Kilingi-Nõmme
Sign in to saveKilingi-Nõmme is a town in Pärnu County, southwestern Estonia. It is the administrative centre of Saarde Parish. It is located on the intersection of Valga–Uulu (Valga–Pärnu, no. 6) and Tartu–Viljandi–Kilingi-Nõmme (no. 92) roads, about from the Estonian border with Latvia.
Key facts
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- Kilingi-Nõmme
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- Town
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- The main street in Kilingi-Nõmme
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- Estonia
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- Location in Estonia
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- Estonia
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- County
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- Pärnu County
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- Municipality
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- Saarde Parish
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- First mentioned
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- 1560
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- Borough rights
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- 1919
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- Town rights
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- 1 May 1938
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Kilingi-Nõmme is a town in Pärnu County, southwestern Estonia. It is the administrative centre of Saarde Parish. It is located on the intersection of Valga–Uulu (Valga–Pärnu, no. 6) and Tartu–Viljandi–Kilingi-Nõmme (no. 92) roads, about from the Estonian border with Latvia.
==History== The settlement was first mentioned in 1560, when a manor named Ovelgunne (also Kurkund) belonging to the Schilling family was established. In 1789 a tavern was opened in the nearby Nõmme farmstead. Hence in the name "Kilingi-Nõmme", Kilingi derived from the Schilling surname. In the 1870s when most of the manor's land was handed out to Orthodox believers, the settlement started to develop faster. Local congregation was established in 1845, and a parish school three years later. Kilingi-Nõmme was then the centre of the surrounding Saarde Parish.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kilingi-Nõmme” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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