Tartu (est)

Tartu

Tartu ranks 302nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Berkeley, California, Daegu, and Hamamatsu. Memorable people born in Tartu include Emil Lenz, Alar Karis, and Adolf von Harnack. Memorable people who died in Tartu include Karl Ernst von Baer, Ferdinand von Wrangel, and Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald. Tartu has been the birth place of many politicians, and athletes and the death place of many writers, and biologists. Tartu is located in Estonia.

Tartu is the second largest city in Estonia after Tallinn. Tartu has a population of 97,759. It is 186 kilometres southeast of Tallinn and 245 kilometres northeast of Riga, Latvia. Tartu lies on the Emajõgi river, which connects the two largest lakes in Estonia, Lake Võrtsjärv and Lake Peipus. From the 13th century until the end of the 19th century, Tartu was known in most of the world by variants of its historical name Dorpat. Read more on Wikipedia