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Toonela (Toonela)
Realm of the dead, exact location uncertain. Toone is either ‘ancestor’ or ‘realm of the dead’, too. In fact, this street leads SW to Tallinn’s cemetery area, bounded by Filtri, Magasini and Herne. Clockwise (sorta) from Toonela there are: Siselinna Kalmistu, the city (lit. ‘within-the-city’) cemetery, divided into Aleksander Nevski (W) and Kaarli (E) cemeteries, due S is the Kaitseväe (Defence Forces) cemetery with its Pronkssõdur (bronze soldier) statue of the Soviet soldier died fighting in Estonia. SW of that there used to be (all dates unchecked) a Muslim cemetery, with the rather inept German designation of Mohamed. Kirchhof, or Mohammedan Churchyard. Further west was an old Jewish cemetery in the fork at the southern end of Magasini and, lastly, NW is the location of the former Catholic cemetery, due W of a street once known as Surnuaia with all its attendant variations that you can read about here: Staadioni. Part of the street used to be called Roosi (rose), a slightly gentler name with perhaps a more human touch.
Veskimetsa (Veskimets) 
Mill woods, woods near/by the mill. Host to a a wind-themed group. See Veskimäe.
Tuuliku (Tuulik)
Windmill. At No.4c, there’s an Arvutimuuseum (computer museum). For those still blissfully unaware of the changes reshaping the world, think on this: you use computers, Estonia has a computer museum… One of a wind-themed group. See Veskilise.
Tiskre (Tiskre)
After the river, village and one-time manor house. Sub-district and residential area some 12 km west of Tallinn center. Parts of the street renamed (1995) as Jõeoti and Räime. Name first mentioned in 1522 as Tiszkeranne (Tiskre beach/shore) and in 1531 as Diskerkkulle (Tiskre village), from the MLG name Discher, probably related to modern German Tischler, carpenter or furniture maker. This is where the facts stop and go for a beer. For some, up until the 16th C (and the dates do match quite well), the river was recorded as Lafddienpäh or Laddenpähe, likely due to historian error (see Lahepea), and ignoring the other suggestion of a one-time name of Kivioja will spare me another session of self-inflicted retinal detachment. Since you’re desperate to know, the river Tiskre runs 4.6 km from Harku lake to Kakumäe bay, also acting as city border in Tallinn’s early history.
