What would people ask… No, it isn’t. With an area of 45 000 sq km it is larger than Denmark, Holland or Switzerland and.
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Slide 1
What would people ask…
Slide 2
No, it isn’t. With an
area of 45 000 sq km
it is larger than
Denmark, Holland or
Switzerland and twice
a size of Slovenia.
Located in Northern
Europe beside the
Baltic Sea it streches
350km E-W and 240
km N-S
Slide 3
Sorry, but the nearest polar bears live 2000 km
further North. Estonia shares its latitude with
southern Sweden and northern tip of the
Scottish mainland
We do have sheep
though and
the best known
is Ruhnu Sheep
(maalammas)
Slide 4
That’s true! More than thousand small islands
scattered in Baltic Sea, most of them uninhabited,
providing an escape from civilization with their
Osmussaar
unique landscape and untouched nature
reserve.
Slide 5
There are of
course bigger
islands with
people and
towns and
cars and
buses… With its Sõrve Peninsula – Sõrve säär
The biggest of them is…
Slide 6
Well, that’s a myth,
of course, but
due to Estonian
location, we get
only 6 hours of
daylight in winter
as opposite to
‘white nights’ in
summer…
and during Midsummer Eve – who knows what
you can find when wandering around on Estonian
meadows…
Slide 7
Almost true. Although it’s a hill – 318m – we
call it Suur Munamägi - Big Egg Mountain and it is the highest peak in all Baltic region.
From observation tower one can have a view
of over 50km to every direction
Slide 8
No. That’s
Finland’s area
of expertise.
But – we do
have a fifth
largest lake in
Europe and it ESTONIA
acts like a
border between
Estonia and
Russian
Federation.
Fish included…
RUSSIA
Slide 9
First humans arrived on these lands some 11,000
years ago and they allegedly named Peipsi but we
are not sure who they really were…
Greek explorer Pythias mentions OSTIATOI in 320BC
Roman Tacitus writes about AESTI in the 1st century
Vikings named us AUSTERVEGR around 800 AD
During Swedish time we became ESTLAND
Our kindred nation knows us as VIRO
Southern neighbours name us IGAUNIJA
We ourselves call us EESTI
And mostly we are known as ESTONIA
Maybe because of an old myth…
Slide 10
…according to which the ancient
Estonians turned every visitor into
the rocks also known as STONES…
For that reason, people always
avoided going to Estonia, as its
people never changed their old
habits…
this is why there are so many
STONES all over ESTONIA…
Must be a very old visitor…
Slide 11
Indeed, we have had many kings ruling over us, like
Danish
Sigismund II
Valdemar
Augustus of
the Victorius
Poland
Gustav II
Adolf of
Sweden
Who founded University
of Tartu in 1632
… and
Aleksander II
of Russia
Slide 12
… but for the last 95 years we have tried to take
care of our country and people ourselves
Having first
Estonian
Republic in
1918-1940
Being Estonian
Soviet Socialist
Republic in
1940-1991
And getting the
second chance
as the Republic
of Estonia in
1991
Slide 13
‘Cause we sing all the time…
We had our first Song Festival already in 1869
And we
have not
been able
to stop
ever
since…
We sang through the first republic…
And through soviet times…
So… don’t ever
underestimate a
singing Estonian!
And in 1988 we
helped to regain
our independence
through Singing
Revolution…
Slide 14
Not really. 2/3 of Estonian population actually
lives in towns… as we don’t have cities…
Biggest of them being
our capital Tallinn
Followed by
university town
Tartu
And then some other more or
less bigger… villages
Slide 15
Oh yes. We have an especially great passion
towards vowels and words like TÖÖÖÖ
KUUUURIJAD ÕUEAIAÄÄRNE
explorers of
the Moon
work night
the edge of the place in
your garden which… oh
well… something…
which may sound
and seem like
jibberish but
carry an actual
meaning
JÄÄÄÄR
the edge of ice
not to mention 14 cases, different
for singular and plural,
three degrees of phonemic length,
36 diphthongs and… well… decide
for yourself
Slide 16
Tallinna vanalinnapäevade ajal toimusid
öised laulupeod, kus noorte inimeste
massid liikusid sinimustvalgeid lippe
kandes Lauluväljaku poole. Alul
stiihiline rahva omaalgatusel toimunud
üritus kasvas lõpuks välja Laulvaks
Revolutsiooniks, mille lõpptulemusena
taastati Eestis iseseisvus ja omariiklus
ning mille käigus esitatud isamaalised
laulud ei kustu eestlaste kõrvust ja
südamest enne kui maapinnalt kaob
viimase kui eestlase jalajälg…
Slide 17
Sadly not. Out of the whole population of 1,3
million there are
2% UKRAINIANS
69% ESTONIANS
26% RUSSIANS
and altogether there are over one hundred
different nationalities living in Estonia, so
unless you are a multilinguist…
Slide 18
There’s an old Estonian saying – vara üles hilja
voodi nõnda rikkus majja toodi – up early, to
sleep late, gets you wealth and turns your faith.
We still try to prove it right by wearing ourselves out with
or FARMING
FISHING
or TEACHING
CHILDREN
Slide 19
The rest have found other ways for spending their days in
One can only guess which ones
are closer to wealth…
Slide 20
ACADEMIC HIGHER
EDUCATION
Obviously. It’s called lifelong learning.
HIGHER
EDUCATION
INSTITUTION
UNIVERSITY
VOCATIONAL
EDUCATION
UPPER
SECONDARY
EDUCATION
BASIC SCHOOL
AGE 7-17
COMPULSORY
KINDERGARTEN –
AGE 3-7
FAMILY
Estonian tree of education
Slide 21
Republic of Estonia
Declaration of Independence – 24 February 1918
Legislature – unicameral parliament – Riigikogu
Official language – Estonian
Population – 1 340 000
Area – 45 228 sq km
Capital – Tallinn
Currency – euro €
Member of: UN (since 17 October 1971)
NATO (since 29 March 2004)
EU (since 1 May 2004)
Slide 22
You mean, except the fact that Estonia is the
most beautiful and fascinating country in the
whole world and people who live there are
mostly quiet and modest, unless there’s a
football game going on where our national
team is out there facing some major football
experts or when 37 000 people are singing
together under the arc on song festival
grounds or during Midsummer Eve when every
Estonian vanishes into the woods on the
search of fern blossoms… not much… but –
COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELVES!
Slide 23
Useful links:
http://estonia.eu/
http://www.estonica.org/en/
http://www.visitestonia.com/en/about-estonia/estonian-culture/estonianlanguage
http://www.elfond.ee/en/what-we-do/estonian-nature
And thousand more…
This presentation has been compiled in the
framework of Comenius Multilateral School
Partnership project Let’s First Understand our
National Heritage in order to Define and Build our
European Identity by Lohusuu School in Estonia
OCTOBER 2013
What would people ask…
Slide 2
No, it isn’t. With an
area of 45 000 sq km
it is larger than
Denmark, Holland or
Switzerland and twice
a size of Slovenia.
Located in Northern
Europe beside the
Baltic Sea it streches
350km E-W and 240
km N-S
Slide 3
Sorry, but the nearest polar bears live 2000 km
further North. Estonia shares its latitude with
southern Sweden and northern tip of the
Scottish mainland
We do have sheep
though and
the best known
is Ruhnu Sheep
(maalammas)
Slide 4
That’s true! More than thousand small islands
scattered in Baltic Sea, most of them uninhabited,
providing an escape from civilization with their
Osmussaar
unique landscape and untouched nature
reserve.
Slide 5
There are of
course bigger
islands with
people and
towns and
cars and
buses… With its Sõrve Peninsula – Sõrve säär
The biggest of them is…
Slide 6
Well, that’s a myth,
of course, but
due to Estonian
location, we get
only 6 hours of
daylight in winter
as opposite to
‘white nights’ in
summer…
and during Midsummer Eve – who knows what
you can find when wandering around on Estonian
meadows…
Slide 7
Almost true. Although it’s a hill – 318m – we
call it Suur Munamägi - Big Egg Mountain and it is the highest peak in all Baltic region.
From observation tower one can have a view
of over 50km to every direction
Slide 8
No. That’s
Finland’s area
of expertise.
But – we do
have a fifth
largest lake in
Europe and it ESTONIA
acts like a
border between
Estonia and
Russian
Federation.
Fish included…
RUSSIA
Slide 9
First humans arrived on these lands some 11,000
years ago and they allegedly named Peipsi but we
are not sure who they really were…
Greek explorer Pythias mentions OSTIATOI in 320BC
Roman Tacitus writes about AESTI in the 1st century
Vikings named us AUSTERVEGR around 800 AD
During Swedish time we became ESTLAND
Our kindred nation knows us as VIRO
Southern neighbours name us IGAUNIJA
We ourselves call us EESTI
And mostly we are known as ESTONIA
Maybe because of an old myth…
Slide 10
…according to which the ancient
Estonians turned every visitor into
the rocks also known as STONES…
For that reason, people always
avoided going to Estonia, as its
people never changed their old
habits…
this is why there are so many
STONES all over ESTONIA…
Must be a very old visitor…
Slide 11
Indeed, we have had many kings ruling over us, like
Danish
Sigismund II
Valdemar
Augustus of
the Victorius
Poland
Gustav II
Adolf of
Sweden
Who founded University
of Tartu in 1632
… and
Aleksander II
of Russia
Slide 12
… but for the last 95 years we have tried to take
care of our country and people ourselves
Having first
Estonian
Republic in
1918-1940
Being Estonian
Soviet Socialist
Republic in
1940-1991
And getting the
second chance
as the Republic
of Estonia in
1991
Slide 13
‘Cause we sing all the time…
We had our first Song Festival already in 1869
And we
have not
been able
to stop
ever
since…
We sang through the first republic…
And through soviet times…
So… don’t ever
underestimate a
singing Estonian!
And in 1988 we
helped to regain
our independence
through Singing
Revolution…
Slide 14
Not really. 2/3 of Estonian population actually
lives in towns… as we don’t have cities…
Biggest of them being
our capital Tallinn
Followed by
university town
Tartu
And then some other more or
less bigger… villages
Slide 15
Oh yes. We have an especially great passion
towards vowels and words like TÖÖÖÖ
KUUUURIJAD ÕUEAIAÄÄRNE
explorers of
the Moon
work night
the edge of the place in
your garden which… oh
well… something…
which may sound
and seem like
jibberish but
carry an actual
meaning
JÄÄÄÄR
the edge of ice
not to mention 14 cases, different
for singular and plural,
three degrees of phonemic length,
36 diphthongs and… well… decide
for yourself
Slide 16
Tallinna vanalinnapäevade ajal toimusid
öised laulupeod, kus noorte inimeste
massid liikusid sinimustvalgeid lippe
kandes Lauluväljaku poole. Alul
stiihiline rahva omaalgatusel toimunud
üritus kasvas lõpuks välja Laulvaks
Revolutsiooniks, mille lõpptulemusena
taastati Eestis iseseisvus ja omariiklus
ning mille käigus esitatud isamaalised
laulud ei kustu eestlaste kõrvust ja
südamest enne kui maapinnalt kaob
viimase kui eestlase jalajälg…
Slide 17
Sadly not. Out of the whole population of 1,3
million there are
2% UKRAINIANS
69% ESTONIANS
26% RUSSIANS
and altogether there are over one hundred
different nationalities living in Estonia, so
unless you are a multilinguist…
Slide 18
There’s an old Estonian saying – vara üles hilja
voodi nõnda rikkus majja toodi – up early, to
sleep late, gets you wealth and turns your faith.
We still try to prove it right by wearing ourselves out with
or FARMING
FISHING
or TEACHING
CHILDREN
Slide 19
The rest have found other ways for spending their days in
One can only guess which ones
are closer to wealth…
Slide 20
ACADEMIC HIGHER
EDUCATION
Obviously. It’s called lifelong learning.
HIGHER
EDUCATION
INSTITUTION
UNIVERSITY
VOCATIONAL
EDUCATION
UPPER
SECONDARY
EDUCATION
BASIC SCHOOL
AGE 7-17
COMPULSORY
KINDERGARTEN –
AGE 3-7
FAMILY
Estonian tree of education
Slide 21
Republic of Estonia
Declaration of Independence – 24 February 1918
Legislature – unicameral parliament – Riigikogu
Official language – Estonian
Population – 1 340 000
Area – 45 228 sq km
Capital – Tallinn
Currency – euro €
Member of: UN (since 17 October 1971)
NATO (since 29 March 2004)
EU (since 1 May 2004)
Slide 22
You mean, except the fact that Estonia is the
most beautiful and fascinating country in the
whole world and people who live there are
mostly quiet and modest, unless there’s a
football game going on where our national
team is out there facing some major football
experts or when 37 000 people are singing
together under the arc on song festival
grounds or during Midsummer Eve when every
Estonian vanishes into the woods on the
search of fern blossoms… not much… but –
COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELVES!
Slide 23
Useful links:
http://estonia.eu/
http://www.estonica.org/en/
http://www.visitestonia.com/en/about-estonia/estonian-culture/estonianlanguage
http://www.elfond.ee/en/what-we-do/estonian-nature
And thousand more…
This presentation has been compiled in the
framework of Comenius Multilateral School
Partnership project Let’s First Understand our
National Heritage in order to Define and Build our
European Identity by Lohusuu School in Estonia
OCTOBER 2013