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Lilleküla (Lilleküla) 
Flower village, a Sub-district inhabited, oddly, more by bird street-names, but some flowers and random volatile spare parts too. With 50+ streets, this is almost certainly the largest street-name zone in Tallinn, covering the Sub-districts of Lilleküla, Mooni and parts of Tondi.
Nunnadetagune torn (0) 
Lit. behind the nuns. The nuns in question being those of the Cistercian convent of St Michael, Püha Miikaeli klooster, which used to be (1249-1629) within the perimeter of Kooli, Aida, Lai, Suur-Kloostri and Gümnaasiumi. In 1543, the year which European historians usually consider the switch point between the Middle-Ages and Rennaissance, its abbot, Elsebe Soye, converted to Lutheranism. In 1631, it was ceded to Tallinn City for use as a school, changing its name since then 15 times, including a 5-day spin in February 1918 as Töörahva Valitsuse Tallinna Poeglaste Gümnaasium, or Tallinn working-people’s government boys’ school, ending up as today’s Gustav Adolfi Gümnaasium, one of whose alumni was the short-lived Bengt Gottfried Forselius (±1660-1688), teacher, founder of peasant schools and spelling reformer, then in 1922 its eastern wing went full monty and converted into a Saku beer bottling-plant (see Odra). Sic transit gloria bloody mundi. See next entry Nunnatorn.
Pikk Jalg (0)
First recorded as longus mons (1342), this is perhaps the clearest indication of what a jalg is geographically. Since Estonian doesn’t specifically differentiate leg from foot (see, e.g., Sõnajala), what’s referred to here is the ‘foot’ of a ‘mountain’, and hence the road that led up to the linnus or citadel at the top of the hill. XXX Revise!
Viru värav (Viru)
Earliest records (prob. 14th C) give this as porta argillae and Lemporte or Leimporte, later evolving to Lehmpforte and Глиняные ворота, all meaning clay gate (see Kopli for discussion of possible related implications), and then to Нарвские ворота or Narva gate. XXX Revise
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