Viru väljak (Tallinn)
Viru Väljak (0): Viru Square, formerly known as Stalin Square, Russian market... The name Viru is very deep-rooted in the Estonian consciousness. Virland is mentioned in various Icelandic sagas, Viro is Finnish for Estonia, and Finnish vireä means lively, vivacious, hale and hearty, etc., so it may well have originated from self-designation as "true/real beings/people" (as opposed to the next-door neighbours) or, going further back, the Finno-Ugric proto word for "live", "life", *elä (questionably related to the Etruscan "vital", "lively", ala), cf. too, Hungarian elev-en, "lively". The Võru people/language in SE Estonia may well be derived from the same source. The two present-day counties of Ida-Viru and Lääne-Viru cover the approximate original homeland of the Vironians.
Viru väljak, related objects
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 59°26'13"N 24°45'13"E
- Viru Square 0.1 km
- Rotermann Quarter 0.2 km
- Viru Keskus shopping center 0.2 km
- Tammsaare Park 0.2 km
- Canute's Garden 0.3 km
- Kalamaja 1.5 km
- Kesklinn 2.6 km
- Põhja-Tallinn 3.8 km
- Tallinn Bay 12 km
- Harju County 13 km
- Roseni 0.2 km
- Rotermanni 0.3 km
- Poordi 0.6 km
- Tornimäe 0.6 km
- Kuunari 0.6 km
- Kesk-Kalamaja 1 km
- Reisijate 1.2 km
- Varre 2 km
- Töökoja 2.2 km
- Siduri 2.7 km