Tamsalu is a town in
Tapa Parish
Tapa Parish () is a Municipalities of Estonia, rural municipality in Lääne-Viru County in northern Estonia.
The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Tapa, Estonia, Tapa. It is located 70 km east of Estonia's Capital ( ...
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Lääne-Viru County
Lääne-Viru County ( or ''Lääne-Virumaa'') is one of 15 counties of Estonia. It is in northern Estonia, on the south coast of the Gulf of Finland. In Estonian, ''lääne'' means western and ''ida'' means east or eastern. Lääne-Viru borders Id ...
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Estonia
Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ...
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The town has a station on the
Tallinn-Tartu railway.
As of December 31, 2021, the town had a population of 2415.
History
The settlement was first mentioned in 1512, but remained an insignificant village until 1876, when the Tallinn-Tartu railway was built. The settlement became a town in 1996. Before the administrative reform in 2017, the town was the administrative center of the former
Tamsalu Parish
Tamsalu Parish () was a rural municipality of Estonia, in Lääne-Viru County. It had a population of 3,726 (as of 2017) and an area of 214.61 km2.
Settlements
;Town
Tamsalu
;Small borough
Sääse
;Villages
Aavere, Alupere, Araski, Ass ...
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Demographics
Notable people
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Marko Pomerants, former
Estonian Minister of Social Affairs (April 10, 2003 – April 13, 2005), former
Estonian Minister of the Interior (July 3, 2009 – April 5, 2011), former
Estonian Minister of the Environment (April 9, 2015 – June 12, 2017), Member of the
Estonian Parliament.
Gallery
Tamsalu kirik.jpg, Tamsalu church
Tamsalu Kultuurimaja.jpg, Tamsalu House of Culture
Tamsalu, Lääne-Viru County, Estonia - panoramio.jpg,
References
Notes
External links
Cities and towns in Estonia
Former municipalities of Estonia
Kreis Jerwen
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