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Väike-Pääsukese (Väike-Pääsuke[ne])
Lesser swallow street. Another odd one. Like its bigger brother Pääsukese, the name is barely used, and the solitary street sign of its unpronounceable name is positioned in the most out-of-the-way place possible.
Teenri (Teener)
Servant. A narrow street no longer in existence (KNAB gives up to 1954, but does not appear on the Tallinn map Tallinna Linna Plaan 1922) between Kinga and Mündi, off Raekoja plats. Said to be named because location of various city notables’ business residences, but given its earlier names – Teendri (1885) and Dienerstraße (both: ‘servant’) and Russian Лакейская (Lakiejskaja, from Fr. laquais (footman or lackey), whence the English) – perhaps after the notables’ employees instead. Located somewhere behind Tallinn’s one-time Vaekoda (weigh-house, built 1554-54, burnt down 1945) and fire-station (±1780 – yeah).
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.
Via Baltica (Via Baltica)
Lit. the Baltic Way, or E67, a 1505-km highway originally running from Tallinn to Warsaw, now from Prague to Helsinki, not to be confused with the Baltic Way / Chain (‘way’ in Lithuanian [kelias] and Latvian [ceļš], ‘chain’ in Estonian [kett]), the demonstration of 1989-08-23 when some 2 million people from the above 3 countries formed a 690-km human chain from Tallinn to Vilnius on the 50th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, leading to their independence. August 23rd is now Black Ribbon Day, or European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism.
