Estonia
Bronze Age stone-cist graves in north Estonia
Kuressaare Castle in Saaremaa dates back to the 1380s
"Academia Dorpatensis" (now University of Tartu) was founded in 1632 by King Gustavus as the second university in the kingdom of Sweden. After the king's death it became known as "Academia Gustaviana".
Carl Robert Jakobson played a key role in the Estonian national awakening.
The Red Army troops moving into military bases in Estonia in October 1939, after the Soviet Union had forced Estonia to sign the Bases Treaty.
The capital Tallinn after bombing by the Soviet Air Force during the war on the Eastern Front in March 1944
A ship with Estonian Swedes fleeing west from the Soviet invasion (1944)
Estonian partisans, the "Forest Brothers".
In the Baltic Way on 23 August 1989, two million people formed a human chain across three countries in a mass demonstration against the Soviet occupation.
Satellite image of Estonia
