Antsla is a

town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an o ...

Võru County Võru County ( et, Võru maakond or ''Võrumaa''; vro, Võro maakund) is a county in southern Estonia. It is bordered by Valga County and Põlva County and is the only Estonian county bordering two countries - Latvia ( Alūksne Municipality an ...

, southern

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 ...

, it is the administrative centre of

Antsla Parish Antsla Parish ( et, Antsla vald) is a rural municipality of Estonia, in Võru County. Settlements ;Town Antsla ;Small boroughs Kobela - Vana-Antsla ;Villages Anne - Antsu - Haabsaare - Jõepera - Kaika - Kassi - Kikkaoja - Kirikukül ...

. Antsla

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was renamed town of third rank by

Konstantin Päts Konstantin Päts (; – 18 January 1956) was an Estonian statesman and the country's president in 1938–1940. Päts was one of the most influential politicians of the independent democratic Republic of Estonia, and during the two decades prior ...

from 1 May 1938. The settlement is known since 1405. The town has a furniture manufacturing. Antsla is situated on the Valga– Pechory railway, but since 2001 the train traffic on the line is inactive.

Notable people

* Aimar Altosaar (born 1959), sociologist and politician * Teo Krüüner (born 1943), military major general *

Maarja Nummert Maarja Nummert (born 24 April 1944, near Antsla) is an Estonian architect who has designed a number of school buildings. She has received several awards for her work, sometimes using wood for village schools such as the one in Hageri where some o ...

(born 1944), architect * Vilja Toomast (born 1962), politician *

Vahur Kersna Vahur Kersna (also Vahur-Üllar Kersna; born on 4 February 1962) is an Estonian journalist, radio and television personality and caricaturist. In 1985, he graduated from Tartu State University in journalism. 1986–2007, he was the host for man ...

(born 1962), journalist * Urmas Välbe (born 1966), cross-country skier * Andrus Värnik (born 1977), javelin thrower

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References

Cities and towns in Estonia Populated places in Võru County Former municipalities of Estonia {{Võru-geo-stub