Nurga
Sign in to saveNurga is a village in Põltsamaa Parish, Jõgeva County in eastern Estonia.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Nurga
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Jõgeva County
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Parish
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Põltsamaa Parish
- Settlement.timezone
- EET
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +2
- Settlement.timezone_DST
- EEST
- Settlement.utc_offset_DST
- +3
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Encyclopedic overview
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Nurga is a village in Põltsamaa Parish, Jõgeva County in eastern Estonia.
==Name== Nurga was attested in historical sources as Norka in 1583, Nurkaperre (referring to a farm; cf. pere 'farm') in 1638, and Nurka M. (referring to the manor; cf. mõis 'manor') in 1797. The name is derived from the common noun nurk (genitive: nurga) 'corner; remote place'.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nurga” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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