in the Estonian Literary Magazine ( ELM ), published in Tallinn, especially during Kross ' 80th birthday year of 2000.

The Estonian, Westminster's student yearbook, was last published in 1987.

* The title means “ Shamans in Eurasia ”, the book is written in Hungarian, but it is published also in German, Estonian and Finnish.

Teachers ' efforts to develop an Estonian terminology for science and technology proved fruitful and the first engineering books were published.

* The title means “ Shamans in Eurasia ”, the book is published also in German, Estonian and Finnish.

One of the earliest written evidences of South Estonian is a translation of the New Testament ( Wastne Testament ) published in 1686.

* The title means “ Shamans in Eurasia ”, the book is published also in German, Estonian and Finnish.

It was initially published in Russian and since 1998 in English with Russian and Estonian language abstracts.

Rroosi Selaviste ( published 1957 ) is without a doubt one of his major accomplishments-a playful homage to his native tongue that not only shows the suppleness of the Estonian language, but also showcases Laaban's virtuosity as a wordsmith.

Russow is the main character in Between Three Plagues, a four-part historical novel by modern Estonian writer Jaan Kross, the first part published in 1970.

While a lot of Estonian Security Police's activities are classified, its overview of the status of national security is published yearly as the Kaitsepolitsei aastaraamat.

According to an Amnesty International report from 2009: " In June, the Estonian Security Police Board published its annual report which made serious allegations against the Legal Information Centre for Human Rights ( LICHR ), an NGO promoting and defending the rights of those belonging to linguistic minorities.

It was until 1877 a separate town ( Dom zu Reval ), the residence of the aristocracy ; it is today the seat of the Estonian parliament, government and some embassies and residencies.

From the mouth of the Vistula river and the Prussian region, the Teutonic Knights by force continued the eastward migration up to Estonian Reval ( Tallinn ), Germans also settled in the mountainous border regions of Bohemia and Moravia and formed a distinct social class of citizens in towns like Prague, Havlíčkův Brod ( Deutsch-Brod ), Olomouc ( Olmütz ) and Brno ( Brünn ).

More likely Reval is derived from the name of the adjacent ancient Estonian county of Revalia ( Rävala ), and in fact the first recorded occurrences of that name predate the Danish king's first visit to Estonia in 1219 by several years.

He was the Lutheran pastor of the Estonian congregation at the Holy Spirit Church in Reval from 1566 until his death.

They also told them that the Estonian army had laid siege on Reval, but they were willing to hand the Danish city over to the king of Sweden if the Swedes sent help.

A large army led the Master of the Order proceeded immediately towards Reval, seeking out and engaging smaller Estonian units on the way.

After discovering the Danish stronghold in the hands of the Order and the Estonian army utterly defeated, the Swedes satisfied themselves with looting around Reval before sailing back to Finland.

* Estonian Regiment " Reval "

* 1220 – Sweden is defeated by Estonian tribes in the Battle of Lihula.

A parliamentary republic was formed by the Estonian Constituent Assembly and the first Constitution of Estonia was adopted on June 15, 1920.

** Kalevipoeg by Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald ( 1853 Estonian mythology )

Estonian ( eesti keel ; ) is the official language of Estonia, spoken natively by about 1. 1 million people in Estonia and tens of thousands in various migrant communities.

The first extant Estonian book is a bilingual German-Estonian translation of the Lutheran catechism by S. Wanradt and J. Koell dating to 1535, during the Protestant Reformation period.

The two languages were united based on northern Estonian by Anton Thor Helle.

When Estonia was invaded and occupied by the Soviet Union in World War II, the status of the Estonian language changed to the first of two official languages ( Russian being the other one ).

Estonian has been influenced by Swedish, German ( initially Middle Low German, later also standard German ), and Russian, though it is not related to them genetically.

Although the Estonian orthography is generally guided by phonemic principles, with each grapheme corresponding to one phoneme, there are some historical and morphological deviations from this: for example the initial letter ' h ' in words, preservation of the morpheme in declension of the word ( writing b, g, d in places where p, k, t is pronounced )

* Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church < nowiki >*</ nowiki > ( autonomy recognized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate but not by the Russian Orthodox Church )

The name " Russia ", together with the Finnish Ruotsi ( which means " Sweden ") and Estonian Rootsi ( which means " Sweden "), are found by some scholars to be related to Roslagen.

In Turkish, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Sallan, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish and Swedish the order is reversed ; the amount is followed by a fixed space and the ISO 4217 code:

Kazaa and FastTrack were originally created and developed by Estonian programmers from BlueMoon Interactive and sold to Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis ( who were later to create Skype and later still Joost and Rdio ).

In 1937, a prominent Estonian political leader Artur Sirk, while a fugitive in Luxembourg was found dead, having apparently committed suicide by jumping out a second-story window.

Estonian historians including Pusta and Tomingas have argued that the death was an act of defenestration by agents of the first President of Estonia, Konstantin Päts.

In 2011 councillor Andrew Long was invited to visit the Estonian Parliament by Aare Heinvee MP of the Reformierakond ( Reform Party ).

The Omakaitse ( Home Guard ) was an organisation formed by the local population of Estonia on the basis of the Estonian Defence League and the forest brothers resistance movement active in the Eastern Front, 3 July 1941 – 17 September 1944.

While the Swedes made only one failed foray into western Estonia in 1220, the Danish Fleet headed by King Valdemar II of Denmark had landed at the Estonian town of Lindanisse ( present-day Tallinn ) in 1219.

* 20-Lauri Aus, Estonian pro cyclist, he was struck on bicycle by a drunk driver.

Examples include the Estonian Kalevipoeg, Finnish Kalevala, Polish Pan Tadeusz, Latvian Lāčplēsis, Armenian Sasuntzi Davit by Hovhannes Tumanyan, and Georgian The Knight in the Panther's Skin.

The Estonian Legion, for example, had 1, 280 volunteers under training by the end of 1942.