Padise is a village in Lääne-Harju Parish, Harju County in northern

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, an ...

. (retrieved 27 July 2021) Padise is the birthplace of Estonian poet and author

Arved Viirlaid Arved Viirlaid (April 11, 1922 – June 21, 2015) was an Estonian-Canadian writer. Viirlaid was born in Padise, Harju County, Estonia. Arved Viirlaid fought in the Estonian regiment in Finland during the Second World War, returning to Estonia ...

(1922–2015).

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File:Padise Klooster.jpg,

Padise Abbey Padise Abbey ( et, Padise klooster) was a former Cistercian monastery in Padise in Harju County, Estonia, settled in 1310 by the dispossessed monks of Dünamünde Abbey in Latvia. It was converted into a fortress after its dissolution in 155 ...

File:Padiseklooster.JPG, File:Padise manor.jpg, Padise Manor File:Kloostri jõgi.JPG, Kloostri river

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Villages in Harju County Castles of the Teutonic Knights {{Harju-geo-stub