Sõjamäe (Sõjamägi)

Tricky, literally War Hill, its meaning could range from Soldiers’ Knoll, Martial Mountain, Battle Bump, to Bruise. Military vantage point / observation post sounds good too (see Mäe for discussion). Most faithful, however, is Battle Hill, named after what is believed to be the site of a battle following the Jüriöö Ülestõus (St. George’s Night Uprising) of 1343-04-23 where the Teutonic Order killed some 3000 Estonians in an orgy of attrition and revenge (see Lasnamäe). Streets today come in all sizes: Väike-Sõjamäe, Kesk-Sõjamäe and Suur-Sõjamäe, formerly V-, K & S-Weimarschofi after manor house belonging to master butcher Johann Weymar (1815), but native Estonians long preferred the Sõjamäe variants or even, according to TT, in the 18^th C, Tapomäe, where Tapo seems to come from tapp:tapa, slaughter or murder. To trivialize the uprising, the German overlords renamed or nicknamed Sõjamäe as Seamäe (Pig Hill), Schweinsberg in German, sometime in the 19^th C. The name can still be seen on the 1914 map of Tallinn accompanying Baedeker’s Russia, with Teheran, Port Arthur, and Peking; handbook for travellers. Sure, that worked…