Kallaste 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 ...
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Peipsiääre Parish
Peipsiääre Parish is a rural municipality in Tartu County
Tartu County ( et, Tartu maakond or ''Tartumaa'') is one of 15 counties of Estonia.
It is located in eastern Estonia bordering Põlva County, Valga County, Viljandi County and J ...
,
Tartu County
Tartu County ( et, Tartu maakond or ''Tartumaa'') is one of 15 counties of Estonia.
It is located in eastern Estonia bordering Põlva County, Valga County, Viljandi County and Jõgeva County.
The area of Tartu County is , which covers 6.9% ...
,
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 located on the western shore of
Lake Peipus
Lake Peipus ( et, Peipsi-Pihkva järv; russian: Чудско-Псковское озеро, Псковско-Чудское озеро, Chudsko-Pskovskoye ozero, Pskovsko-Chudskoye ozero); is the largest trans-boundary lake in Europe, lying on ...
. Most of the population are
Russians
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, 15% being
Estonians
Estonians or Estonian people ( et, eestlased) are a Finnic ethnic group native to Estonia who speak the Estonian language.
The Estonian language is spoken as the first language by the vast majority of Estonians; it is closely related to othe ...
.
History
Kallaste was founded in the 18th century as a village of Russian
Old Believers
Old Believers or Old Ritualists, ''starovery'' or ''staroobryadtsy'' are Eastern Orthodox Christians who maintain the liturgical and ritual practices of the Russian Orthodox Church as they were before the reforms of Patriarch Nikon of Moscow b ...
. It became a
small borough
The following is a list of boroughs ( et, alevid) and small boroughs ( et, alevikud) in Estonia.
Boroughs
*Aegviidu
* Järva-Jaani
* Järvakandi
* Kiili
*Kohila
*Kohtla-Nõmme
* Lavassaare
*Märjamaa
*Paikuse
* Pärnu-Jaagupi
* Tootsi
* Vändra ...
(''alevik'') in 1921 and a town 1 May 1938.
Gallery
File:Kallaste-House.JPG,
File:Kallaste.jpg,
File:Kallaste liivakivipaljand.JPG, Bank in Kallaste
File:Kallaste liivakivipaljand 2010.JPG,
File:Church in Kallaste.jpg, Orthodox church in Kallaste
File:Orthodox graveyard kallaste.JPG, Orthodox graveyard
File:Kallaste Bus Port.jpg, Kallaste Bus station
File:Red army memorial.jpg, Soviet World War II memorial
References
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Former municipalities of Estonia
Cities and towns in Estonia
Populated places in Tartu County
18th-century establishments in Estonia
Populated places established in the 18th century
Old Believer communities
Russians in Estonia
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