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Tehumardi (Tehumardi)

Village in southern Saaremaa where a brutal battle between Russians and Germans was the beginning of the end of German presence on the island. Monument erected in 1967. Village first recorded in 1645 as Theomarte after a farm based on two names: Theo, via Tehu, from an abbreviation of Stefanus, and Marte, prob. from Martinus. Soviet occupation renaming (1979-1995) of Vilisuu.