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Valve (given Name)
Valve is an Estonian feminine given name. As of 1 January 2022, 795 women in Estonia have the first name Valve, making it the 217th most popular female name in the country. The name is most commonly found in Jõgeva County, where 18.27 per 10,000 inhabitants of the county. bear the name. Individuals bearing the name Valve include: * Valve Kirsipuu (1933–2017), Estonian economist and politician *Valve Pormeister Valve Pormeister ''née'' Ulm (13 April 1922 – 27 October 2002) was an Estonian landscape architect who became an architect. She was one of the first women to influence the development of Estonian architecture, becoming one of the country's most ... (1922–2002), Estonian landscape architect and architect * Valve Raudnask (born 1936), Estonian journalist and politician References {{Given name Feminine given names Estonian feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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, and to the east by Lake Peipus and Russia. The territory of Estonia consists of the mainland, the larger islands of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa, and over 2,200 other islands and islets on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, covering a total area of . The capital city Tallinn and Tartu are the two largest urban areas of the country. The Estonian language is the autochthonous and the official language of Estonia; it is the first language of the majority of its population, as well as the world's second most spoken Finnic language. The land of what is now modern Estonia has been inhabited by '' Homo sapiens'' since at least 9,000 BC. The medieval indigenous population of Estonia was one of the last "pagan" civilisations in Europe to adop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estonian Language
Estonian ( ) is a Finnic language, written in the Latin script. It is the official language of Estonia and one of the official languages of the European Union, spoken natively by about 1.1 million people; 922,000 people in Estonia and 160,000 outside Estonia. Classification Estonian belongs to the Finnic branch of the Uralic language family. The Finnic languages also include Finnish and a few minority languages spoken around the Baltic Sea and in northwestern Russia. Estonian is subclassified as a Southern Finnic language and it is the second-most-spoken language among all the Finnic languages. Alongside Finnish, Hungarian and Maltese, Estonian is one of the four official languages of the European Union that are not of an Indo-European origin. From the typological point of view, Estonian is a predominantly agglutinative language. The loss of word-final sounds is extensive, and this has made its inflectional morphology markedly more fusional, especially with respec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Given Name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship and descent. Even if lineage details are unknown, clans may claim descent from founding member or apical ancestor. Clans, in indigenous societies, tend to be endogamous, mea ...) who have a common surname. The term ''given name'' refers to a name usually bestowed at or close to the time of birth, usually by the parents of the newborn. A ''Christian name'' is the first name which is given at baptism, in Christian custom. In informal situations, given names are often used in a familiar and friendly manner. In more formal situations, a person's surname is more commonly used. The idioms 'on a first-name basis' and 'being on first-name terms' refer to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jõgeva County
Jõgeva County ( et, Jõgeva maakond or ''Jõgevamaa'') is one of 15 counties of Estonia. It is situated in eastern part of the country and borders Ida-Viru County to the north-east, Lake Peipus to the east, Tartu County to the south, Viljandi County to the south-west, Järva County to the north-west and Lääne-Viru County to the north. History Jõgeva County or Jõgevamaa was created January 1, 1990 from a parts of Viljandimaa and Tartumaa counties. County government The County government (Estonian: ''Maavalitsus'') was led by a governor (Estonian: ''maavanem''), who was appointed by the Government of Estonia for a term of five years. Since 2009 until 2018, the Jõgeva County governor position was held by Viktor Svjatõšev. From 01.01.2018 County governments were shut down in Estonia. Municipalities The county is subdivided into municipalities. There are three rural municipalities (Estonian: ''vallad'' – parishes) in Jõgeva County. See also * Vooremaa * Vooremaa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valve Kirsipuu
Valve Kirsipuu (née Valve Elu; 5 March 1933 Tallinn – 20 September 2017 Corfu) was an Estonian economist and politician. She was a member of the VII, VIII and IX Riigikogu. On 10 September 2017, Valve Kirsipuu had a heart attack while swimming on the island of Corfu Corfu (, ) or Kerkyra ( el, Κέρκυρα, Kérkyra, , ; ; la, Corcyra.) is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea, of the Ionian Islands, and, including its small satellite islands, forms the margin of the northwestern frontier of Greece. The isl ... in Greece. She was hospitalized, but died ten days later in hospital on Corfu, aged 84. References 1933 births 2017 deaths 20th-century Estonian economists Women economists Social Democratic Party (Estonia) politicians Women members of the Riigikogu Members of the Riigikogu, 1995–1999 Members of the Riigikogu, 1999–2003 Tallinn University of Technology alumni Academic staff of the Tallinn University of Technology Politicians from Tallinn Memb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valve Pormeister
Valve Pormeister ''née'' Ulm (13 April 1922 – 27 October 2002) was an Estonian landscape architect who became an architect. She was one of the first women to influence the development of Estonian architecture, becoming one of the country's most inventive modernisers of rural architecture in the 1960s and 1970s. ''Estonian Art'' 1/05. Retrieved 14 February 2012. She is often known as the "Grand Old Lady" of Estonian architecture. ''Ajaloo Asakond''. Retrieved 14 February 2012. Biography Pormeister was born in , studied briefly agronomy at the |
Valve Raudnask
Valve Raudnask (née Valve Purask; born 10 December 1936 in Aleksandri Parish, Võru County) is an Estonian journalist and politician. From 1963 until 1982, she worked as a journalist for the daily newspaper '' Noorte Hääl''. From 1982 until 1983, she was a journalist for '' Õhtuleht''. Later, from 1983 until 1994, she was the head of the newspaper ''Rahva Hääl'', and from 1994 until 1995, the head of ''Eesti Sõnumid''. She was a member of VIII Riigikogu VIII Riigikogu was the eighth legislature of Estonian Parliament (Riigikogu). The legislature was elected after 1995 election. Election results Officers Speaker of the Riigikogu: Toomas Savi Toomas Savi (born 30 December 1942 in Tartu, Est ..., representing the Estonian Centre Party. Noorte Hääl References Living people 1936 births Estonian women journalists Members of the Riigikogu, 1995–1999 Estonian Centre Party politicians Women members of the Riigikogu Recipients of the Order of the White Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feminine Given Names
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan) who have a common surname. The term ''given name'' refers to a name usually bestowed at or close to the time of birth, usually by the parents of the newborn. A ''Christian name'' is the first name which is given at baptism, in Christian custom. In informal situations, given names are often used in a familiar and friendly manner. In more formal situations, a person's surname is more commonly used. The idioms 'on a first-name basis' and 'being on first-name terms' refer to the familiarity inherent in addressing someone by their given name. By contrast, a surname (also known as a family name, last name, or ''gentile'' name) is normally inherited and shared with other members of one's immediate family. Regnal names and religiou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
