Spithami

Spithami () is a village in Lääne-Nigula Parish, Lääne County, in northwestern Estonia. It was inhabited by Estonian Swedes until World War II. During Soviet rule it was a military area in which civilian entry was banned.

In the Vinony graph

Vinony's link graph records 124 inbound references to Spithami, and connects out to Lääne-Nigula Rural Municipality, Estonia and World War II.

The entry is geolocated on the map in city, across 2 mapped points.

Vinony files it under Kreis Wiek, Lääne-Nigula Parish and Villages in Lääne County.

Vinony links it to 11 Wikipedia language editions.

Key facts

Settlement.official_name: Spithami
Settlement.settlement_type: Village
Settlement.image_caption: Põõsaspea cape in Spithami
Settlement.image_skyline: Põõsaspea neem, Osmussaar.jpg
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: County
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Lääne
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Parish
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Lääne-Nigula
Settlement.timezone: EET
Settlement.utc_offset: +2
Settlement.timezone_DST: EEST
Settlement.utc_offset_DST: +3

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Wikidata facts

Country: Estonia
Located in: Noarootsi Rural Municipality
Population: 8
Area: 11.347
Image: Põõsaspea neem, Osmussaar.jpg

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Commons category: Spithami
postal code: 91220
P8168: Line 4

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Encyclopedic overview

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Earlier forms of the village's name include Spithaven, Spithave, Spithaff (all mentioned in 1514), Spythave (1564), Spiuthampn, Spithaven (both 1565) and Spiuthambre (1798). In Estonian, the village has been also called Põõsaspea (mentioned as Põesapi in 1922) before moving to the current form, which is an Estonian spelling of the original Swedish toponym. Nowadays the name Põõsaspea only indicates a nearby cape situated inside the village's borders.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Spithami” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.