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Aa is a village in northern Estonia, on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland in the eastern part of the Lüganuse Municipality of Ida-Viru County, 10 km from Lüganuse. Part of the village, including Aa Manor (German: Haakhof), is located on the North Estonian limestone shore. A village is a human settlement commonly found in rural areas. ...
The Baltic Sea The Gulf of Finland is an arm of the Baltic Sea that extends between Finland (to the north) and Estonia (to the south) all the way to the city of Saint Petersburg in Russia, where the river Neva drains into it. ...
Ida-Viru County or Eastern Virumaa (Estonian: Ida-Viru maakond or Ida-Virumaa) is one of the counties of Estonia. ...
The village is located on the territory of the Lüganuse Parish of the historical county of Virumaa. Virumaa (Vironia , Wierland) can mean Ida-Viru County or Eastern Virumaa - a county of Estonia Lääne-Viru County or Western Virumaa - a county of Estonia For prehistoric Estonian province and tribe, see Vironians. ...
The latest available population dates cite 173 and 191, in 1967 the population was 267. According to the 2000 census, the population was 190. The village features a home for aged people (in the former Aa Manor-house with a three-storied annex), a sand beach and the camp Giideon of the Estonian Methodist Church (a former young pioneer camp). In Aa used to be an elementary school. In the Soviet period, the village was part of the territory of the kolkhoz Ühisjõud. A kolkhoz listen? (Russian: колÑ
оÌз) was a form of collective farming in the Soviet Union that existed along with state farms or sovkhozes. ...
The home for aged (and disabled) people was established in 1924. In 1993 and 1998, some asylum seekers were taken there. In 1998, from the hotel Gabriel in Maardu 15 Iraqis were taken into the annex of the home. They stayed there until 2000 when they were placed into Illuka Centre of Asylum Seekers. Jump to: navigation, search 1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...
Jump to: navigation, search 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...
Power lines leading to a trash dump hover just overhead in El Carpio, a Nicaraguan refugee camp in Costa Rica Under international law, a refugee is a person who is outside his/her country of nationality or habitual residence; has a well-founded fear of persecution because of his/her...
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This article is about the year 2000. ...
Near the manor-house there are a former garden pavilion (now chapel), the Aa Park (the manor park; 65,000 m² nature protection area). Another worth seeing is Aa Pine Grove. A chapel is a private church, usually small and often attached to a larger institution such as a college, a hospital, a palace, or a prison. ...
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