Mõnnaste is a village in
Viljandi Parish
Viljandi Parish ( et, Viljandi vald) is a rural municipality of Viljandi County, Estonia. It is located around the town of Viljandi, but does not include it.
Viljandi Parish was established by merging four municipalities: Paistu, Pärsti, Sa ...
,
Viljandi County
Viljandi County ( et, Viljandi maakond or ''Viljandimaa''; german: Kreis Fellin) is one of 15 counties of Estonia. It is located in southern Estonia bordering Pärnu, Järva, Jõgeva, Tartu and Valga counties.
History
Viljandimaa, under the ...
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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 t ...
. Until the 2017 administrative reform of Estonian municipalities the village was located in
Tarvastu Parish
Tarvastu Parish ( et, Tarvastu vald) was a rural municipality of Estonia, in Viljandi County. It had a population of 4,216 (as of 1 January 2009) and an area of 409.00 km².
Settlements
;Small borough
Mustla
;Villages
Ämmuste – Anikats ...
. Mõnnaste is 15 km (9 miles) southeast of the town of
Viljandi
Viljandi (, german: Fellin, sv, Fellin) is a town and municipality in southern Estonia with a population of 17,407 in 2019. It is the capital of Viljandi County and is geographically located between two major Estonian cities, Pärnu and Tartu ...
near the western shore of the lake
Võrtsjärv
Lake Võrtsjärv (; german: Wirzsee) is a lake in southern Estonia with an area of 270 km² (104 mi²).
It is the second largest lake in Estonia (behind Lake Peipus), and the largest lake situated entirely within Estonia. The shall ...
. The population of Mõnnaste was 69 people as of 2011.
Mõnnaste is the birthplace of Estonian politician and former
Prime Minister of Estonia,
Ado Birk (1883-1942) and Estonian poet
Eha Lättemäe (1922-2012).
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Retrieved 2 January 2016.
References
Villages in Viljandi County
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